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Look where Tesla is now. At every step that have faced production consistency and reliability issues. They flat out suck at making cars and have 20 years of quality engineering learnings to catch up on.

Consumer Reports 2021 report puts Tesla in 16th place among US car brands. In JD Powers 2021 Dependability Study Tesla came in 30th, followed only by Jaguar, Alfa Romero, and Land Rover.

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Underrated truth - have owned a Tesla for 5 years, and the number of stupid things that go wrong with it is incredibly high. It works like a phone...after a number of years, it takes forever to boot and has plethora of bugs. Random stuff breaks/falls off. We're going to see even more of this in 10 years, as the cars that were produced during the scaling period start falling apart. What sets automakers apart is that you can buy a used car after 10 years and expect it to still work.

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