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It all started when he invented the Emerald Mine... (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I was his fan at the time and at the reveal and it still looked like a joke to me. He also didn't deliver on range and price.

The only people that got interested in it are those that wants to get attention, because the shape provides it. It doesn't look like the car provides anything else.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Was that the reveal where he said the windows were indestructible, then proceeded to smash one on the first try?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    He kept boasting that it was "bullet proof". Meanwhile I could easily imagine the engineers in the back really badly hoping he would shut up about that because they understood the gravity of the costs and compromises that would have been required to actually make this car bulletproof

    Guess what, turns out it's not bullet proof after all. What a shocker.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Apparently he has a bad habit of telling the engineers to do things that are literally impossible, and then firing them when they can't do it. So they actually have a guy who's job it is to distract Elon Musk so he never talks to the engineers, because it's either that or keep hiring new ones.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    They should have made like 10 and raffled them off for charity.

    Then he gets the goodwill of "They actually delivered a car that looks exactly like the prototype" without the expectations on quality and performance of a made-by-the-thousands serial production product.

    The firm who makes a few carbon-fibre Batmobiles for film sets and rich geeks doesn't get the same guff that GM would if they started selling them in Buick dealerships.

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