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If you look at share price sure. But if only they could actually build their cars to meet demand and not have them constantly fall apart.

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I hear endlessly how bad Teslas are from anonymous internet people who don't own them and the exact opposite from everyone I know IRL who does.

My girlfriend owns a model Y and I could write a long list of reasons why they are poorly built and a nightmare to get serviced.

To be fair your anonymous and that comment is on the internet

not anyonymous, that’s Matt Maroon

Ha, I have had my real name as my screen name here for 17 years. Can’t be any less anonymous on the internet than that.

I should have investigated the profile more. Maybe he's faking it? Hah

You can see from the color of my name that I went through Y Combinator. If I’m faking, I was putting a lot of effort into it :)

We can’t, only other YC alums.

I owned a Tesla and could write a Master's dissertation on it. Interestingly, me buying the Tesla car was my life's shittiest investment but the Tesla shares I bought around that time (mid 2019) were my best investment.

I drove a Volvo after that, until landing in a very dangerous accident recently (the Volvo literally saved my life). Now I'm driving a rental Honda (which was my starter car on which I learnt to drive). Both beat Tesla by a mile.

> Both beat Tesla by a mile.

Pray what's that mean?

In my experience driving them. I like manual buttons and safety. Granted, the Tesla was the first car I bought and it was an amazing car in and of itself, but the ICE experience was far better. The software side sucks (I don't know why people keep praising Tesla for it).

Yeah Volvo is great at safety. And reliability too. I owned a 10 year old one that cost me a couple thousand, drove it for years without notable maintenance except the usual oil change and it kept going <3

So much better than my Skoda where half the dashboard fell apart and the gearbox suddenly just "crashed"

If I ever own a car again it'll be a Volvo :) won't be an EV for sure because I always buy old cars, i just hate spending a lot on a car. It's not important in my life and the past 6 years I haven't even owned one and rented one only once.

Ps totally anecdotal evidence obviously

Hey look, Hyperbole. Fun!

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