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Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year'
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Dealers: charge bullshit fee
Mftr: "get rid of this bullshit fee by racking up miles right from the factory"
Customer: "this is such a phenomenal deal!"
Do you think shipping and transportation of goods is free? Do you think truck drivers drive stuff around out of the goodness of their hearts?
Nope, but it also isn't my problem. Roll it into the price of the car, like everything else, and it can be part of the price that you can discuss and haggle over. Coming to a 50k price just to see another 1k+ this and 1.5k that tacked on is absolute bullshit.
Except that not every place is next to the car factory. Delivery to Portland, Maine is going to be a much different price in comparison to Austin, Texas. Do you also expect the cost of titling and taxes be included in the advertised price? Do you know that those vary from location to location as well?
As a European, yes. Absolutely fucking yes. I drove a Model 3 away (a while ago obviously) with all papers in order paying exactly the listed price.
When did I say that every place was near an assembly line...? I said 'not my problem'. It's a company, they can figure it out.
And yes, yes I do. Again, not my problem. It's almost like different locations can set different prices or something to compensate for variables. Amazing, what a concept!
Advertising cars would never be feasible on nationally broadcast TV under your system.
They did figure out the problem though. Price set by the manufacture, show cost for delivery on the window sticker, then when you buy they car the title and tax are figured out for where you live. It's the fairest and easiest way of showing and figuring the price. If you can't figure out that window stickers are available online and the tax and title yourself before you buy, that's a you problem. It's not on the seller nor the manufacturer to post pricing for every state or municipality.
If you want cleaner pricing, demand an end to titling and car taxes.
I'd be fine if there were no more car ads tbh. Sounds like another "not my problem".
Eh, I live <1k miles from a Tesla factory, and I wouldn't be too annoyed at having 1k miles on it when it gets to me. Knock the price down a bit since you no longer need to ship it everywhere and we're good.
We all know this isn't happening anytime soon, so I guess it's only a hypothetical. We can talk once it's a reality.
I'd want whatever the warranty was to be the same plus the miles.
So if it's 5 year 50k miles and I get it at 1k, I 'd want 5 year 51k miles.
I suppose that's fair. But you're unlikely to see much difference with 1k miles.