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I know i would get made fun of for this but a good price is a good price. I would pay $15,000 for one. I think most people would.

Edit 2 min later - I thought better of it. No i still wouldn't want it. I wouldn't trust Tesla not to hack it at some point and take it over.

yeah, if nobody wants them, then they are worth 0 dollars net

You could definitely sell those for more than $0. The batteries alone aren't cheap.

Can't wait to meet the successor to M1 Abrams: the M2 Sad Tin Can.

So your saying one will be able to avoid ICE by simply escaping on days when its raining?

Their demise was absolutely due to lack of popularity. In December '81 they had produced 7,000 units and sold 3,000. I'd argue that they failed for the same reason Fiero did -- they looked like a sports car but were not. Top speed was 110mph. 0-60 time was 10.5 seconds. It had a V-6 that put out 130hp in a car with a curb wt of 2700 lbs. 0-60 time was measured at 10.5 seconds. To put that in perspective, about the same as a 99 Ford F-350 Super Duty Crew Cab 4x4 Dually or 73 LTD Brougham. There are virtually no modern cars that run 0-60 that slow. A 2024 5.3l Suburban has a time of 7.0

In addition, they had numerous quality control problems. This in a car that retailed for $25k or the rough equivalent of $86,000 in today's dollars. While it's probably true that nobody despised the car, it was not a good car. They were definitely cool sitting in a parking lot but getting spanked by a 1980 Chevy Citation (0-60 10.3) is not a good look

If the stock market had anythign to do with logic Tesla wouldn't be worth more than all other car manufacturers combined

They really should use the number of units. If Musk cranks the price from 80k to 120k, they suddenly have $1.2B sitting there? It's the same 10,000 ugly-ass pieces of shit.

I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It's neither of those things.

That's 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.

Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they've ran through that by March.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

There is only one single core belief in fascism. There must be an “in” group that the state protects, and an “out” group that the state oppresses. There are zero other rules. This means that the definition of the in group is completely arbitrary and fluid based on what helps the strongman at the top. If you ever question the definition of the in group, you are automatically part of the out group.

Strip out the bad stuff

What's left after that?