Who has successfully unloaded their Teslas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think what the deranged Tesla haters fail to understand is that some of us buy products on the merits of the product. Teslas are incredibly fun to drive. They never break. They never need oil changes or maintenance. Tesla is 100% American made and employs a lot of people. The whole electric car industry is thanks to Tesla because of their charging network. Whatever you think of Elon, there is much more to Tesla than Elon. As someone who was bullied as a kid, I refuse to be bullied over my car as an adult ffs.

The rest of this comment aside, it is hilarious to say Teslas never break

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid. You are making more republicans every day but demonizing normal people who wanted a nice electric car. I'm going to continue to enjoy my car, thank you. And if one of you monsters vandalizes it, I'll vote republican next election just to spite you. This behavior is disgusting.

Jeez, who peed in your coffee? No one said anything about vandalizing your car. OP is just wondering (as am I) if people who WANT to get rid of their Teslas are having any luck. Its a valid question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think what the deranged Tesla haters fail to understand is that some of us buy products on the merits of the product. Teslas are incredibly fun to drive. They never break. They never need oil changes or maintenance. Tesla is 100% American made and employs a lot of people. The whole electric car industry is thanks to Tesla because of their charging network. Whatever you think of Elon, there is much more to Tesla than Elon. As someone who was bullied as a kid, I refuse to be bullied over my car as an adult ffs.

Yet you don't have any problem with rich nazi lunatics terrorizing people for doing their work and voicing their opinions. Well, that shows you why your values are.

I’m not the poster you’re responding to but what a ridiculous straw man argument. Give it a rest. Every single CeO, founder , etc of incredibly successful companies is batsh*t crazy. Steve Jobs??? Totally batsh*t crazy. The founder of Dell computers - same. To reach that level of success, and take that level of risk to get there, you need to be a certain type of person, and it’s not a normal one. Unless you don’t own a smart phone, don’t use computers, and ride around on a horse and buggy, you’re buying a product made by a batsh*t crazy individual.

I entirely agree with you, but that gives more weight to the argument that we need to bar billionaires from governmental power. Elon has blown past every guardrail that other billionaires respected before him, in a dozen ways, notably by actually BUYING votes in certain states. I still don't understand how that's not illegal! He shouldn't even attempt this. He has a long history of doxxing private individuals he doesn't like and ignoring how his followers then harass and threaten them, as well as subsequent lawsuits that no doxxing victim can ever win since he has a large amount of money to keep throwing at his lawyers to escape legal retribution.

To return to Teslas: in my little corner of Bethesda, it feels like a quarter of the cars are Teslas. There's no way rational owners are going to unload them in this economic context with looming tariffs on cars. I give the side eye to Cybertrucks because they're killer cars, so dangerous they've been banned in Europe. But Teslas? Eh. It's just your run of the mill crap car that people thought was the environmentally cool choice.

Keep your old Teslas, don't buy new ones, unload the stock. At some point, we're all going to drive cheap electric cars from China.

[Anonymous]

Cybertrucks have always been embarrassing. A regular Tesla, I don't judge unless I know the person bought it in the past 2 months. Just put any one of those stickers on it, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So then are the extremists going to vandalize, key and spray paint the cars that people buy because now they’re affordable to them? SMH

Have there been any arrests? It seems like a lot of insurance fraud from people unable to unload their now devalued teslas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get ads for Ourisman Kia of Bethesda in my FB feed - I guess because I bought a used car, not from there, a few months ago and it’s near my house? - and they have a bunch of of Teslas for sale including a Cybertruck with 3000 miles for less than $80 grand.

I get these too and I don’t have a kia, but I find it hilarious that a bunch of people turned in their teslas for a Kia! The telluride seems popular these days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think what the deranged Tesla haters fail to understand is that some of us buy products on the merits of the product. Teslas are incredibly fun to drive. They never break. They never need oil changes or maintenance. Tesla is 100% American made and employs a lot of people. The whole electric car industry is thanks to Tesla because of their charging network. Whatever you think of Elon, there is much more to Tesla than Elon. As someone who was bullied as a kid, I refuse to be bullied over my car as an adult ffs.

