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So you don’t really own the truck then, if they can say what you can or cannot do with it after you bought it.
There are plenty of reasons why someone may need to sell their vehicle (job change, moving) within a year. Having Tesla forcing them to only accept $50k buyback for a $122k vehicle sounds on par with Musk’s shitty personality.
What I don’t understand is why people voluntarily involve themselves with his shitty personality. At least with his employees you know why, they’re getting paid. But Tesla customers are paying him.
Okay, but this is not an unusual practice with car makers and specialty cars. Now is it legal? That’s a whole other can of worms. But the biggest instance of this whole kind of thing that I can remember is when John Cena was sued by Ford for selling his Ford GT.
So you don’t really own the truck then
Well yes and no. Yes you may transfer the property like you own it, you just cannot resell it, which sounds silly but there’s a technical difference. But in the utmost strictest sense, nah, if you cannot turn it as a profit “ownership” is seriously lacking.
There are plenty of reasons why someone may need to sell
Not to defend any of this, but usually those kinds of people aren’t buying specialty cars, which the Cybertruck would met all the requirements for a Court to treat it as a limited run.
Having Tesla forcing them to only accept $50k buyback for a $122k vehicle sounds on par with Musk’s shitty personality.
Oh yeah, absolutely. All of the restricted resell of specialty vehicles is bull. But it’s not just Musk’s shitty personality here, it’s an ugly side of specialty cars in general.
All of that said, A court did actually rule against Ford once but it was on a super technical term in that the owner sent the car to an auction house, which sold the car, thus technically not the “owner” selling the car. Ford has since updated their anti-flipping contracts to include this provision.
There’s all kinds of reasons car makers employ anti-flipping and resale restriction. Another one is the Ford A-plan stuff. People who buy cars on Ford’s AXZ-Plan have these kinds of restrictions for six months and, if they’re caught it could cost them their job as well as a fee.
And I know I feel like I’m picking on Ford, they’re like the Nintendo of the car industry, they will heavily litigate you to death. But all the car companies do this stuff. Ford is just especially inclined to retrieve their stuff or due payment. And if you enjoyed that, imagine how fun it is to have one of these restricted resale vehicles and it gets repossessed, those are real fun situations.
Fuck Tesla
This isn’t a truck. This is an Emotional Support Vehicle.
I mean, imagine trying to pile a half cord of wood in that thing. Or a yard of mulch. Or anything else that you would actually use a pickup truck for.
Granted, the overwhelming majority of pickups never see anything in the back besides a rake or a couple spilled bags of groceries, but Christ on a crutch, this pile isn’t even pretending to be useful.
It has the same bed size as a Ford F150 Lightning. The bed is fully lined as well. Why do you think it’s not suitable for those tasks?
Well two things. One, the bed has that weird slope on the side meaning you have to get things directly from the tailgate if you aren’t tall enough to reach over.
The second and more important factor: the target demographic. Country boys that do that kind of shit deride electric vehicles.
I can see your first point, but the second one is moot. Just because it’s a different target demographic, doesn’t make it any less a usable pickup truck.
Whoa, now, don’t you go Lewis Black’ing and imagine I wasn’t gonna notice. Hehe, wp.
The cybertruck design is something that every 5 year old has drawn since cars were first invented.
I’ll be honest. I really like it. Looks like an 80s vision of the dystopian future. I’m of a certain age and watched the right movies for it to appeal to me.
It’s just a shame it’s stainless steel not aluminium. Would have been significantly lighter, cheaper to make, easier to repair, available in different colours, and crumpled better in an accident.
Right now, it’s too heavy to be legal to drive on a regular driving license where I live. That and I don’t want to support Musk, so won’t buy a tesla car till he’s left the company.
I really like it. Looks like an 80s vision of the dystopian future.
Ha. I’ve said the exact same thing about what it looks like and that’s why I don’t like it.
And still looks better than whatever the fuck BMW is doing lately…
No the Cybertruck is still worse, but its a closer race than it should be. BMW has been really shitting the bed lately.
Cybertruck at least has a coherent design language. New Boomers look like a badly trained AI vomited random crap from a prompt by someone who has no idea about design and has just downed a bottle of vodka mixed with a bottle of strong beer.
if “Tesla has reasonable belief that you are about to breach this provision, Tesla may seek injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the Vehicle or demand liquidated damages from you in the amount of $50,000”. Ah yes, very normal.
Wow, seems like a solid and reliable investment.
