Tesla

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/tesla-advertising-campaign/

Tesla will begin advertising for the first time ever.

Following a shareholders meeting earlier this year, Musk announced that Tesla would launch an ad campaign for the first time in the company’s 20-year history.

Until its latest push, Tesla has spent just a fraction of what other major car manufacturers have spent on advertising. Tesla only spent $151,947 on advertising in the United States in 2022, compared to $370 million spent by Ford, $1.1 billion spent by Toyota, and General Motors spending $1.35 billion across its brands.

[mark]

They can advertise all they want. I will probably never see an ad. I will never buy a Tesla because they are fugly, unreliable, lack the proper range, and take too long to charge.

But mostly because they are fugly.

[xenon]

I’m glad other people are buying EVs. They’ll get the kinks worked out. I’ll consider buying one when they fixed the stuff that Mark is talking about.

I just bought an unnecessarily huge ICE vehicle this week.

[jon-nyc]

Sweet. What did you get ?

[Mik]

Enormous automobiles are your God given right as an American. Whadya get>?

[xenon]

Haha - I got a BMW X7. I loved my minivan, but the thing held its value too well. It's almost 3 years old but I got more for it than I spent on it new.

Honestly - I felt like I just wanted to cash in on that more than anything.

I don't use the car for commutes, so its mostly just a road trip car + errands. Much funner driving this thing in the hills of the pacific northwest vs. the van.

Plus we're 99% we're stopping at 3 kids - so the big bench row works just fine for us.

[Axtremus]

@xenon said in Tesla:

Plus we're 99% we're stopping at 3 kids - so the big bench row works just fine for us.

Maybe you want to take the grandparents along for certain events (kids' games/performances/award ceremonies/graduations, etc). Maybe want to haul the kids whole debate team or soccer team or scout troop?

[xenon]

Well that was the exact justification for getting a 3 row SUV vs 2 row. We don't need the seats day to day and keep them down, but can add some people in a pinch (we do transport grandparents pretty often).

[George K]

In a few years, you'll love that third row,

[Copper]

@xenon said in Tesla:

I got a BMW X7.

Nice

Watch out for democrats.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/climate-activists-deflate-tires-of-43-suvs-on-beacon-hill/

[xenon]

@Copper said in Tesla:

@xenon said in Tesla:

I got a BMW X7.

Nice

Watch out for democrats.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/climate-activists-deflate-tires-of-43-suvs-on-beacon-hill/

Winning hearts and minds.