Eh, no more shady than what standard dealerships do when they advertise that it's just $199/mo* and then there's some unusually high acquisition fee or an APR c

Eh, no more shady than what standard dealerships do when they advertise that it's just $199/mo* and then there's some unusually high acquisition fee or an APR credit offset that applies to MSRP. Or when they offer you a 4yr/50k mile service agreement, but in the fine print it's actually a special dealership version of the service agreement that's essentially a coupon book tied to that dealership offered by some third party and good nowhere else. It's hard to buy a car without getting at least slightly cheated. The price w/gas savings included at least makes it easier to compare against standard petrol vehicles. It's kind of hard to rip on Tesla when the standard dealership model is nothing but shady advertising and sleazy sales tactics. They could get rid of the asterisk mark / learn more link and it would still somehow be more honest than going to any car dealership in the United States. Sometimes I feel like Tesla gets judged in a vacuum. Kinda weird.