Love to see it! Good time to post my recent Tesla story: family member passed away a year ago and I got their car - older Tesla Model S that was in mint condition and had free charging for life. So I had a free car and could essentially drive it for free (ignoring insurance). Lot of nice features on it, but was clear that Tesla doesn’t do the basics of car building very well. Bit noisy, a rattle here and there, exterior trim pieces that are a little loose, and window seals that drip when you go through the car wash. Not even going to go into their software, which is pretty shitty. Basically a lot of things that look nice at first glance, but kinda janky when you look more closely. Nuts that that was a $100k car when purchased new - doesn’t seem to fit with reality. Anywho, I listed it for a while on Craigslist because I wanted off of the Tesla rollercoaster (for loads of reasons - Elmo, future stability of Tesla which is unknown, and having the weight around my neck of a car that I might not ever be able to get rid of in the future). Played the Craigslist game for a little while and then decided because of the tariffs coming to just go the trade-in route. Went in and traded it for a Mach E, which so far, I’m liking. Seems like a better-made car all around, is just as fast as the Tesla, and has more bells and whistles for half the price. The Ford dealership was starting to look like a Tesla dealership - the salesman said that loads of people were doing the same thing I was, including him - he had one but still had a loan to pay off but he wanted to swap his as well. He said he didn’t want my car but was willing to take the trade in to make the sale, so worked out for me. What was also great is that the Hands Off protest was happening the same day right in front of the dealership (Tesla was a block up), so we listened to the sweet sounds of shouts and car horns while we did paperwork. Good stuff.
Should also note that with the exception of the Cyberdumpster owners (probably beyond help), just remember that there are lots of Teslas on the road and each of those drivers have a different story. I’m all for civil disobedience (it’s definitely needed right now), but many of those owners just aren’t in a position to sell/burn/destroy/dump their Tesla. Cars are expensive, and now more than ever, we’re probably going to need to drive them as long as possible to get our money’s worth out of them. I was in a lucky situation with mine so I could get rid of it, but just have compassion for those who can’t.
I was part of the Tesla Takedown and can confirm there were a lot of tesla drivers honking and supporting us. 100% of the cyber-dump-truck drivers were hateful.
We had a single CyberTruck honk at us Saturday. It was a surprise to be sure.
Don’t vandalize Tesla drivers’ cars, they’re self-vandalizing. I hate redundancy.
Oh, I’d like to hear more about the Mach-e. I’ve only seen a few, but they look decent enough.
Go test drive one. Just don’t bring your checkbook.
I imagine Trump will buy the useless cyberdumpsters and give them to cops to use. They are such badly engineered and frequently broken POS’s I wouldnt even mind. Let “law enforcement” deal with them.
god i hope every cop cuts themselves on the edges
That would just make it so minorities will be driven around in that death box.
You got me there.
I will feel a lot better when their stock price goes much, much, much lower. Sure they are down 40+% in the past 3 months, but they were WAY too high prior to that.
Their P/E should be in the single digits if they were like most American companies. Until I see that, I’ll know that they are nothing but a fucking chud memestock.
What’s going to be really funny, is when it becomes worthless.
See, most of Elon’s money is in Tesla Stock, stock that he manipulated by telling tall tales of colonizing Mars.
In order to buy Twitter he had to take out a loan for the money and use his Tesla stock as collateral. Now, the thing about that is, the stock is only able to serve this purpose because it’s worth so much. If it wasn’t, then Elon basically defaults on the loan.
This means he will no longer own Twitter, his bank will.
He’ll be forced to sell SpaceX to cover the loans.
They’re still up 25% year on year.
That was an insane rally and crash though.
I wonder if the cybertruck will be the Delorian of the future.
Well no, it won’t because people actually like the Delorian due to it being redeemed by one of the greatest time travel movies ever made.
Here me out. What if they remaster back to the future and the plutonium guys at the beginning drive a cybertruck instead of the white truck?
Looper, right? /s
Probably not, the Delorean was pretty cool even when it was new, I believe.
Also, a Cybertruck is massively complex, so keeping an old one running would be difficult.
Like an iconic vehicle they make movies about?
Well, it is iconic and will be used as a metaphor years from now when people start making movies of this era.
They won’t find a single one to film.
On the global scale the Cybertruck is an incredibly niche American thing.
It’s only ever sold 40 something thousand units since 2023. That’s ridiculously low.
For comparison, Toyota sells some 11 million vehicles a year globally. And just in the United States, Porsche yearly sells some 70k units. That 40k Cybertrucks is from three fiscal years
Yeah but it is famous loke the pinto, anf easy to recognize loke the delorean, and easy to make a prop version of.
The fuck is a ‘loke’?
Like. I and o are next to each other on the keyboard
They can make replicas
Sure slapping a few pizza boxes together and painting it silver would make a convincing enough replica, but why would anyone bother?
To make a movie.
No no. Why would anyone bother to put one in their movies in 20 years?
That’s like saying they’d have people wearing Apple Vision Pro’s in 20 years. Why? Wasn’t a big product. Just an overhyped one which utterly failed.
Perhaps as a meme to how shit it is but it’s definitely not “iconic to the era”.
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More probably the Edsel or Yugo, but with the quality of a Lada.
Well, the production of the cybertruck certianly smashed the delorean.
Has any other car manufacturer ever had a similar policy of not accepting their own vehicles as trade-ins?
No other major manufacturers sell directly to customers so no. Dealerships don’t care as long as you’re buying something. Many cars they take as trade wind up going straight to auction.
What is that trade-in? You give your old car to get a discount for a new? How does it work? Why does it work? I do I understood this completely wrong?
Did you think people threw thier cars out when they bought a new one?
