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Elon Musk delusionally believes Trump support is not affecting Tesla, claims sales are at 'all-time highs' (electrek.co)

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I, for one, definitely won't be buying another Tesla as long as Naziboy Musk has anything to do with the company.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Did you look at the relative age of the vehicles? Consistency of finish was a widely publicized issue while they were struggling with quality trying to ramp up, but you rarely to never read about that anymore. I believe quality has consistently improved and one from the last couple model years will be significantly better than the first couple years of mass production.

However my direct experience is with a model y

2023, so more modern, quality issues have been largely worked out
more gigacast pieces. T least at the time, the claim was that having both front and back chassis gigacast means they’re starting with perfect alignment - fewer places for misaligned body panels to happen.