The rest of this comment aside, it is hilarious to say Teslas never break

In my life I’ve owned Volvos, fords, Subarus, Mazdas, and teslas. Mazda broke the most, followed by Volvo, followed by ford. Subaru and Tesla are each only about 6 years old but neither has ever needed a repair (other than oil changes on the Subaru)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:everyone here sees at least 10-20 Teslas driving around everyday and not one of them looks embarrassed (the ones without the fully tinted out windows.) I'm thinking only a very few select people care. Furthermore in the last few days I've seen a lot more with 30 day tags on them.

Probably a lot more than that.

I'd be embarrassed, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think what the deranged Tesla haters fail to understand is that some of us buy products on the merits of the product. Teslas are incredibly fun to drive. They never break. They never need oil changes or maintenance. Tesla is 100% American made and employs a lot of people. The whole electric car industry is thanks to Tesla because of their charging network. Whatever you think of Elon, there is much more to Tesla than Elon. As someone who was bullied as a kid, I refuse to be bullied over my car as an adult ffs.

Yet you don't have any problem with rich nazi lunatics terrorizing people for doing their work and voicing their opinions. Well, that shows you why your values are.

I’m not the poster you’re responding to but what a ridiculous straw man argument. Give it a rest. Every single CeO, founder , etc of incredibly successful companies is batsh*t crazy. Steve Jobs??? Totally batsh*t crazy. The founder of Dell computers - same. To reach that level of success, and take that level of risk to get there, you need to be a certain type of person, and it’s not a normal one. Unless you don’t own a smart phone, don’t use computers, and ride around on a horse and buggy, you’re buying a product made by a batsh*t crazy individual.

I entirely agree with you, but that gives more weight to the argument that we need to bar billionaires from governmental power. Elon has blown past every guardrail that other billionaires respected before him, in a dozen ways, notably by actually BUYING votes in certain states. I still don't understand how that's not illegal! He shouldn't even attempt this. He has a long history of doxxing private individuals he doesn't like and ignoring how his followers then harass and threaten them, as well as subsequent lawsuits that no doxxing victim can ever win since he has a large amount of money to keep throwing at his lawyers to escape legal retribution.

To return to Teslas: in my little corner of Bethesda, it feels like a quarter of the cars are Teslas. There's no way rational owners are going to unload them in this economic context with looming tariffs on cars. I give the side eye to Cybertrucks because they're killer cars, so dangerous they've been banned in Europe. But Teslas? Eh. It's just your run of the mill crap car that people thought was the environmentally cool choice.

Keep your old Teslas, don't buy new ones, unload the stock. At some point, we're all going to drive cheap electric cars from China.

I don’t think that billionaires buying elections has anything to do with cars and transportation, which is what this forum is about. I don’t think that billionaire oligarchs should buy the government, no. To be fair, they ALWAYS HAVE. Just more carefully and more behind the scenes, and less like a weird used car salesman commercial like Trump did with the teslas on his front lawn. And the politicians themselves actually cared more about running the country and having reputations as good people than they do now (or maybe that’s me being naive). Anyways, I’d much rather buy a Tesla made largely in America than a piece of junk electric car from china, so, if the people on the left (of which I am one!!) think the best thing for our country is to try to destroy an actually pretty awesome brand of car , to virtue signal, and instead buy a “cheap Chinese electric car”, then I think you’re missing the point.

[Anonymous]

Sure, Hitler was a horrible person, but look at all the awesome Autobahns he built!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:everyone here sees at least 10-20 Teslas driving around everyday and not one of them looks embarrassed (the ones without the fully tinted out windows.) I'm thinking only a very few select people care. Furthermore in the last few days I've seen a lot more with 30 day tags on them.

Probably a lot more than that.

I'd be embarrassed, though.

I’m in Arlington and it seems every other car is a Tesla. I never saw the appeal other than as a cheap car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So then are the extremists going to vandalize, key and spray paint the cars that people buy because now they’re affordable to them? SMH

Have there been any arrests? It seems like a lot of insurance fraud from people unable to unload their now devalued teslas.

Yes. The latest one was the Tesla dealership that was set on fire.

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I didn’t buy a Tesla because I have never liked Musk (and I was right!). However, nearly all of my friends own one. These are solid democrats who wanted to do something good for the environment and not use fossil fuels.

The fact that people are now vandalizing teslas, judging/swearing and spitting at Tesla owners (many who are democrats) and on cars, is not a good thing. It’s crazy radical behavior.

Protest away! Hold the signs up high! Use your 1st amendment rights to good.

