Is Elon Musk hurting Tesla? (Mod Note Post #1)

That's fair, I assume you'll also be getting rid of your BYD, Hyundai or VW?

Every review of this I've looked at is inundated with funny/sarcastic comments. "Does it come in braun", "the self driving feature was only following orders" etc.

Not a single supportive comment that I could find.

Does not bode well for sales. But that remains to be seen. A lot of this stuff just dies down and people continue to buy.

Yeah. As I said. Doesn't mean diddly squat unless it translates into sales.

But they're amusing though. And I get the impression (not being bored enough to actually check) that it's the same people making the same funny comments on multiple review.

Yet you have Starlink and probably use twitter too, because it suits you.

Sending all our money to a communist regime is not a comparison at all, in fact it's far more dangerous.

Anyway back to the Model Y, looking forward to seeing it on our roads, I think it's a decent facelift.

There were a few funny comments, mostly tongue in cheek and not malicious. There were also a few two-faced sh1theads calling for Fully Charged to delete the video and unsubbing from the channel (probably). These are the same trolls who chant "river to the sea". What do they all have in common? Look Left, not Reich.

Well look back in a few years at this.

I'm in no doubt, absolutely no doubt.

There'll be alot of ducking and diving. Bigly.

Yes, Foxcomm (Taiwanese company) factories in the ROC. There was even an Iphone city. I guess it didn't raise eyebrows as it was just another sweatshop like Nike and other brands had been known to use in the previous decades.

So putting aside established outsourcing practices the focus is very much on the CEO openly calling for regime change in European democracies. Has there been elected EU governments opening calling for the overthrow of democracy in the USA?

Or he could just be a megalomaniac who just happened to be involved in some good innovations.

Hitler may have commissioned the VW Beetle but it stayed in production up til the 90s. I have older US relatives who used to boycott Toyotas because of Pearl Harbour!

Edit to add, I guess the whole point of the thread is about a brand owner in the present time devaluing the product with their personal antics. VW and Toyota had WWII legacies to contend with when entering the US market, even Opel rebadged as Vauxhall because of their tank building legacy.

Yeah, it was really that they kept the Vauxhall branding in the UK, because it was a well recognised UK brand and therefore would hurt sales if it was rebadged Opel.

This goes back decades. Models were the same back as far as the 1970s, but they were badged differently and also there were some model name differences. For example the Opel Manta in Ireland was the Vauxhall Cavalier (GLS I think) in the UK. Exactly the same car with maybe some interior cosmetic differences (that could have been Irish poverty spec too).

Starting to feel the bite?

As soon as the 'Chinese government' who now seemingly own and run all of byd start interfering in Irish Government affairs. UK prime minister affairs, EU legislation and trying to fund far right nazi parties in Germany. I'm all ears my man.

All ears.

Have the Chinese said that the US army should llberate the UK or interfere openly in European domestic elections ?

There was a time (not sure if it still holds true) that Tesla's profits were entirely the various subsidies they got from the US government.

So even if not entirely that now, they will miss them. Also tariffs have a funny way of biting back, whether it be through parts imports or quid pro quo tariffs on US goods.

That they still parrot the obvious lie that tariffs bear directly on foreign companies shows that they know who will be harmed most. The last time Trump did this, there were factory closures due to the high cost of imported raw materials.