Tesla Talk

They have been nerfing prices for some time now. At some point you're going to have to realise that strategies that work for halo cars won't work in mass market. You can't buy a car in the family segment if you can't finance it, and finance companies often won't offer finance or lease if the market value keeps dropping. There's a whole lot of handbacks to happen this year of model Y purchased at 80k where the GFMV is significantly higher than retail. Same for model 3s towards the end of the year. At the end of the 3 year pcp cycle.

**** or get off the pot time for Tesla. 1.5 aging models was never going to keep the money rolling in forever. They need new models (not just refreshes) ASAP - but zero sign of this happening... And not much left to trim off the price either.

Tesla had their best ever quarter in terms of deliveries and that was achieved with people holding off ordering Model Y awaiting release of revised Mod Y in early 2025 I am not sure I agree with the "downward trend" label .

They are on a brilliant roll, no doubt about it.

Juniper sales will push MY up to #2 by the end of this year.

Tesla doesn't need another car in the lineup - they have the best selling family saloon and the best selling SUV already - keep those two rolling forward with tweaks and feature evolution OTA and you have a winning formula for years into the future.

The biggest problem with the Cybertruck (apart from the looks - imo 🤣) was the decision to make it from one of the most unworkable metals around. This made it extremely costly which put it outside the reach of a lot of potential buyers.

And then all the ensuing problems with production, quality/safety issues and a design that makes it very hard to sell into Europe without significant changes.

This ^^
I might add USS too just to make it a great offering.

Seems like a no brainer even if it adds 1 or 2k to the base price it would still be the market leader.

The lack of stalks alone must be excluding a huge market of potential buyers me included!

I haven’t but do plan to take one for a test drive.

Have you?

Good thing I am a real inconsiderate driver and barely used my indicators otherwise I would be worried about the change…

Yeah, ordered last May after 2 test drives. stalks a non issue for me.

I actually find it's not really a problem for me on larger roundabouts but it can be a little more of an issue on the smaller ones. In my day to day commute I have zero issues but I can certainly appreciate that they are not ideal in some circumstances which I will encounter myself, but I like that it's different.

When you refer to tight car parks do you mean the issue of shifting Forward & Reverse?