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Austin was really a different city in the 70's and 80's and even 90's. So much more people friendly back then in most repects.
Not friendly? Not friendly? YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU SONOFABITCH
 

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Your Cybertruck was always going to lose value.
Not anything like the Cybertruck where it dropped by 40% in a year.

Owned nearly a dozen vehicles since.

I alway buy new as there is no point in purchasing someone's headache.
 


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Well I don’t want to work, but I do want to eat, so…
You are not the problem demographic I was talking about because you live in reality and know that working improves your life. So many people seem to just float around, making other people pay, whether it be parents, friends, or a trust fund that they want to squeak by on while feeling entitled to complain about "the system" and how everyone else has more than they do. In my experience, government workers who are paid a reasonably nice salary and benefits, while not being expected to be all that productive, are often the loudest complainers, feeling like they have been dealt from the bottom of the deck, not realizing they made the life they find themselves in.
 

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Not anything like the Cybertruck where it dropped by 40% in a year.

Owned nearly a dozen vehicles since.

I alway buy new as there is no point in purchasing someone's headache.
You are not buying a vehicle so much as adopting cutting edge tech. You are always gonna pay more for the New Hotness.
 

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Elon talks like a futurist too much....just talk about the company not futures without cars or even more cringe...his personal politics. It was weird. The company should be ok.
 

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As well as all other sales for literally every other [insert company name here] over the same time period.

Big clue here: The world is in a RECESSION.

Some (many) companies will not make it out alive.

But Tesla will. And it will prosper...
If you think we are in a recession, you've never been through a recession: the only countries in a recession right now by the usual indicators are the UK (Brexit fools), Germany, and Japan.

However, it does look like we are headed into one, possibly a severe one, and soon, with most economists putting the odds for this year at >50%. This is not gonna help TSLA for sure, Elon knows it, and hence the break with Trump over tariffs.
 


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If you think we are in a recession, you've never been through a recession:
Guess what the 69 in my username represents?

with most economists putting the odds for this year at >50%.
Yeah, I don't care what "most economists" say. The definition of a recesion was changed about three times throughout the Biden administration so he/they didn't look bad in brain-dead, mainstream media, sheeple, public perception.

We hit recession status multiple times by prior, cleary definitive, definitions of a recession. Just beceaue we didn't see people lined up at gas stations four blocks long to get gas like in the 1970's doesn't mean we weren't in recession status for the past few years.

But I am not here to debate recessions here with you. If you don't think the economy had anything to do with reduced Cybertruck sales, then that's fine...you do you, and I'll do me...
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Not sure I agree Docedward on your BYD statement as they are not that far behind if at all. For a average buyer and not a fan of Telsa, or Ford or any other maker their cars/SUV's may be a upgrade from what that person has at a more affordable price. The point was if BYD was here they would have eaten into Telsa, Ford, and VW etc sales as they build a quality product(maybe not cutting edge) starting at a affordable price point.

I say this as we wanted a new truck/SUV last year as the old dodge was long in the tooth. I have been driving a Dodge 1 ton(3500 diesel) for last 11 years but we both new it was time to move on due to health issues and age. But we were open to all makes and sure the Mavrick is not super luxury or the highest tech but at under 30K (we paid just over 28K for the XLT) I can easily live with last years or before tech. Really the misses wanted us to buy a vehicle with no touch screen and they just do not make them any more really. We are older and just do not need all that fancy stuff. And to be honest there are so many new bells and whistles on this 2024 hybrid that to us it is great. There are also several new features still that we just do not use and do not care to. I have yet to use the cruise control after a year.

If Telsa made a car/SUV/truck for 28-35K we would have looked at them also. Why does not Telsa make a basic vehicle with less high tech but more affordable. I am pretty sure at one point EM did mention years ago that that type of vehicle was going to come from Telsa. There are so many of us that just do not want or need a 50, 60, 70K vehicle. We just want to get from point A to point B safely and in some comfort.
Sounds like you should have waited for the Slate
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