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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Based on the fact that I know they cost more. They are marketed as luxury trucks my dude. It's not some wild and wacky theory my guy. I just said 10x to make the math as simple as possible when I typed.

Edsels sold for the equivalent of 26,000$, cyber trucks start at 79,000$ that's 1.5:1 in favor of cyber trucks.

[–] nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

and why does a 'luxury' price make it not as bad of a flop when selling half as many units as a famous flop from when the us pop was half the size? you know things cost money to make, right? cybertrucks aren't making tesla 79k profit a sale. what even is the point in trying to make it seem not as bad unless you're trying to simp for tesla?

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I make a luxury watch for 500$, you make your watch for 20$. We both sell our watches for double the price. I need to sell less watches to make a larger profit than you.

It seems like you're trying to lie about Tesla to hate them.

I still hate Tesla and Elon despite the fact that the flop of the cyber truck isn't actually worse than the worst flop of all time. That actually makes me more of a Tesla hater than you. Sorry, I don't make the rules :/ better luck next time

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

That's a sound idea, but it really needs numbers, otherwise it looks rather pointless.

I'm not sure if Ford made profit from selling those cars (when unsold ones are accounted for), I'm not sure if Elon did, too.

[–] nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lol yeah simp

edit: "acktually they made slightly more money even tho they sold less than the famous flop, you're making things up to hate tesla!" is so fucking funny.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They are marketed as luxury trucks my dude.

They weren't, though. First it was originally supposed to be $40k, and then when they couldn't do that they put a lot of "projected fuel savings" BS into their pricing page to make it look much cheaper than it actually is. If they were genuinely trying to market it as "luxury" they wouldn't be chasing so many Government sales.

It ended up with this "luxury" image entirely inadvertently, because it's not fit for purpose and only a rich idiot would ever buy one.