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Like 2 years ago I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158126 >Many people don't like what the owners o
by mrtksn 2y ago
Like 2 years ago I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158126
>Many people don't like what the owners of Chick-fil-A are up to but apparently they do really good chicken at fair price so people keep buying it anyway.
I would guess that Tesla is losing the premium they can put to their prices and that is pushing Tesla value to a transactional value. No more apologists for the build quality or features that are pay now get it next year(every year, next year), if Tesla makes good cars and sell them at good price people will buy and if they don't people won't
I still think its true, if Tesla makes good cars they will sell at fair value(no more premium to save the planet). In Turkey for example, no one is protesting Tesla even though there were huge protests in support of Palestine. Musk is literally in the US government, literally was the biggest supporter of Trump who announced ethnic cleansing intentions and no one in Turkey associate the brand with this stuff. For some reason they associate Coca-Cola, Starbucks, McDonald's, Burger King etc but never Tesla. Influencers close to the organizations doing the protests even work with Tesla on promotional content. I tried mentioning this to see what they think in automotive forums, it gained no traction. Tesla's are good value in Turkey thanks to the tax breaks on electric cars, no one wants to hear the political aspects.
- taylodl 2y agoThere's a huge difference between spending $10 at Chick-fil-A and spending $50K on a Tesla. Automobiles are the second most expensive item people purchase. They think a little more about that purchase than they do a chicken sandwich. I don't know specifically what's going on in Turkey, but I have seen that January sales in Europe had dropped an average of 50%. That kind of sales decline should make anyone sit up and take notice.
- mrtksn 2y agoI don't disagree, it's just that in UK people have plenty of options and can choose to make a political statement but I would be surprised if they still will do that if Tesla was such a good deal like in Turkey(in the Turkish case, the taxes on ICE are outrageous and as a result a Model 3 would cost about the same as VW Golf).
- terminalbraid 2y agoAutomobiles are also a much more public facing purchase. No one need see me eating lunch, everyone can judge me for what I'm driving.