Why not? I will fully insure it, so no worries there. Turn $45K into $250K in 2 years, no risk (other than if Elon is wrong). If my son crashes the car, insurance will cover it.Many of us put our money behind our beliefs, but none of us would be foolish enough to give it to your Son
How many is "many"? Any source on this? Is this a new thing with Model 3's? I'm curious, really, why someone would buy a $50K car to drive for Uber.
I think you missed his point.Because he thinks we are all Dufusses
We are on our 2nd Tesla ( a 2015 S and a 2018 3 ) and have literally never had a problem, never had any service done only added wiper fluid and plugged it in. People with issues make exponentially more noise than those who don’t. My wife had a Jetta and I had a Chevy Malibu before the Tesla’s and both were nightmares. The cars are not perfect just another data point when judging the reliability of the company.
Why do you feel you have to take the negative experience of others to kill what should be your high? Tesla has the highest customer satisfaction rating of any. Why don't you look your whiny friends in the eye and stand up for your great experience? I'm not discounting their beef but it seems you are not as determined as they are touting misfortune as to declare your good fortune. SMH As the word goes 1 negative will outweigh 10 positives... Nothing is perfect. Spend some time on other car forums and see that there is always a percentage of unhappy customers. Not saying that they are wrong but maybe some positive will help. When equal parts of liquid and air are in a glass, Is the glass generally half empty or half full for you? Expect something is going to go wrong with most everything. How you choose to deal with it will determine whether you are generally happy or angry. Good luck!
There are only so many cars you can garage and drive. Yes, they need to be driven so that, as per Elon, they collect the data for every mile and therefore improve FSD, making robotaxi closer to reality. Who better than teenagers to drive the cars to rack up self driving data miles. Just storing them doesn't do it. I am offering you an opportunity for at least one more car you can make money on than you can manage to drive yourself. By saying no, you're turning down up to $200K per car, in just 2 years.
Because, according to Elon, the prices are going up fast. Teslas are appreciating assets, which cannot happen if people can buy a new version for less. So, the only way they stay appreciating assets is if Tesla keeps rising their prices, with target being up to $250K. Imagine what bitcoin price would be if you could still buy it today at the original price. If we assume linear appreciation, Model 3 will cost ~150K next year.
There are only so many cars you can garage and drive. Yes, they need to be driven so that, as per Elon, they collect the data for every mile and therefore improve FSD, making robotaxi closer to reality. Who better than teenagers to drive the cars to rack up self driving data miles. Just storing them doesn't do it. I am offering you an opportunity for at least one more car you can make money on than you can manage to drive yourself. By saying no, you're turning down up to $200K per car, in just 2 years.
Because, according to Elon, the prices are going up fast. Teslas are appreciating assets, which cannot happen if people can buy a new version for less. So, the only way they stay appreciating assets is if Tesla keeps rising their prices, with target being up to $250K. Imagine what bitcoin price would be if you could still buy it today at the original price. If we assume linear appreciation, Model 3 will cost ~150K next year.
- Buying TSLA doesn't bring in FSD data miles, so it doesn't help bring robotaxis closer
- The money actually doesn't even go direct to Tesla, but instead to those who are selling it to you, so you're not really helping Tesla reach their FSD goals.
- As Teslas are appreciating, and Model 3 prices start moving north towards the forecast $250K, The demand will shrink. $250K is above the price of Model S and X, so maybe look at number of predicted Roadster sales (same price). This means that Tesla revenue will not actually increase 5x as the price does. There will be additional revenue or losses from other businesses, batteries, solar, insurance, vehicles for Boring Tunnels, etc, etc. All those add to uncertainty of the TSLA price. With the car guaranteed to hit $250K in value, you have a low risk 5x return in 2 years (the only risk is whether Elon was right on this one thing).
Does that answer you questions? Keep in mind, all this is assuming Elon is correct. IMHO if he believed his own story, he'd spend majority of his personal billions buying Model 3's and giving them to people to drive, then make 5x the money in 2 years. If would sure help Tesla financial if Elon bought a few billions worth of Model 3's - they might not need to raise money with all the profit they'd make from the sale of Model 3's to Elon. Win-win all around - Tesla gets a sales number boost, Elon more than quadruples his fortune (even more considering that his TSLA sticks will be worth more by some amount).
That is just not true. I could even insure your life if I want to (would need to know who you are of course), nothing illegal about it. You are not even required to know about policies people take out on your life (you don't pay premiums, you don't receive the benefit). But I understand if you don't believe me, so if I make the insurance work, how many Model 3's are you buying as an investment?
How am I a sour grape? I am offering you an opportunity to 5x your money in 2 years, unless of course you are the sour grape by saying Elon has no clue what he's talking about.
A quick search on V9 discussions on TMC here would counter your point about getting better. I gave a ride to a friend visiting from another state today, he loved the smooth drive and acceleration. He loved the big screen, so he tried the web browser, turns out browser is dead. I told him it used to work, now it works once in a blue moon, maybe next time he visits the stars will align just right for it to work. Then I told him the story how an ill-thought update from Tesla costed us a side $600 side mirror, told him that my wife just didn't read the release notes thoroughly in the morning. So he wanted to see release notes, oops, they didn't show up either (blank screen). He then tried the user manual (I've honestly never once did that in the car, so can't tell if it ever worked), evidently that doesn't work either (headings worked, but once he navigated to the page he wanted to see, nothing showed up). "Yep" I said, "Welcome to Tesla perma-beta software quality". He then asked "How much was this car?"...
