• macattack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hard to feel sorry for anyone actively putting money in Tesla/Musk’s pocket @ this point

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    I still don’t get why people buy Tesla products. You know what they’re like now. What are you doing?

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        Personally, I’d never buy a Tesla because of how much of a pain they are to get repaired. Have to go to their service centers. You can’t just go to some local repair place.

        The nearest local center to me is about a 2-hour drive away. So firstly the car needs to function enough to actually get to the repair center, and then secondly I’m stuck there until they fix the car or I get a pickup to come home. Meanwhile, practically every other car I can just take to a local place and walk back home in 10 minutes.

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          I will say that where you live makes a huge difference for this. I’m in a major metro area and I’ve never had to take it to a service center; they always come to my house. Having pretty much always lived here, I can’t really speak for living more rurally or even small-town but I’d guess there are other concessions one would make living there (just as we make concessions with our traffic, COL and distance to open space). But in this case it definitely hurts adoption from those areas.

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        same, i actually love the car it’s been super reliable and it’s fun to drive. But having Musk rats dirty image attached to it makes me cringe every time i look at it.

        I’m just hoping he somehow leaves Tesla and we can wash it clean somehow.

        But as it stands ill never buy another Tesla.

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        I don’t feel embarrassed but when I bought mine it was far and away the best value. Now there’s many more options and teslas are priced way higher than them. I’ve tried out a couple of them and my next car probably won’t be a Tesla due to price more than anything.

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          I’m curious what you’ve looked at? In New England and as a snowboarder, AWD and high range are both requirements and I’m not seeing anything cheaper than the Model 3 unfortunately.

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            I am in Canada and at the time I hadn’t skied before so that wasn’t a concern. But there was the leaf and the bolt really were the only 2 other available cars. And the base model 3 was only about 3-5k more than the others and it had a better range and the supercharger network so for me it made no sense to get anything besides the model 3

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        Also wasn’t there also a contravorcy about how their heaters didn’t work in cold weather.

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    after submitting a $122,135 order

    The buyer told us that he paid a $250 order fee on Friday and previously paid a $100 reservation fee.

    Tesla doesn’t have to refund those types of fees if a buyer cancels

    You have to pay $350 to get the privilege to fork over a hundred and twenty grand? My jaw literally dropped.

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      You forget we live in a society where we have bought tickets and raffles for the chance of being able to buy Air Jordans or Yeezys or w/e fuck shoe that did that.

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          I’ve been wearing the same two pairs of shoes for about 4 years now. I thought one pair was failing earlier in the year, but the glue repair held and I’ve continued to wear them.

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      Yes and an overwhelming amount of people love doing it.

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      This guy needs snow tires. You should also put snow tires for this condition even if it’s AWD, right ? Maybe even chains for an off-road slope?

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        Yes, if you’re going off-road like that. Apparently these “trucks” also don’t have assist points to pull them from. Notice the straps are hooked to the front suspension or something.

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          They must have time down points otherwise you couldn’t tow them - and I believe they need to be towed for pretty much any repairs.

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      I’m pretty sure that’s a RWD CyberTruck, which would explain a lot. That said, I fucking hate this car and Elon can suck it.

      Edit:

      Maybe it is AWD. Seems like the power is applied with more to rear than front.

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      Imagine getting a RWD and treating it like an AWD because you are a dumbass

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    Are you able to return it if you dislike, or are you just fucked?

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Tesla has revived a contract clause that says the electric carmaker could sue Cybertruck buyers for $50,000 or more if they resell during their first year of ownership.

    As we reported a month ago, the Cybertruck-only clause was added to the public version of Tesla’s Motor Vehicle Order Agreement Terms & Conditions and then deleted after the lawsuit threat attracted some attention.

    The clause says Cybertruck buyers must offer the car back to Tesla at a reduced price before any attempt to resell the vehicle within one year of delivery.

    "You agree that in the event you breach this provision, or Tesla has reasonable belief that you are about to breach this provision, Tesla may seek injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the Vehicle or demand liquidated damages from you in the amount of $50,000 or the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater.

    People who made early Cybertruck reservations received their invitations to order the limited-availability Foundation Series edition on Friday.

    As an Electrek article notes, it’s unclear whether the clause applies only to the Foundation Series version of the Cybertruck.


    The original article contains 545 words, the summary contains 190 words. Saved 65%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      So, offer the car back to Tesla at 1 cent under purchase price, then sell to whoever you like if they refuse to buy it…

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    Just throw this shit up on Rocket League and end the line already. I think I already have those wheels.

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    The whole Tesla truck thing really reminds me of the DMC DeLorean fiasco. Is musk imitating John DeLorean? He’s falling about as fast. Both are silver and look weird.

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        Worst reboot ever, instead of randomly shutting off during crucial scenes it randomly takes over controls and runs over Red. “Crazy drunk AI”

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      That’s what I was thinking. If Elon throws a lot of money at advertising he might sell some.

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    I really do not care - Musk and Cybertruck are way overrepresented here

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    I can’t wait to see one of these dumpster fires on the street. I need a good laugh!

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    He backed off exactly enough for a couple consumers to notice he backed off and talk about it to a few people.

    Then went right back to it and nobody cared, because that’s the social media news cycle.