Imagine being such a dumb power-hungry Nazi you tank your entire EV company, the highest valued auto brand in history, bankrolling the guy/movement who promised to get rid of EVs. Seemingly very little "6D chess" comments about Musk because his actions are that indefensibly stupid.
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To be fair, it was incredibly overvalued. Its value was driven by one of the most successful conmen of all time. I just can't figure out if Trump or Musk is the most successful conman of all time. One has the most wealth in the world, one has the most power.
It was overvalued because Elon did a bunch of fraud and about to become a felon, hence why he supported trump to help dismantle the very institutions he was threatened by.
What do you expect? What do men with power want? More power.
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Dealer franchises can suck my balls, but Elon can go fuck himself.
This is not the right answer, yeah sure you will upvote it because fuck musk, but the forced middlemen of dealerships needs to go the fuck away
Agree, but right now we have bigger fish to fry. We are in chemotherapy mode to save democracy, anything that hurts Tesla is good for now. We can debate the pros and cons of the dealership business model if we survive.
Yes, this is. Real example of bad regulations that shouldn't exist.
The entire dealership model is stupidly outdated. They add no value, and if they truly did, remove the law mandating it and let the market sort itself out.
Car salespeople at these dealerships are the prime example of leeches.
Yeah, even here in Europe most places that sell cars gave up their dealerships.
It's a shitty business model that makes no sense for the owner.
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Never should have gotten an exclusion in the first place. It's a shitty rule but he shouldn't have gotten special treatment
The problem is that shitty rule is often (not sure about NY specifically) added after the fact to stop Tesla.
The general rule was always if you ever used a dealership you have to continue using a dealership. (and Tesla never has so shouldn't have to)
Then when Tesla came around the auto ~~makers~~ dealers lobbied to change that to you must use a dealership regardless. In some cases Tesla lobbied/went to court against that and got exemptions, in some cases got it thrown out, and in some cases outright lost.
The rule of having to use one if you already use one makes sense. The dealerships put a lot of money into it and could be rugpulled otherwise.
But changing a law specifically to fuck with Tesla was more than just a shitty rule.
But I don't know if NY is one of these places that changed the rules to fuck them in the first place.
Absolutely disgusted with musk.
However, I also wish we could somehow break the dealer networks as well, original reason I was rooting for the waivers.
Wait, I thought Tesla didn’t have “dealerships” and instead has “stores.” Or at least that’s what someone schooled me on here for making the insinuation that the stores were essentially dealerships.
Based. At least some people aren't surrendering.
Unless you can fix your tesla yourself , you should not buy one..
I’m so sad that Tesla failed so hard. It would have been nice to see the death of third party dealerships.
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