It’s the wrong day for April Fools, even in Europe
Someone must have pressed the wrong button ... or the right button too early ...
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#22Seems like since their 4/1 joke got leaked yesterday, they're trying to lean into it. And rather being received as a punchline that missed the timing, news outlets are discrediting it and generally the intended audience is going more negative.
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#23It is quite interesting from a branding perspective how hard it may be for traditional car companies to convince you to buy their electric car. Is a company like VW really investing, in the long run, in electric cars in the way Tesla is? Should I _really_ trust their one-off electric car they build to dip their toe in? You wonder what it WOULD take for VW, Chevy, Ford, Toyota etc to convince you their product and com…
I see what you mean from a focus standpoint, but I feel like the traditional carmakers will likely always do better at quality, safety, and longevity for traditional stuff. Panel gaps, paint, proper automotive grade components, and so on.
Me too, cars are just much more than their engines and drivetrains.
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#24I don't like the name but it begs the question...
Is April fools the 'marketing dept' version of 'Staging' in a CI/CD pipeline? (or maybe blue/green deployment is better analogy !)
Like, if the tests fail (the public is enraged at your tweak ex. 'volt'swagen) , rollback the change under the guise of 'April fools'
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#25I keep seeing this being described as a “lie” when it’s really just an April Fools joke. I mean, I get that it’s not super funny, but man... when did we get so grumpy?
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#26How ever could anyone believed in VOLTSWAGEN?
I thought it plausible since a lot of people pronounce the k as a t (I used to when I was a kid) and this would just formalize it.
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#27They registered the Voltswagen Twitter in 2019. Looks legit. And the Volts name is pretty brilliant.
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#29German humour. But I bet it will be the name of a subsidiary.
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#30It is quite interesting from a branding perspective how hard it may be for traditional car companies to convince you to buy their electric car. Is a company like VW really investing, in the long run, in electric cars in the way Tesla is? Should I _really_ trust their one-off electric car they build to dip their toe in? You wonder what it WOULD take for VW, Chevy, Ford, Toyota etc to convince you their product and com…
I think that Skoda CityGo and the VW 1UP second gen are probably the best town cars there are (in EU sense).