Nope, same deal with me also on Mobile Chrome.

Yeah, I get the idea totally for appliance cars, it just doesn't fit well with an M5.

Yep, I see this all the time with premium cars. Their car body might be clean, but the brake dust on the wheels is fairly obvious.

It's the same reason why cars still have fake grills and vents, people are used to seeing them and find it harder to accept when they are missing.

Yeah, ironically an electric M5 likely would be much lighter and perform better. Or on the flip side, I’m not sure what is the point of adding so much PHEV range. This makes this neither fish nor fowl, which has been a long running issue with PHEVs.

For Europe, maybe they have initiatives against one time use products (like paper cups like is more common here), so they provide mugs instead.

I think most offices there are office supplies that mysteriously disappear, although typically not this blatantly.

Using the passive voice makes it sound like there was no one in the car when in fact the driver was there the whole time. It reminds me of the whole BMW tire pressure post that got famous here (owner also used a passive voice to make it sound like he wasn’t the one driving).

I don’t know if this applies to this particular department, but there are some that have a hard time finding replacement because no one wants to be a cop in their department, so they give a ton of leeway. Bad cops also would tend to get into those departments even if they are unwanted elsewhere.

Again it depends on what you are hauling. The sedan having technically more cubic feet matters when you are hauling cargo that fits in the opening (as is the case for airport runs or road trips). So it may have more “cargo room” in that regard.

The article claims the sedan is 4 inches longer than the hatchback. I think that is true of the 2023 model, as the sedan is 184 inches, and the hatch is 179 inches. The 2024 model the hatchback and sedan is the same length in the spec, but not sure where that length came from.

I think he is pointing out that most sedans are longer than hatchbacks of the same model, with most of the extra length going behind the rear wheels, which means the trunk of the sedan is actually longer and better fit for cargo like suitcases, when making a trip with both rows occupied.

But investors look at the numbers from the automaker and not the registration numbers. Yes, sometimes they match, but they may not always match because of how inventory shifts.

It matters because, as I calculated in the other article, that $50 billion in options ends up around $13 billion after accounting for options exercise cost/federal taxes/historic price drops from his previous sales, which lowers the amount of estimated base model 3s he can buy to around 300k or less than a quarter’s…

Beating expectations even by that little amount is important because it means the layoffs didn’t impact sales as much as some predicted.

You are missing the point. Those registration numbers have nothing to do with the EV sales numbers we see reported by automakers. Their numbers are based on deliveries to dealers, not actual vehicles that are sold to an end user. That gives a lot of room for inflating actual demand vs actual consumer sales, which is…

Putting aside the stock options he has are not actually money (there is a long discussion there, basically he has to spend money to exercise them, pay a ton of tax; long story short look up how he paid for Twitter), if he got his other companies to buy Teslas, those are actual sales!

It’s much harder for Tesla to fake delivery numbers, because they are based on actual delivery to customers. There are multiple Tesla sales trackers out there that track the numbers via registrations and they have always matched well, with predictions also matching well. Heck there are even drones flying above Tesla…

Tesla did better than expected even with reduced percentage of sales and with mass layoffs. Also if the layoffs gets the costs down, they may have a decent quarter, despite lower volume. The other thing the market is excited for is the 8/8 robotaxi unveiling.

I thought it was bricked, seems like it is just like the typical case however of an overconfident new owner of a SUV or pickup that decides to show off when they don’t know what they are doing, where they ended up getting rescued.