dalton108
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- Dalton
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Welp. This absolutely speaks to the demand for the truck being quite low.
I bought two different first year new generation Corvettes over the last decade (C7 in ‘14, and C8 in ‘21) and the idea that GM would need to pull any levers to juice sales during the first 36 months (let alone less than 12 months!) of production is laughable. The wait for my C7 was about nine months from order to delivery (during production), and for my C8 it was 18 months! From actual order, to delivery for my CB after production began was about 30 days. And that was in JULY (only eight months into production) demand was already starting to wane.
Supposedly, sales were going to “pop” once the non-foundation series was available. Never happened. Sure it’s the best selling EV truck but Ford can’t sell any and have ceased production until next year so all of that’s relative.
Many of us FS guys who were on here talking about how ‘you really, all things considered, only paid a $5000 premium to get the truck early’ seem to not know that people paid at least that (and sometimes in excess of 20 times that) to have the privilege of getting an early C7/C8 (and those were basically dealer mark-ups that got you absolutely nothing but the car).
Rivian forums are replete with Tesla owners joyously reporting that they’ve dumped their Teslas. Elon‘s antics have had an impact whether anybody wants to acknowledge that. WD and other Youtubers have had an impact as well.
The cost is too high and the range is too low. That seems to be abundantly clear, the market is speaking.
Again, personally (outside of my interests as a stockholder) this suits me fine. I’ve got mine and I don’t care if another single person ever buys one. I never wanted it to be affordable or popular. I love it and chances are it will be in my garage the day I die.
But, anybody that (at this point) thinks that this is going according to Tesla’s plan needs their head examined.
I bought two different first year new generation Corvettes over the last decade (C7 in ‘14, and C8 in ‘21) and the idea that GM would need to pull any levers to juice sales during the first 36 months (let alone less than 12 months!) of production is laughable. The wait for my C7 was about nine months from order to delivery (during production), and for my C8 it was 18 months! From actual order, to delivery for my CB after production began was about 30 days. And that was in JULY (only eight months into production) demand was already starting to wane.
Supposedly, sales were going to “pop” once the non-foundation series was available. Never happened. Sure it’s the best selling EV truck but Ford can’t sell any and have ceased production until next year so all of that’s relative.
Many of us FS guys who were on here talking about how ‘you really, all things considered, only paid a $5000 premium to get the truck early’ seem to not know that people paid at least that (and sometimes in excess of 20 times that) to have the privilege of getting an early C7/C8 (and those were basically dealer mark-ups that got you absolutely nothing but the car).
Rivian forums are replete with Tesla owners joyously reporting that they’ve dumped their Teslas. Elon‘s antics have had an impact whether anybody wants to acknowledge that. WD and other Youtubers have had an impact as well.
The cost is too high and the range is too low. That seems to be abundantly clear, the market is speaking.
Again, personally (outside of my interests as a stockholder) this suits me fine. I’ve got mine and I don’t care if another single person ever buys one. I never wanted it to be affordable or popular. I love it and chances are it will be in my garage the day I die.
But, anybody that (at this point) thinks that this is going according to Tesla’s plan needs their head examined.
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