Here’s hoping Elon Musk won’t have to personally fix President Trump’s new EV anytime soon.
  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    145·
    2 个月前

    They’re shit cars. Let’s please stop pretending they aren’t. The build quality is abhorrent.

    Yes, they had the cool factor for a while, and yes, I feel sorry for (some of) those who got caught up in something they didn’t want to be caught up in. But also, the writing has been on the wall a long time, and build quality issues have been public knowledge for about as long.

    You get what you pay for.

        • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          124·
          2 个月前

          Do you have a source for that?

          Also we should note that Tesla paid $0 income tax on $2 billion income in 2024. And Trump axed the tax rebate to help people buy EVs.

          • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml
            26·
            2 个月前

            Dumb tax as in tax for being dumb. I was joking.

            I think “stupid tax” is the more common verbiage, I’ve updated it

            • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
              6·
              2 个月前

              Personally I think “idiot tax” works better.

              “Stupid” and “dumb” being adjectives that could also be describing the tax itself, rather than the person paying it, is ambiguous. But “idiot tax” clearly says, to me anyway, “a tax on idiots.”

          • ayyy
            14·
            2 个月前

            The phrase “idiot tax” is also used to describe people who buy lottery tickets.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      24·
      2 个月前

      I had a coworker who bought a used one five years ago who said it was great having the first owner do all the repairs.

          • alanjaow@lemmy.world
            42·
            2 个月前

            Webster’s updated “literally”. It now includes the definition “to add emphasis”, since people keep using it incorrectly. They update the dictionary to reflect current usage, so I get it, but it still makes me sad.

            • setsubyou@lemmy.world
              6·
              2 个月前

              If this sort of thing didn’t happen, you would just have claimed that seeing the dictionary entry makes you not hungry. (Original meaning of sad in Old English, cognate with German satt which still has this meaning.)

            • 0ops@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 个月前

              Mark my words, it’s going to happen again with “objectively”. I see stuff like this constantly:

              This art piece is objectively good

              That’s not what’s objectively means?

    • ayyy
      171·
      2 个月前

      My buddy found blue painter’s tape where there was supposed to be wire conduit and screws when he lifted up the carpet on his. You may note that blue painter’s tape is intentionally designed to be temporary and dissolve away after a few weeks, which is much less than the expected lifespan of AN ENTIRE FUCKING CAR.

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    57·
    2 个月前

    Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.

      • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        Except it isn’t stupid bullshit. They are giving the money to musk so that they can get something they want done. This also gives musk more power as he’s able to buy more people.

          • ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 个月前

            “Anonymously” at an “auction” was the intended implication, I believe. Where in actuality someone is just paid a lot of money in a manner that is harder to trace, and has an air of plausible deniability.

  • HorikBrun@kbin.earth
    48·
    2 个月前

    If this were a movie, (that I was writing) The car would glitch and lock Dumpster inside, then burst into flames. He would push the panic button, then look through the smoky windows at fElon laughing demonically, while Dumpster lights-outs coughing and railing against the betrayal, and injustice of it all.

    Fade to black. Cough

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 个月前

    $90k is nothing for these people.

    You have any clue how much Trump is stealing from tax payers? The dude is making a fortune off being president.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    296·
    2 个月前

    Hearing Trump talk about how the car has ‘computer’ (during the news conference) made me think back to a news event with George H.W. Bush in a supermarket, seeing a grocery barcode scanner for the first time.

    Same kind of inquisitive and excited response from both of them.

    This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
      23·
      2 个月前

      Trump did a supermarket thing while out doing his disinformation circuit, and the owner guy was trying to explain things to him and you could tell Trump had never grocery shopped and then quickly lost interest and tuned the guy completely out.

      The McDonald’s fries thing was also amusing when he learned “how fries were made” and that they put them in a basket and not scoop them out by hand lol.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 个月前

        The McDonald’s fries thing was also amusing when he learned “how fries were made” and that they put them in a basket and not scoop them out by hand lol.

        They could have let him learn that the hard way, but no.

      • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        2 个月前

        Fucker Carlson shopping in Moscow can be put there too since he is another head of the MAGA hydra.

        • ayyy
          5·
          2 个月前

          WoW tHeY iNvEnTeD sHoPpInG cArT rEtUrNs

      • Minnels@lemm.ee
        6·
        2 个月前

        Imagine if everyone in the world would just say “fuck no, I am not cooking for you” and the billionaires would die of starvation because they don’t know how to do. Hilarious.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    222·
    2 个月前

    Musk did some crazy brand management with Twitter, but the Tesla/Trump stuff has got to be unparalleled in the history of branding. He built a product that was an identity-broadcasting thing for liberals and then pulled a 180 and drove as hard as one could possibly imagine in the other direction.

    Even if he had some idea of selling to conservatives, become the only EV manufacturer selling to that segment, he could have put out a different brand, which lots of manufacturers do, and mitigate losses to the original brand.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sale-big-losses-second-hand-value-plunge-elon-musk-2025-3

    Tesla owners offloading their cars over Elon Musk backlash are in for a nasty surprise

    • Some Tesla owners are considering selling their cars as backlash against Elon Musk and DOGE grows.

    • They may have to take a serious haircut, with prices for used Teslas plummeting in recent years.

    • The average price of a pre-owned Tesla is now $30,000, nearly $10,000 less than a non-Tesla EV.

    https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gaining-republicans-loses-traction-democrats-stifel/

    Stifel’s Think Tank Group data has shown that Democrats’ net favorability of Tesla fell to -15% from 7% since February 2024, while Republicans’ rose to 27% from 11%. Democrats’ net purchase consideration for Tesla vehicles also dropped to -42% from -31% since Musk endorsed Trump in August, while Republicans’ improved to -13% from -26% in the same period, per Stifel.

    “There is a clear negative shift from Democrats, while Republicans willingness to buy a Tesla is rising… This backlash has surfaced anecdotally and on social media (people placing bumper stickers on their Tesla’s claiming they love the car, but not Elon, and other variations),” the analyst noted.

    • supernicepojo@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 个月前

      Car brand history has a lot in store if youre interested. You can basically start at Volkswagen for the obvious, mitsubishi is a story too, hell even Ford but that has some anachronisms we have to kind of ignore.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        At least denazification worked on Henry Ford. Someone showed him footage of the death camps and being confronted with the reality of it gave him a stroke that almost killed him, and which contributed to the cerebral hemorrhage that did kill him.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 个月前

      I don’t give a crap how much I’ll get for it. I’m ruling out private sale because I don’t want to deal with nazis.

      I’d rather crush it.

      I do have a friend that does EV conversions on cargo vans. Could be useful for that.

  • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
    161·
    2 个月前

    I hate how people think “news” is just literally every single thing trump or musk does now.

    “Rich fuck buys shitty car” is not news.