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Is Tesla a high status or low status vehicle?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by SamFisher, Nov 10, 2024.

  1. Haymitch

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    Model Ys are everywhere. The status is "yeah here's a-****ing-nother one."

    That said, I did look at one over a year ago and test drove it twice. Ultimately chose a different, much cheaper car. Just made more sense for me at the time. I liked the Y but I did get motion sickness from it. The regenerative braking was too severe, or maybe my stomach is too scarred from that one time I threw up on Astroworld's Looping Starship, or maybe I'm just a bad driver. Either way, that was a negative mark against it.
     
  2. IBTL

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    Whatchu think I rap for, to push a ****in RAV4?
     
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  3. LosPollosHermanos

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    Did OP ever figure out if twitter fialed or Elon is funny/laughing (from someone that doesn't like elon)
     
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  4. fchowd0311

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    I don't like Elon. I don't respect an individual who simps for Elon also. I'll even dehumanize Elon simps as little squeaky rats. At least my discrimination isn't based on a trait someone was born with. I am fine with bigotry towards Elon simps.

    Are you a Elon simp?

    You a venture capitalist simp? You a little b**** for your lords?
     
  5. Invisible Fan

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    Tesla is in an EV price war.. Rivian is so underwater it could be a submersible startup. GM pulled out its Bolt. Ford and the asian manufacturers are still figuring it out while ev sales decline. I'm genuinely curious how euro manufacturers will adjust to agressive carbonless mandates.

    I don't think Tesla needs to be in the bleeding edge of status as long as it's in the lead for cost/performance.

    The resale market for all EVs is troubling. Around a 1/3-1/2 of the cars initial price is tied to its battery. Maybe well maintained old cars don't need to run 15-20 years and should be junked sooner like smartphones.
     
  6. IBTL

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    The Tesla is like a giant dogshit sundae.
     
  7. AroundTheWorld

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    Elon is great. Teslas are great. Just saying there are a lot of them here, particularly Y (we have one, too).
     
  8. LosPollosHermanos

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    Whoa.

    My reply answered your question. You sound pretty unhinged man. Elon simps + Elon obsessors like OP are in the same pool. Elon has lost a lot people money over the last 5 years with his stupid schemes and heading of Tesla. I think the latter would be better without him, that being said it’s ridiculous how people salivate over posting about him having diarrhea or forgetting punctuation

    you seem pretty incapable of differentiating between a dichotomy

    because I don’t like someone doesn’t mean I can’t call out ridiculous people like OP who are the reason Trump is in power. The funny thing is neither you or him will understand what I mean by that
     
  9. fchowd0311

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    It's okay my dude. Bigotry towards Elon simps is fine. They just don't have to be Elon simps. It's an easy fix. I'm all for "no elon simps" signs in front of local businesses.

    And people worried about the world's wealthiest man sharing tweets about how the Jews are trying to replace white people, I'm assuming some people worried about the future of this civilization might be a little obsessive in covering....


    the world's wealthiest man who spreads OG Nazi rheotric.

    SImping for the world's wealthiest man is pathetic though. You simping now. Don't open yourself up to deserved bigotry.
     
  10. LosPollosHermanos

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    I just read the first sentence, what on earth are you going on about my dude? Did you misread my posts or something
     
  11. fchowd0311

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    Stop throwing derangement syndrome energy at a random dude online posting about Elon and more derangement syndrome energy towards the world's wealthiest man backing fascism.

    Derangement addiction to covering Elon Musk at least has a logical argument behind it.

    You derangement priorities are all jumbled.
     
  12. SamFisher

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    But seriously - i see Tesla is trying to give discounts to Uber drivers now - seems a bit, I don't know...

    I'm getting rid of my Kia EV lease in a few months for another vehicle

    Getting a plain cheap white Tesla seems like buying a plain Ford Taurus when they used them as taxis.

    I might go ioniq6 or E-quinox, though if I'm feeling angst about my status, the Dodge E Challenger/charger would be lol
     
  13. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    TESLA's are ugly cars. Driving one makes you feel like you are driving your desk from 1985. The SUV isn't half bad, but at $90K plus I was like this is a waste of money.
     
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    Get a cybertruck.
     
  15. Exiled

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    It depends. . .owning a Gulfstream jet without going broke is an outstanding way to reflect wealth status,flying 1st class on Gulf airline is poor folks standard of achievement, to each their own sort of things. , thought there's a thread in hangout about ev that was beaten to death was enough
     
  16. LosPollosHermanos

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    I am so lost, and no I never implied you had derangement syndrome...ironically until your last post. Think about it for a second, you're not using any synapses over this last page. I don't think you even read the posts before you salivate and vomit some characters.

    Trump being elected is unfortunate. Its also deeply troubling you seem to infer fantasies that don't exist. If you or SamFisher wake up every morning acting this way, I take back what I said vindicating you from being a loser like him and being the reason trump got elected in the first place. The anger of the people that are going to be discriminated shouldn't directed at Elon, Biden or Trump. It should be directed at the morons that make people run in the other direction like you and Fisher. The irony over your intentions and what you end up causing is poetic.
     
  17. ThatBoyNick

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    You're doomed if you base your political ideology on how some people act on the internet. It's only natural to respond to what's in front of you, but come on guys, take a step back and look at what this is.

    This social media thing with politics is tough, it's breaking people.
     
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  18. fchowd0311

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    I never implied that you implied that I had derangement syndrome of Elon. I'm telling you something is frying your brain whether it's your doom scroll feed or some parasocial relationship you've developed with some "anti-woke" grifters that is making you be pissed off at things with really odd priorities.


    Buddy why does the right always threaten to vote for awful people because of claims of being bullied? Can you figure that out for me?

    Can you find an example of this phenomenon on the left or even in liberal circles?

    No leftist has an infatuation with Bernie Sanders because they got called terrorist supporters online and love Bernie because Bernie "owns the Nazis"


    So why is it that the right always does this thing every time they win where they said they voted for an ******* because they were called racist? They don't care based on principles and policies and ideology? But based on someone online being mean? WTF is that? Do you think I prefer candidates based on someone calling me a terrorist online?
     
  19. Astrodome

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    I think Toyota took the line personally and improved the RAV4 a lot around that time. Them suckers used to be cheap.
     
  20. LosPollosHermanos

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    With respect to the above, nobody has accused the majority of the american people as being "intelligent". What they do follow however, is boogieman stereotypes of the leftists being crazy hyesteric loonies that he ironically actually proves.

    "Yea elon and Trump both suck, salivating over them day and night isn't a good lock though"

    "HoW dArE yOU suPoRt ThEM"
     
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