• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    I will feel a lot better when their stock price goes much, much, much lower. Sure they are down 40+% in the past 3 months, but they were WAY too high prior to that.

    Their P/E should be in the single digits if they were like most American companies. Until I see that, I’ll know that they are nothing but a fucking chud memestock.

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      What’s going to be really funny, is when it becomes worthless.

      See, most of Elon’s money is in Tesla Stock, stock that he manipulated by telling tall tales of colonizing Mars.

      In order to buy Twitter he had to take out a loan for the money and use his Tesla stock as collateral. Now, the thing about that is, the stock is only able to serve this purpose because it’s worth so much. If it wasn’t, then Elon basically defaults on the loan.

      This means he will no longer own Twitter, his bank will.

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        Yeah, if you compare their P/E ratio to any other car company…it was and is just nuts. They are in the triple digits last I checked, while many car companies are in the single digits/low double digits.

        It’s gotten a tad bit closer to reality, but still needs adjustment, IMHO. I think the price of the stock should be at about 1/10th of what it is at now…I think a lot of it has to do with people buying into Musk’s bullshit and whole lotta stans in the day trader manosphere.

        But it has a real Gamestop vibe to me…

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      So much crazy shit has happened this year that for an honest second, I was dead set in believing this was real. I feel like there are some people that are this desperate. But unfortunately I’m cursed with the power of reading for more than 10 seconds.

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          Oh yeah that shit made me crack up and I knew it was fake, but it’s funny to imagine.

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    The swastikar idiots need to be called out constantly. They know exactly what they are doing. There are no coincidences. These are the willing participants in the far right agenda….

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        I dont know about afford, surely there’s some idiot who took out a loan for this

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          my ex worker with a guy who took out a 90k loan for some other shitty backleds SUV and literally had to get a second job to pay for it. think started to break down like two months later lmao

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    I imagine Trump will buy the useless cyberdumpsters and give them to cops to use. They are such badly engineered and frequently broken POS’s I wouldnt even mind. Let “law enforcement” deal with them.

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      Well no, it won’t because people actually like the Delorian due to it being redeemed by one of the greatest time travel movies ever made.

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        We can make it happen with the Cyber truck!

        BACK TO THE FÜHRER starring Kid Rock as Marty and Musk as the Doc and the truck doesn’t make it.

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        Here me out. What if they remaster back to the future and the plutonium guys at the beginning drive a cybertruck instead of the white truck?

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          Mostly because it had a garbage engine. The one they used in the movies was modified with a much better engine.

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          The suspension had to be raised to meet new pedestrian safety standards. This ruined the handling.

          They couldn’t get the engine they really wanted (a Mazda rotary) and had to go with a GM piston engine instead. Then, new US emissions standards hit and it had to be downrated to meet those. EU models were better, though engine design in general was kinda in the shitter around this time.

          People think it’s heavy because of the stainless steel, but those are thin panels over fiberglass. Its weight is in the same ballpark as what Ferrari was putting out at the time.

          The first alternator they used did not have enough power for all the accessories to be on at once. People got stranded at night because of this, including Johnny Carson (who was an early investor). These were upgraded later.

          Then there’s some manufacturing difficulties. The early models have creases embedded on each side of the hood. Forming the stainless steel that way often broke it at the factory. Later models have a completely flat hood.

          As the company’s finances dwindled, DeLorean himself was caught in an FBI sting operation where he was accused of selling drugs to try to keep the company afloat. This ended up being a setup by the FBI–with Larry Flynt coming to the rescue, of all people–but it plunged the company’s reputation even more.

          It was a shitty time to make a sports car. Lots of stuff happening at once that made them bad at what they are. Make it 5 years earlier or 5 years later and it’s an entirely different story. Even that might be generous; 1980s sports cars are known more for their angular looks than actual driving ability. It wouldn’t be until the 1990s that companies started to figure out how to work within the new regulations. Then you get legendary bangers again like the Supra MkIV.

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      Probably not, the Delorean was pretty cool even when it was new, I believe.

      Also, a Cybertruck is massively complex, so keeping an old one running would be difficult.

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        Pretty sure there’s probably a Killswitch built in so that it won’t run past a certain date without giving Tesla more money, so once the company tanks they’ll all be dead in the water.

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          The DeLorean was 95% of the way to a brilliant car. The last 5% killed it with a combination of bad market timing and a few questionable parts selections. Most of those issues had been worked out after the first 3000 units, but the company’s reputation was in the shitter by then.

          The FBI sting was a complete hoax.

          There is no saving the Cybertruck. It’s poorly built, ugly, and comes from a company run by a narcissist.

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          They won’t find a single one to film.

          On the global scale the Cybertruck is an incredibly niche American thing.

          It’s only ever sold 40 something thousand units since 2023. That’s ridiculously low.

          For comparison, Toyota sells some 11 million vehicles a year globally. And just in the United States, Porsche yearly sells some 70k units. That 40k Cybertrucks is from three fiscal years

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    There was Dealership near me that had a bunch of their teslas keyed and damaged and smashed. Curious. Now that dealership can claim insurance money on the cars he can’t sell!

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      This relates to the “zigzagging spikyness” you often see with the stock market. Each time a stock falls, many people are going to ask themselves “Hey, do I think that other people are wrong about this property being worthless? Maybe this is a good chance to buy, before they bounce back.”

      There’s a mental appeal to the middle, it’s just a question of what the correct “middle” is. That’s also why many investors were cautioning people against selling during Trump’s week-long tariffs (of course, if you believe the USA is on its last legs, that may be a good idea). You’re probably seeing those purchases from those that feel the Tesla Takedowns will run out of steam, which is why it’s important to keep them up.

      (Reminder if you haven’t been to one…)

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    Are these pieces of junk for sale anywhere outside of Trumpistan? I travel all over the EU for work constantly and I’ve never see one over here, ever.

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    They haven’t moved for months at the Gilroy Ca dealership. There’s been a line of about 20. That I bet have gone fully dead from their hazard lights going off endlessly. I wouldn’t touch those with a 20ft pole. If I ever get an EV I’ll just get the Mustang. Since I own a Mustang. Keep it in the family.

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    In a few decades we’ll get a new Back to the Future movie.

    Doc, you made a time machine, out of a cybertruck?