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Europe is economically strained right now. Inflation has hit hard, with housing costs skyrocketing even in less expensive countries, and people are being gentri
by dumbledoren 1y ago
Europe is economically strained right now. Inflation has hit hard, with housing costs skyrocketing even in less expensive countries, and people are being gentrified out of their own cities. Its no time to be buying expensive vanity cars. People cant even buy normal cars right now.
- nemo44x 1y agoIt’s odd to read the comments here, somehow getting into a long thread about nazi camps when the buried lede is that Europe is under tremendous financial stress and it’s not getting better. Losing ground for 20 years to USA and ascendant Asia where Tesla sells a ton of cars is a concern. Talk about boiled frogs.
- 123yawaworht456 1y agono matter how many events prove them to be laughably wrong, they keep deluding themselves into thinking that the values held in their extremely isolated bubbles are commonplace. like yeah, sure bro, people see a $50K car and purse their lips because musk is le bad. just like they do about BMWs and Porsches, right?
- drivingmenuts 1y agoAre BMW and Porsche actively encouraging neo-Nazi groups?
- 123yawaworht456 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#History now, how many people give a fuck about any of that?
- rsynnott 1y agoI realise it is most improper to read the article on this here orange website, but: > Overall, battery electric vehicle sales rose 25% in Europe compared to a year earlier Come on, now.
- nemo44x 1y agoAbsolutely no context behind that. It’s meaningless in isolation.
- rsynnott 1y agoI mean unless you think there’s something super-magical about Teslas that makes them extra-hard to buy relative to other cars… VW ev sales are well up; they’re in broadly the same price category as Teslas, for now (their 20k car is delayed til next year).
- surgical_fire 1y agoThat may be true, but fact is that car sales in Europe are up in the same period. EV sales in particular are also up. Only Tesla sales went down.