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Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
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More Tesla owners need to follow suit. Get rid of those Swasticars.
So i should sell mine with a loss (still have a loan on it), and if I want a car with the same distance, I'll have to take out another loan? No, thank you. I'll stick with my FUCK ELON MUSK sticker I got made.
Sooo question. Can you leverage your car as a trade in? Or is it not worth it because you still have a loan? I’m no longer looking for a car, but there was a time where you could basically get out for about the same price you got in for
You absolutely can. It's whether your upside down on the loan or not if it's worth it to trade in.
I'm in a position to trade in my current vehicle for more than I bought it for, but I can't get anything similar to it for a decent price to make it worthwhile to me.
Great question, I've which I cannot answer, as I honestly haven't thought about that. However, the demand of Tesla's are decreasing really fast here in Denmark, so I'm not sure if I could get a good deal. However, I will check it out next week! Thank you 🙂
Definitely look into it, you never know what you might be able to get for it. I worked with a girl in high school many years ago who somehow managed to trade in 3 cars in a row for more than she paid for them. She managed to pay off the loan on each one and get a better car out of the deal than the one she traded in, and it still shocks me enough that I still remember it to this day.
Unless you see the details, you might take that story with a grain of salt. While there were definitely good opportunities after pandemic messed everything up ….. my brother dated a girl who did this. However after he got to know here, he figured out this “too good to be true” situation was because they rolled her previous loans into the next. Each step where she got fantastic trade ins that seemed to be a great deal, were just digging her more deeply in debt. She should have paid more attention to the overall deals, rather than just the trade in.
I've been seeing people advocating ruining random Teslas and it's pissing me off. Do people think rightoids make up the majority of EV early adopters? Fucking think about it before you go off spray painting swastikas onto innocent people's cars holy shit.
All Teslas? No. But if someone's driving a cybertruck, they know who they were buying into.
Don't be a dick and ruin a stranger's things just because.
Still, those early adopters weren't the people making $45,000 a year. It's not like they can/could afford a new $60,000 car. Anybody buying a Tesla is solidly upper middle class. And often are DINO's politically. And they can live comfortably if they aren't too busy trying to maintain an image.
You’re making way too many assumptions . Most of us care more about the technology than the image, chose to spend money we can barely afford to help build a market toward an EV transition, most of us can’t live comfortably if we lost our most expensive non-house purchase. And I soundly reject your Dino assumption. This kind of hatred of people based solely on a vehicle should be beneath you. Making up characteristics so you can hate someone is not ok. We can see this same logic used on the right to hate people because of their race or preferences, etc. it’s not ok
I really appreciate the fight. But please don’t put yourself in the red or anymore in the negative over Adolf Musk.
If you have a sticker, I'm cool with you. And I say some nasty shit about Tesla owners.
I've never seen a sticker in my town. I give them all dirty fucking looks. Fuck those people. I've stopped letting them in during traffic... And I let EVERYONE in.
You are just unpleasant
Edit: im affairs that I'm not clear enough.
For someone that hates Enon musk so much, you are acting just like him.
You are jumping to conclusions because of the car they drive. One that like it or not helps the environment and has tangible benefits for all of us by using it
You know absolutely nothing about the people you are making uncomfortable. That you are bullying. You are making the roads around you less safe by your childish and petty bullshit.
Congratulations, you are no better than Elon, you just have a much smaller bank account.
Good job on being an unpleasant member of your community.
Good job making it that much harder to convince musk deniers how shitty he is.
Good job making it harder to get good results because you're actions are just as idiotic as anything Elon has thought of
You are unpleasant
The day after Musks nazi salute I saw a MY with blue tape over the logos, lol.
Americans shit all over Japanese cars and their drives for decades after Pearl Harbor...so, sell it or deal. I'm sorry about the stress and financial part but Emerald Elmo is not someone you want to directly support if at all possible.
I'd go right back to a Honda if they had a good EV option comparable to my Model 3 that wasn't too expensive. My Model 3 is almost paid off, was looking forward to no longer having a payment. And their current EV options are lackluster, like most manufacturers. Instead Honda has been fucking around with Hydrogen bullshit for years and insisting it's going to be a thing in the US just like Toyota.
I don't give a shit about the luxury aspect and that's 90% of the EV market. If they just made a Civic EV I'd buy one tomorrow, instead all they have is the Prologue now. And that's actually made by GM, effectively a Chevy Blazer that's badged as a Honda.
I liked my leaf, but that’s probably a rough decrease in range from a model 3
Fr I was quite disappointed when I found out about the prologue and that it is just a GM.
Eh, I have a Chevy Bolt and I love it.
Thats fair. I'm sure they do make some nice cars. I'll admit I have a bias against american cars.
Electric cars are a different beast. Also, since the auto bailouts, American cars have pretty much caught up with their foreign competitors in regards to reliability. Absent some damning reviews and boneheaded recalls, I'd focus mostly on pricing at this point.
I just hope you realize how spineless that comes off to some people.
“I will criticize but I WILL NOT be inconvenienced!” lol
Make them fear it. If they don’t sell now, the price will drop from the others who will and they won’t earn as much later.
Why though? Is the buffoon going to magically lose money when you sell your car?
This won’t hurt his billionaire ass at all, just the poor schmuck that owns the car
Its one less tesla someone else is buying fron them. Flood the market with preownes teslas
This will hurt regular people a lot not that it so every hurt him.
Hes saying if someone buys a used tesla thats money not spent on a new one
Yes. And I’m saying that’s going to hurt regular people more.
A much better suggestion is to stop buying new Teslas. Let the current owners drive them in peace instead of hurting them
That people even have to try and justify ownership of existing Tesla shows that situation has gotten to a state where potential buyers are less likely to get them.
Stocks are based on future sales projections and a brand going toxic is not a great situation. A car suddenly turning from a regular vehicle to one that is now turning into political affiliation is not great for the average person who "wants to stay out of politics."
I’m not sure Tesla stock follows normal trends. It’s price doesn’t seem to be that influenced on sales performance
Yeah, he already got the money for the car.
Her used Tesla is now competing against Musk for the next Tesla customer. And if too many people sell Teslas, the resale value drops which makes new Teslas even less attractive.
So he got her money, but she may have stopped him from getting someone else's money.
“Swasticars” 😭
Are you going to help me and others pay for a new vehicle them?
Nice to say but not all of us have the cash to just buy a new vehicle for political protest.
You say potato, I say "not visually signaling support for a guy who gives nazi salutes, provides monetary aid to literal nazis, and is currently engaged in an active attempt to permanently end democracy in the US".
Spoken like a Internet blowhard.
How long ago did you buy? Still enough Musk fanboys that either don't care that he is a Nazi or support it. Likely able to sell it and buy an objectively better vehicle, if it is an actual concern.
I bought mine 2018 but I'm not going to be selling a perfectly working car, putting my family into more unnecessary debt right when inflation and stupid tariffs are knocking on our doors just to do absolutely nothing but some performative protest to appease a bunch of people on the Internet.
I bet most families that have bought Teslas are going to be doing the same, average people aren't going to be just selling their cars for a protest, putting themselves into more financial strain.
But you do you Internet, I do wonder how many of those will actually put their money where their fingertips are, especially with all of these other companies who are kowtowing to this fascist administration.
Fair enough. That's long enough of ownership that resale would likely be impacted. Getting into debt at this juncture would indeed not be recommended.