The WSJ Spews FUD in Attack Article

[Sjohnson20]

I am the David quoted in the article. I think the article overall is accurate, but the reporter was clearly sent by her editor with a task - so after an hour of conversation the quotes they used were picked for that message. My mostly positive comments about my CT and long Tesla ownership experience were not used, so context is lost. I knew this would be the case, did throw in phrases that I knew would be used, like the CT being a bigger fail than the MX falcon wing doors, but it is consistent with truth. This is simply how reporting works - I was quoted in the WSJ regularly when I was an analyst covering public companies, and learned how to speak with reporters in a way that got them what they came for, no more, no less. But it was still an interesting crapshoot when opening the article to see which quotes were used and which weren’t.

The article’s basic message that the CT is a design and marketing failure of epic proportions is completely true. Some of you will reply that the jury remains out, or that notwithstanding the model’s limited public acceptance compared to stated market objectives, these are great vehicles, give it more time. Okay, but seriously, the numbers are the numbers and we are now 18 months into what was supposed to be a high-demand, smash hit game-changing truck. It simply isn’t any of that - and it is now an albatross that Tesla must come up with a strategy to either correct or move on. The market has voted and the answer on the CT was “no.”

I love my CT and am glad to own it - it makes life better, provides grins like no other vehicle. That is true of every Tesla I’ve owned. But they have also required more service and have experienced more “recalls” than any non-Tesla vehicle I’ve owned. The beta-tester stuff comes with the Tesla ownership territory. Of course that satisfaction and positive view was shared with the reporter, but this wasn’t their angle for today’s piece. Meanwhile Dan Neill has written two WSJ articles in the past six months explaining why people should look past Elon’s foibles and buy a Tesla anyway - including one about a new used M3 he bought for his daughter a few weeks ago.

Just wondering but was this person that registered on this forum and used the name Bob actually a woman that wrote this article? Were they using a fake name and pretending to be a man?

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[CyberGus]

Were they using a fake name and pretending to be a man?

Is that against forum rules?

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