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The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier
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For many of us we've had our vehicles for a long time before Elon went dipshit crazy. For some it's because EVs were essentially dogshit before the Model 3 was introduced. Either short range grocery getters or expensive luxury. Even now most "electrified" vehicles everyone advertises are hybrids, not EVs.
I got my Model 3 near the end of 2018. Elon wasn't posting far right and Nazi shit at that time. He was sort of controversial, but that was about it.
Stop. He was an asshole then and you just chose to ignore it. Under his shitty leadership Tesla has always been awful. Delays, QA issues, lies, under-delivery and over-promises have been the MO since he's had a hand in the company but the lame tech crowd wanted EVs/self-driving cars so bad they ignored it.
You don't get a pass on buying a Tesla because you did so in 2018. He was a piece of shit then manipulating stock prices and posting dumb shit on Twitter.
In any sort of political adjacent topic there's always a comment from someone that seems to assume that they're inherently better than everyone else for no actual reason and that everyone else cares about their opinion of others. From your response here to a random person on the internet you know absolutely nothing about, I think it's safe to assume you have a single digit number of people that tolerate you on a daily basis.
I hope you have the day you deserve, I know I will.
That's why I don't have ill will for people for having a non cybertruck Tesla unless you can tell it's new. But if you don't have an anti elon sticker I'm starting to side eye them
My rich oral surgeon friend bought a Tesla really early on way before Elon showed us who he really was. My friend has a sticker on his Tesla S that says “I bought this before we knew he was crazy”.
I don't have a sticker, only because I don't like stickers or badging on my vehicles at all. My Model 3 was early enough that they didn't even have the Dual Motor badging for them in stock. They brought the badging to me at some point about a year later when the Rangers came to a tire rotation in my yard, there wasn't even have a full Service Center here yet. I didn't have them actually install the badging, it's still in my glovebox. It's as low key as I can make the damned thing.
But that's a major contributing factor to my looking at alternative options now instead of when it's fully paid off in September. The swastikar is becoming a target, and I don't want to have to deal with shit just because Elon's a Nazi. Got a test drive setup next week for a Polestar 3, and if I fits and I likes, going to be looking at that probably, especially with their added discounts and bonus for leasing and currently owning a Tesla. Most other manufacturer vehicles I'd consider are at least 1-2 years away still, so a 27 month lease is just about perfect for filling that gap, and making a decision then. Would still be less than I'm paying for my Model 3 with those discounts.
Model 3 is still expensive luxury
You can get them under $20,000 at 2 years old.
Not like most of the luxury EV market at $80k+ starting.
Byd goes brrr
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people are in that unfortunate situation. I can't imagine the trade in value is improved. Sorry you're getting shit for buying a vehicle that was supposed to be less harmful to the environment, I guess the lesson is avoid musk products.