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maybe they should focus on making a decent product instead of manufacturing bs
Well Musk is spending most of his time breaking Xitter lately so maybe the Tesla guys can get some good stuff done while he's distracted.
Probably not. Tesla is very dysfunctional as an org. He flattened it so much, and hasn’t appointed a real leader, while he’s distracted I bet they’re basically in a holding pattern.
He motivated them by setting insane goals then driving them insanely hard and sleeping in the office and shit.
If he’s not doing that, the company is, pardon the pun, on autopilot. Watch out for stopped emergency vehicles.
he’s been at it for a while, and Tesla hasn’t improved any, so don’t know...
It takes a long time for changes to trickle through the system.
But yeah, it's probably not going to happen.
The products are decent. Just that there are a lot more competitions that make much better cars.
I wouldn’t call a $40,000 car whose panels fly off on the highway, decent
What if that car can drive you straight into a wall with the power of AI?
That does sweeten the pot
I'm sold
Teslas are the most recalled vehicles on the market.
over the course of 30 years*. people rarely keep cars for that long, let alone an EV. by year 10 most EVs will be clapped as fuck you might just have to sell it for scrap metal
fact is Teslas still represent good value if you're just after a base Model Y and 3. they're are OK, average, decent.
fit and finish is far from German counterparts but if you don't care, and don't want a Chinese EV either you're left with Tesla.
Well, I’d say the value of the Tesla isn’t the car at all, it’s in being the first to popularize Evs, the brand they’ve built, and in the recharging network they’ve built.
As far as the cars go theres just too many reported problems. Take the above things away and you’re left with just an ok car. Why would you invest all that money in something that’s just ok, especially when you can go to the nearest competitor who not only has way more money and experience in the industry but can produce a cheaper more reliable product. Not to mention the fact that they have the dealerships across the country to handle their vehicles and perform maintenance.
Where tesla shined really was in how the brand became associated with success and quality, and in how large a recharging network they built. Nobody else has come close to achieving either. With musk acting like a dumbass they’ve lost the it factor. Should have been obvious with the cyber truck. Elon basically acted out that episode of the simpsons where homer bankrupts his brothers car company by designing a hilariously bad car. They do still have the charging network, and I think that value cannot be understated, but in 10 years ev charging will become ubiquitous and that won’t matter.
Tesla was at its peak when musk mostly shut the fuck up and pretended to be the ambitious billionaire genius focused on the betterment of humanity.
Now it’s clear that space Karen was little more than a guy who got extremely lucky in the early dot com days and amassed an insane fortune. Strip elon of his wealth and ask him to do it again and he would never be able to.
It’s sad too, I wanted to get a Tesla but now there’s just no way. Not when Space Karen can just auto install some update that requires I pay a subscription to use the ac. Fuck that shit, too unreliable.
depending on where you live, here in Australia some states have very strong tax incentive. So strong to the point whereby even an Accord or Sonata is priced similarly. For those that do not care about all these dramas or the technicalities of ownership the Model Y and 3 are both really good cars.
i personally wouldn't get one tho, if i had spend so much money i'll probably save a bit more and get a used GR Supra or Civic Type R.
As used cars, they aren’t very attractive for 2 big reasons.
Repair facilities and even just new parts are rare and can take months to book (which is a problem for new teslas as well).
But a bigger problem is that Tesla iterates parts designs, so if you have a used Tesla and the door handle breaks, you might not be able to get the right part to repair it, or you might need to make a series of other changes for it to work.
When you buy a Tesla, your buying a test mule that is a work in progress. That’s why most car companies spend 3+ years developing traditional vehicles before coming to market. And they used decades of institutional experience and known good components instead of attempting to reinvent it all (even the manufacturing process, which Tesla learned hard lessons about early on).
A friend of mine rented a 2023 Tesla recently. He said there was a visible air gap between the trunk lid and the body of the car. That's decent to you?
lol, do you mean panel gaps? that has more to do with manufacturing process. I'm more referring to the features they provide for the price they're selling at. They're decent.
I can assure you, cars can get a lot less decent than Teslas.... Korean cars in the early 2000s for example...
So they have decent features, they're just built like shit. Great selling point.
they have higher than reported number of build failures, such as presence of panel gap but that does not indicate ALL of them come like that.
McLaren and Maseratis spring to mind, and have similar traits. It does not make them shit cars at all.
No one said all of them came like that. Enough of them come like that that it is a widely-reported issue. They're built like shit.
I’ve checked them out in the showroom, the fit and finish when they’re not built like shit is actually alright.
I personally have never ever noticed Teslas which YUUUUUGE panel gaps either. And they are popular where I live.
They are decent cars still like I said. Talking about the base model. You cannot possibly find a better EV or RWD car at that budget where I live.
Even a base C200 or 320i cost a lot more than the base model 3. Like 25-40% as much. If that is not decent I don’t know what is.
The cars they showed at a recent event had loose window trim and doors that didn’t close properly (one back door required a slam to close).
These were teslas that were brought and prepared by a dealer and still shoddy products.
And FYI I drive a Toyota myself, it’s handmade in a special factory and the fit and finish is absolutely horrible.
But somehow within the Toyota and the greater car community people always give it a pass because it’s a ToyOTa
Huh. I drive a Toyota too and it's great. Best car I've ever owned. So I guess both Toyota and Tesla make great cars because of our personal anecdotes, right?