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A Tesla Owner Speaks
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric PetersWell, here's some owner testimony for you. This guy bought a new Model S – an $80,000 car. He was champing at the bit to get the keys. He most definitely did not have any ax to grind.
This does not bode well for Elon – whose company this week had to 'fess up to a hemorrhagic cash bleed – $671 million, the worst yet.
Wait. It is going to get even worse.
Many of the "issues" detailed by the unhappy owner in the video – swirls in the paint, poor panel fitment, squeaks and rattles – may not seem major to the casual reader.
And wouldn't be . . . if it were 1978.
In those days, it was actually common for even luxury-brand cars to have swirls in the paint, poor panel fitment, squeaks and rattles. The general quality control was terrible and people had much lower expectations. Cars routinely fell apart – or began to – within sight of the dealer's lot. And within five years of leaving the lot, almost all of them were looking hairy and feeling worse.