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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Tesla was already selling plenty cars in Europe. Then Elon ruined it by financing the campaign of a bunch of grifters with a hateboner for Europe. What did he expect?

[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Buy Volvo, Dacia, BMW, MB, Renault and VW instead!

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Only if public trans can't work for where you are.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Added them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought Volvo was Chinese?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The company was sold to Ford at 1999 and to Chinese holding company at 2010. And Renault owns Dacia and parts of Nissan and Mitsubishi. Citroen was owned by Peugeot and they merged with Fiat Chrysler automotive to Stellantis group who own a buttload of brands (Fiat, Jeep, Opel, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler....)

So if you really want to stick on purely European you need to look for MB, VW or BMW.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Geely. It is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not the cheating VW, please.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They all cheated, just VW that was prominently caught.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

VW also tracks all vehicles movements and made the data public including personal info.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

Please donโ€™t support the regime. Thanks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

End world hunger like you promised.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

After this weirdo has run around, supporting far right parties with the goal of destabilizing Europe? He can shove something somewhere

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah uuh lets not do that. Id rather use some of those appetizing syringes i found under the bridge than drive a tesla.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Once you've seen who he is, you can't unsee it.

All that for a few more bucks and because his bottom line is being attacked. Let him be valued as he values everything: money only, not human values.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ok donate all your money to charity and support decent causes.