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Honestly it might have been fine if he managed to keep his public image under control or it was not so tightly coupled with Tesla's brand. Most large trucks and SUVs are suburban grocery getters or used to take Timmy to soccer practice so they don't actually have to be practical at all.
I honestly like the blade runner look. At least it's a little different than the ubiquitous cross overs that all look the same. I would never buy one though because Tesla has shit quality and Elon is a wanker.
Indeed, what Tesla's REALLY selling isn't an electric car, it's the idea that Elon Musk is this ubermensch, the real life Tony Stark... he's the mascot so to speak.
This is the problem with having your mascot be a real person in the social media era.
Tony The Tiger can't go on a drunken twitter rampage about how we need to make America GRRRRReat again. Colonel Sanders can't ruin KFC's image because he's fucking dead.
I was his fan at the time and at the reveal and it still looked like a joke to me. He also didn't deliver on range and price.
The only people that got interested in it are those that wants to get attention, because the shape provides it. It doesn't look like the car provides anything else.
Was that the reveal where he said the windows were indestructible, then proceeded to smash one on the first try?
Apparently he has a bad habit of telling the engineers to do things that are literally impossible, and then firing them when they can't do it. So they actually have a guy who's job it is to distract Elon Musk so he never talks to the engineers, because it's either that or keep hiring new ones.
*two
You can taste the embarrassment in this photo.
He kept boasting that it was "bullet proof". Meanwhile I could easily imagine the engineers in the back really badly hoping he would shut up about that because they understood the gravity of the costs and compromises that would have been required to actually make this car bulletproof
Guess what, turns out it's not bullet proof after all. What a shocker.
Yeah, lol.
They should have made like 10 and raffled them off for charity.
Then he gets the goodwill of "They actually delivered a car that looks exactly like the prototype" without the expectations on quality and performance of a made-by-the-thousands serial production product.
The firm who makes a few carbon-fibre Batmobiles for film sets and rich geeks doesn't get the same guff that GM would if they started selling them in Buick dealerships.
I won’t ever win a wank mobile, but some of the components and castings are really high quality. Some are really fucking poor design decisions too though.