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Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

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I recently got a letter from the bank that owns my tesla loan, informing me that I can buy the car at the end of the loan. Previously that wasn't an option. Plus, it was for $28k (at the end of a 3 year loan). Got another letter trying to get me to buy a new 3 with 0% interest for 60 months. They're definitely under pressure.

Do you mean lease?

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#32
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as you're dreaming, perhaps you should also include giving up all his equity in the company. He'd still profit handsomely off someone else running the company well with over 12% of shares.

I'm not going to go that far. He can invest in whatever he wants; if he owns a non-controlling amount of Amazon or Home Depot shares, I'm not going to stop shopping there.

I stopped shopping at Home Depot because their profits are donated to super pacs I don’t agree with.

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#33
post #18
post #12

insane that people actually let elon’s government work influence their car buying decisions

Even if he wasn't morally reprehensible, the Cybertruck is probably the ugliest and worst built car of all time and the rest of the lineup has a history of major quality issues as well. Meanwhile, the competition has majorly caught up with the lead Tesla blew. In 2025 a Tesla isn't worth buying over any number of other EVs

Perhaps, but the oddly overbuilt stainless body with what's basically an M3 drivetrain is potentially a decent vehicle for someone who really wants a M3 but is shopping for $5k beater trucks because he knows he's gonna beat the crap out of whatever he gets

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#34

I recently got a letter from the bank that owns my tesla loan, informing me that I can buy the car at the end of the loan. Previously that wasn't an option. Plus, it was for $28k (at the end of a 3 year loan). Got another letter trying to get me to buy a new 3 with 0% interest for 60 months. They're definitely under pressure.

Do you mean lease?

Yeah seems like your have a lease. You definitely want to return that lemon. Even if you love it return and re-buy for cheaper.

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#35
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if he wasn't morally reprehensible, the Cybertruck is probably the ugliest and worst built car of all time and the rest of the lineup has a history of major quality issues as well. Meanwhile, the competition has majorly caught up with the lead Tesla blew. In 2025 a Tesla isn't worth buying over any number of other EVs

Perhaps, but the oddly overbuilt stainless body with what's basically an M3 drivetrain is potentially a decent vehicle for someone who really wants a M3 but is shopping for $5k beater trucks because he knows he's gonna beat the crap out of whatever he gets

It's an overbuilt stainless body and underbuilt aluminum frame that is not capable of what a $5000 beater truck is. It's a bad truck.

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#37
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but the oddly overbuilt stainless body with what's basically an M3 drivetrain is potentially a decent vehicle for someone who really wants a M3 but is shopping for $5k beater trucks because he knows he's gonna beat the crap out of whatever he gets

It's an overbuilt stainless body and underbuilt aluminum frame that is not capable of what a $5000 beater truck is. It's a bad truck.

It's built to modern standards of power and braking and weighs over 6k. It's gonna run circles around whatever 25yo half ton you can get or $5k as long as the owner actually uses it to its potential. Though the whole back breaking off thing gives me pause.

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#38
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I will buy a Tesla as soon as Elon relinquishes control over the company and resigns from its Board. Not bloody likely to happen, but a person can dream.

Well, I was thinking other way round. When Tesla stock price sky rocketed after inauguration, I thought it would be dumped to PE firms or some other chump at immense profit to Musk. Tesla anyway does not fit into his political agenda, prices are too volatile in last few years and sales going down even before his latest shenanigans.

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#39

Sold my Tesla model 3 performance about a year ago, and it wasn’t because of politics. Tesla continuously deployed breaking changes to my car without my permission. Autopilot, parking sensors, rain sensing wipers that just became absolute garbage… every new update was an exciting journey through the features of my car that used to work and now didn’t. Couple that with depreciation of a 68,000$ car to 19,000$ in two y…

Yikes. Why are they deprecating those features?

Re: Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up

#40
post #11

(The perks are free charging and low interest rates on car loans)

I was expecting “insane”.

The insane part where somehow, magically, one Tesla dealership managed to make 1,200 sales in a single day and claim government credits from it: https://motorillustrated.com/suspicious-tesla-sales-surge-tr...
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