A snake oil salesman? Where does that come from? In the past decade he's taken Tesla from a nothing that was buying chassis from Lotus to build the roadster to sell a handful of cars to today where he has a gigafactory under production to be the biggest building on earth while selling 88,000 cars with an ASP well over $100k last year. I dont know about where you live but here in my nice pocket of houston, Im seeing them all over the place.

He's built the world's fastest car which btw big auto had 100+ years to do and couldn't, funny how the minute the tesla p100d comes out Dodge puts together a dedicated team to launch the Demon which comes out soon, and yes its a tad quicker to 60 but it has to use freaking drag radials, small tires on the front, and it has to have 1 seat in the whole car to compete with the model S which has 4 doors, 5-7 seats, and regular tires. He is pushing the envelope of the auto industry: he is changing the business model, changing the way cars are purchased, changing the way cars are updated, changing one thing after another for the better and you wanna call him a snakeoil salesman?

I don't know about you, but do you enjoy all the games you have to play ie the will cover method to purchase a freaking car? The MSRP/invoice and shopping around? I like Tesla's no discount approach and the fact I can order it online in a matter of probably 5 minutes or less without dealing with some annoying salesmen, clearly others agree as sales and pre-orders are through the roof at this point.

They pretty much built the world's coolest car to this point, its out of most people's price range now for the S or X, but that all changes when the model 3 launches in a couple months, that could be the eureka moment for the auto industry where they realize that consumers want the simplicity of an 18 part Tesla vs a 2000+ part internal combustion engine. The hundreds of thousands of preorders are telling, no car company on earth could even fathom that number, hell GM thought they were gonna kill Tesla with their bolt, well they launched it and after 3 months were having to give $5000 discounts on it bc it wasn't selling, heres a link

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and to top it off, GM sales declined right after its launch, lol they only sold 952 units in a whole freaking month on a car whose lease is $0 down and $300+ a month. Meanwhile Tesla got people to drop $1000 deposit 2-3 years in advance of delivery, if that doesn't tell you a tidal wave of demand is coming I don't know what does.

and WTF kinda oil loving mod stopped this thread from updating when people comment? I get whoever did it is probably an employee of big oil or whatever, but really? We can't even rationally discuss Tesla without you keeping the thread from being ontop of the page when there's an update? We're on page 4 already within a matter of hours and yet someone is trying to keep the discussion from going forward? You realize even a conversation like this could lead to tons of pageviews and clicks which benefits TD but instead you try to squash the convo? Makes sense.

This post was edited on 4/27/17 at 7:22 am