This does need detailed management analysis from an ethics POV. IF the facts, as stated, are true, I can not think of any US Tesla manager taking this stance. I

This does need detailed management analysis from an ethics POV. IF the facts, as stated, are true, I can not think of any US Tesla manager taking this stance. In fact, if that fact was concealed and the customer lied to, the customer was right. Now is it possible, in the USA or China for a vehicle to be sold as pure and unsullied? Yes it is - if some one lied to the customer/Tesla that it was unsullied. I think this is illegal in the USA - is it also illegal in China - or business as usual in China? There is a Reddit thread called r/Chinesium which details a legion of low quality items entering into commerce that are unworthy of sale, that should have been rejected at production time or have inherent low quality workmanship. Thus Tesla needs to rebuild bridges in China, cease this Streisandish litigation and move on, making sure that there is never again a recurrence of any more cases like this. All this said, have there ever been any cases like this in the US production flow? I like Tesla, I like Elon, I like the way he acts and thinks, and I suspect he will deal with this with some sort of managerial imperative, might I say ramrod? I am not sure how much managerial control is exercised over Tesla China by Tesla US? Managers and the entire management culture in China seems to place a high degree of credence to 'face', or appearance. This leads to managers hiding errors instead of facing them and solving them - a bad practice.