Teslas have always been crappy cars but it took his involvement in politics for people to realize. Truly amazing.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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I'm telling you he's gonna invent the ''reverse class action lawsuit'' and sue the entire population of the EU for not buying his cars enough. He's already suing ad buyers for not buying Twitter ads.
Spoke with a doctor today. He told me he gave up his Tesla. And will never buy another. He has two EV’s now. Not Tesla’s.
Although the drop in UK sales is less than a half or even a third of what it is in other European countries. So we have work to do to catch up.
It's true that our drop is a third of Germany and France's, but it's also true that they were buying far more Tesla cars to begin with.
In January 2024, Germany bought 3150 Tesla cars, France bought 3118, and the UK bought 1581. They were buying double our amount.
Germany and France's numbers have now massively dropped, and are now in line with UK numbers.
Our percentage drop is lower only because we were already iffy on Tesla, whereas Germany and France weren't.
France and UK have higher purchase powers than UK, thanks to Brexit, so I wouldn't put that down to people being more sceptical.
People in the UK are more likely to drive new cars than France, and only just behind Germany.
We need the entire country to unite and start pointing and laughing at Tesla drivers.
Give them a hard Paddington stare, perhaps tut and roll your eyes. That'll teach them. I saw one the other day, gave it both and I think the driver has learned their lesson.
Perhaps get some flyers to pop under a wiper if you see one parked: "this really isn't on".
“Please consider parking around the back in future to avoid the embarrassment for both of us”.
Oo yeah, we could have fun stickers "please could Teslas be parked on the road as they make us look bad".
Yes! And like the notices on lorries and buses to not undertake when it’s turning left, you could have a Tesla sticker for “take care when overtaking as this vehicle may veer violently to the right”.
"My other car is a Panzer".
“High five, fellow Tesla driver!”
I've probably blocked the Tesla subs here on Mbin/Lemmy, too lazy to check, but as soon as it became apparent Musk was killing Twitter for the Saudis with particular zeal and determination, I left Twitter, told anyone I could that Elon Musk was Nazi garbage, and blocked the Tesla subs. This wasn't a difficult determination.
Turning point for me on Musk was his childish reaction to the whole rescuing those kids from that cave thing.
To be honest, I never paid much attention to Musk other than I was glad someone was making a solid push into the EV market.
But after his tweets to the professionals saying they couldn't use his pressure vessels, it was clear Musk was stunted in his emotional/mental development.
Sigh
