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Your heart's in the right place but this is bad advice.

Teslas are still wickedly expensive to repair and there's only the dealership who can do those repairs.

And the parts break way too often, even parts that shouldn't break ever, like the door handles that only Tesla can replace. The cost of that can apparently be over $1k. For a door handle.

It'd be a money pit after the warranty period runs out. You're still going to be better off with a run of the mill beater car

Until Tesla allows other shops to do repairs, those swastikars will never be economical even if you ignore the Nazi part

Your point about buying used being better for the environment also applies to older gas powered cars too, which will be easier and cheaper to repair

No money goes to Elon directly, but it still increases the market price of Teslas. So someone else deciding between used and new might just buy new because it doesn't cost much extra.

Right? Who knew that making a product that half of the population wants to buy and then making your brand based around the exact half of the population that lives in contempt of this product instead was a bad idea?

Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that's lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It'll get 50 miles per-charge, but it'll intimidate their neighbor's kid, so it's worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

I don't think the MAGA Cult can even AFFORD electric vehicles, I mean, shit I know I can't.

Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

They’re trying the “buy EVs to own the libs” angle. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton….

which is great, because it will increase the chance that tesla will go down and with that elon musk.

Eh...put a lift kit, USA flag wrap, and a smoke machine on the cyber truck and they'd double sales.

Elon out here thinking Twitter bots are real people. Too much ketamine.

These people literally live in reaffirming social bubbles they have created. On and offline both. They don't see that they are overplaying their hand.

This article should bring you joy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/

This is beautiful

If beattheshitoutofmytesla.com was a thing I'd do contract work on my weekends.