That’s exactly how it works, and the dealer usually gives you a decent deal on the trade in, to make a sale.
It saves a huge amount of hassle for the buyer.
No. Dealerships might have said “we have too many EVs right now” to you if you came in with your Nissan Leaf when there was an over-supply. But the idea that the entire manufacturer is blanket not accepting their own car, that new.
Many Cybertruck owners reported trying to trade-in the truck for a new vehicle
It only came out in November 2023! They’re already trying to trade it in? Seems like that’s it’s own sign of problems.
Some owners who have had their trucks in service for extended periods of time
NOVEMBER 2023!!! Nobody has had a one of these dumpsters for an extended period of time!
It only came out in 2023, and it’s already been recalled 8 times.
It’s pretty common for wealthy people to trade in their car every year or two, keeping in mind that a cyber truck is 80k+ the demographic is people who can afford to always have a new car.
Thats hilarious
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Nobody has had a one of these dumpsters for an extended period of time!
Multiple milliseconds in some cases.
The swastikar idiots need to be called out constantly. They know exactly what they are doing. There are no coincidences. These are the willing participants in the far right agenda….
If they could afford a Tesla in the first place, they can afford to replace it.
I dont know about afford, surely there’s some idiot who took out a loan for this
my ex worker with a guy who took out a 90k loan for some other shitty backleds SUV and literally had to get a second job to pay for it. think started to break down like two months later lmao
There was Dealership near me that had a bunch of their teslas keyed and damaged and smashed. Curious. Now that dealership can claim insurance money on the cars he can’t sell!
Maybe but it is up 17% right now. Are investors really this stupid?
This relates to the “zigzagging spikyness” you often see with the stock market. Each time a stock falls, many people are going to ask themselves “Hey, do I think that other people are wrong about this property being worthless? Maybe this is a good chance to buy, before they bounce back.”
There’s a mental appeal to the middle, it’s just a question of what the correct “middle” is. That’s also why many investors were cautioning people against selling during Trump’s week-long tariffs (of course, if you believe the USA is on its last legs, that may be a good idea). You’re probably seeing those purchases from those that feel the Tesla Takedowns will run out of steam, which is why it’s important to keep them up.
How do you think previous recessions happened? They are gambling with other people their money.
The whole internet seems happy about the “people” burning Teslas in protest. I am pretty sure they were all insured and given the terrible sales figures… please guess who is benefitting the most of that burning?
Having to make a ton of insurance claims is not a good thing.
Eventually you become uninsurable, which is a lot harder to overcome than a sales slump.
This comment has no logic… yes, maybe Tesla itself is not at a loss due to vandalism here but insurance companies would drop either Tesla (the company) as a client or deny insurance to people buying Swasticars which would make the sales slump into a sales halt
This is really bad for Tesla either way if you are willing to look 1 mm beyond
You are right, but there probably is a “safe” number of Teslas that can burn, before insurance companies drop Tesla (or increase insurance prices to make it unprofitable).
Insurance frauds, if not caught, tend to be profitable.
Edit: I just want to add that I do not have any personal experience with insurance frauds… It’s just my little conspiracy theory… I won’t respond anymore, must go and make my first tinfoil cap.
Insurance fraud is really hard to hide, that’s the first thing insurance companies investigate, particularly if the claimant is a car dealership. This has been a popular criminal activity for decades, my uncle used to pull this scam with his motorcycle club, they all got caught.
Insurance isn’t going to pay out it’s $700 billion market cap. If this keeps up, Tesla the company won’t exist any longer.
Insurance companies raised rates on teslas
lol
lmfao even!
despite claiming
I claim myself the Glorious Leader of the Solar System. I tried to demand the Sun to fry a little less but… I’ll try again later.
In a few decades we’ll get a new Back to the Future movie.
Doc, you made a time machine, out of a cybertruck?
If this baby hits 88mph you’re gonna see some serious shit…fall off.
I saw one yesterday in the wild. It’s unusual for where I live, we’re not rich here, and being a blue state, we’re not stupid, either.
Surprisingly, it still had all of it’s body panels intact.
I want to hear a documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, about the wild Cybertrucks.
“As the Cybertruck sleeps, it is blissfully unaware of the approaching storm. If the thunder doesn’t wake it soon enough, it may succumb to its greatest existential threat: wetness. In the bushes, a Patriot rattles a paint can.”
Thanks. That’s brilliant!
Unfortunately, you’ll need to settle for Whistlin Diesel for now.
Although, it was pretty entertaining in a Jackassian Park kind of way.
Imagine fire bombing Teslas and keying them just because you don’t like Musk. How sad and cult-like is that. Domestic terrorism must be worth the 20 year sentence just to hurt Musk indirectly but at the same time, most likely harming your fellow Democrats who drive the ELECTRIC VEHICLE. The man who helped popularize the EVs is now your enemy. The same EVs that Biden pushed a mandate for.
That is a cult. There can be 2 different cults, ya know. The one you’re in, and the one you despise.
Imagine being such a bootlicker billionaire fascist worshipper that you can’t understand what is happening.
e: Quick trip through your comment history shows this is all you do. Defend trump’s actions. Probably if I dug back far enough you’d be attacking the push for EV, but it’s amusing watching you defend them now. Blocked.
I’d be hurt if you actually knew what fascism is. Sucks that you’re not successful enough to be a billionaire but begrudge those who are.
Imagine selling EV’s to a group of people then surprised Pikachu facing when you turn your back on them and tell them they are infected by empathy and a “woke mind virus.”
Imagine being so full of yourself that you Nazi salute away your entire international sales because guess what, the rest of the world doesn’t think it’s funny either.
Imagine.
You’re gay but not in the fun way.
I surprised you didn’t bring up trans athletes to defend your opinion
Cry more.
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