[Anonymous]

Elon Musk does deserve a lot of credit for helping to popularize electric cars, and also solar panels. We had panels on our previous house that were installed by a company that was later acquired by Tesla, so I've even done business with him.

But as someone said in a piece I read last year, Musk is the reason that I own an electric car and also the reason it isn't a Tesla.

I don't think you need to feel ashamed of driving a Tesla now, but it is really remarkable to see how rapidly he's turned people who agreed with what he was doing only five years ago completely against him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think what the deranged Tesla haters fail to understand is that some of us buy products on the merits of the product. Teslas are incredibly fun to drive. They never break. They never need oil changes or maintenance. Tesla is 100% American made and employs a lot of people. The whole electric car industry is thanks to Tesla because of their charging network. Whatever you think of Elon, there is much more to Tesla than Elon. As someone who was bullied as a kid, I refuse to be bullied over my car as an adult ffs.

Yet you don't have any problem with rich nazi lunatics terrorizing people for doing their work and voicing their opinions. Well, that shows you why your values are.

I’m not the poster you’re responding to but what a ridiculous straw man argument. Give it a rest. Every single CeO, founder , etc of incredibly successful companies is batsh*t crazy. Steve Jobs??? Totally batsh*t crazy. The founder of Dell computers - same. To reach that level of success, and take that level of risk to get there, you need to be a certain type of person, and it’s not a normal one. Unless you don’t own a smart phone, don’t use computers, and ride around on a horse and buggy, you’re buying a product made by a batsh*t crazy individual.

I entirely agree with you, but that gives more weight to the argument that we need to bar billionaires from governmental power. Elon has blown past every guardrail that other billionaires respected before him, in a dozen ways, notably by actually BUYING votes in certain states. I still don't understand how that's not illegal! He shouldn't even attempt this. He has a long history of doxxing private individuals he doesn't like and ignoring how his followers then harass and threaten them, as well as subsequent lawsuits that no doxxing victim can ever win since he has a large amount of money to keep throwing at his lawyers to escape legal retribution.

To return to Teslas: in my little corner of Bethesda, it feels like a quarter of the cars are Teslas. There's no way rational owners are going to unload them in this economic context with looming tariffs on cars. I give the side eye to Cybertrucks because they're killer cars, so dangerous they've been banned in Europe. But Teslas? Eh. It's just your run of the mill crap car that people thought was the environmentally cool choice.

Keep your old Teslas, don't buy new ones, unload the stock. At some point, we're all going to drive cheap electric cars from China.

I don’t think that billionaires buying elections has anything to do with cars and transportation, which is what this forum is about. I don’t think that billionaire oligarchs should buy the government, no. To be fair, they ALWAYS HAVE. Just more carefully and more behind the scenes, and less like a weird used car salesman commercial like Trump did with the teslas on his front lawn. And the politicians themselves actually cared more about running the country and having reputations as good people than they do now (or maybe that’s me being naive). Anyways, I’d much rather buy a Tesla made largely in America than a piece of junk electric car from china, so, if the people on the left (of which I am one!!) think the best thing for our country is to try to destroy an actually pretty awesome brand of car , to virtue signal, and instead buy a “cheap Chinese electric car”, then I think you’re missing the point.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I don't think Tesla is any better than other brands of cars, I don't think Chinese cars are worse than other brands of cars. I don't have an America-first ethos when I buy. I do feel very strongly that Elon Musk has been allowed to rampage at the highest government level, and directly influence government and elections, at a level that no one billionaire has ever had (regardless of political affiliation). So we disagree on multiple points.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think what the deranged Tesla haters fail to understand is that some of us buy products on the merits of the product. Teslas are incredibly fun to drive. They never break. They never need oil changes or maintenance. Tesla is 100% American made and employs a lot of people. The whole electric car industry is thanks to Tesla because of their charging network. Whatever you think of Elon, there is much more to Tesla than Elon. As someone who was bullied as a kid, I refuse to be bullied over my car as an adult ffs.

The rest of this comment aside, it is hilarious to say Teslas never break

In my life I’ve owned Volvos, fords, Subarus, Mazdas, and teslas. Mazda broke the most, followed by Volvo, followed by ford. Subaru and Tesla are each only about 6 years old but neither has ever needed a repair (other than oil changes on the Subaru)

We have a Subaru and a Tesla. Subaru has had oil consumption issues. Tesla sedan had problems with the seat. Tesla tires wear quicker and are very expensive. Otherwise, can't complain.