Tesla Talk 2

thats not a massive cut its a lower spec model, which every brand has? and 0 percent finance that's fake news, its 1 percent and its not like that's uncommon in the industry!

Anyway lots of strong sales being reported around Europe if car brand sales light your fire, surprised we werent getting a market by market update from Mad_Lad or whatever he calls himself now

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/teslas-european-sales-show-signs-of-recovery-in-february/

Totes!

Ok mad_lad

And the Model Y was the best selling car (not EV) worldwide for the last 3 years. That's some going. Be a while before a Chinese company can say that.

Just checked ChatGPT and did a Google search and it depends who you ask it seems and the figures over 2025 are not there yet. It looks like the RAV4 might have got slightly ahead in 2024 but it was very close. Total sales over the 3 years looks like Model Y wins

Goes to show though that Toyota had the best selling car in the world for decades on end, and newcomer Tesla has successfully challenged that

It's almost as if the CEO taking a step back from politics has helped sales of the car brand… Who'd a thunk it?

You seem however to be so attached to Tesla commentary you accumulate most of your posts on Boards in this very thread.

For a non-Tesla owner it's really rather odd.

Or maybe its all the other ev brands that didnt exist before…. Tesla was never going to grow into perpetuity, EVs arent new any more everyone is doing it, there is competition, above, below and alongside, and clearly they dont see their future in slugging it out in that sphere.

Is her right, no idea. But he has been more financially successful that almost everyone else in the world so he may not be a complete idiot about everything?!?

Besides i couldnt give a toss, my Juniper is a great car, its unlikely ill buy another Tesla as the X and S dont exist any more and ill likely try something else in a year or two (and the 3 wont work for space reasons). You spend more time fretting about how Tesla are getting on that most.

You're kidding yourself if you don't think that had an impact on sales though. I predict sales to increase further and for financials at his other companies like Grok, and maybe even Twitter, to stabilise now that he's taken a step back, presuming that he keeps back, of course.

Yeah that's definitely a valid point. When I bought my Model 3 in 2023 for just over 40k there wasn't many other EVs out there that gave me a car of that size for that price. Today there's a lot of similar cars out there and the BYD seal is practically its main competitor

The space for the X and S are being filled by Merc and BMW so you are getting more options at least

id disagree with you on the cost cutting at the cost of touch and feel, the current interiors match up with anything outside of the properly nice stuff in terms of quality (helped with the likes of Audi and BMW racing to the bottom) and its precisely those efficiencies that have enabled them to make the prices so competitive.

But that said i do lament to loss of the more premium S and X, but its not the direction tesla are going in it seems.