huh, I read that in a completely different way than you. my brain inserted an Oxford comma: > don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car or a Tesla

huh, I read that in a completely different way than you. my brain inserted an Oxford comma: > don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car or a Tesla became > don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car, or a Tesla since the addition of the article "a" seemed to change the meaning. had it been > don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car or Tesla it would have conveyed even different meaning to me. I'm kind of curious what the GP's post actually meant at this point.