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I predicted this when they had all their cars flying and shit. Its an advertisment for spacex while distracting from the car that theyre half a decade late to releasing.
Building supercars is always more time consuming than anticipated. The Bugatti Veyron was unveiled in 1999 but it was repeatedly delayed for 6 years until they started actual production in 2005.
Musk is still an asshat, but the the timeline for the new roadster is not weird or sketchy (yet...)
The roadster was unveiled in 2017, and was supposed to come out in 2020.
It's been almost 10 years since the announcement, and almost 7 years since it was supposed to be out on the streets.
Since then it was postponed, at least twice, to 2023 and then 2024.
Not to mention that what they presented last week is in no way shape or form, anything like was it was supposed to be in 2020. And it's basically a gimmick.
It's EXTREMELY sketchy.
Fair enough, I only had the "half decade" delay mentioned in the comment I replied to as reference, which in itself wouldn't be cause for concern.
Oh and I forgot about the hundreds of millions of dollars they took in advances for the Roadster.
Hundreds of millions in what amounts to a no-interest loan of 10 years.
Sooooo sketchy.
"Roadster" nah.
This isn't a roadster. It's a 2 door cybertruck without a bed.
The first Roadster was an actual roadster.
You know... An open cabin 2 seater sports car. That's a roadster. This? This ain't it.
The first roadster wasn't even a Tesla, it was a repurposed Lotus.
They could have come out with the original concept a long time ago. But that was never the plan. The whole thing was never anything but a stunt to grab attention. The flying roadster was certainly effective in that, but nobody is ever going to sit in one of those cars while the tanks are pressurised.
What's better than taking millions of dollars in deposits to build a crappy car? Taking millions of dollars in deposits to build nothing and have a no-interest loan with no maturation date.
Just like the human robots.
Buddy...
Don't you think if anyone should aware of how long it takes...
It should be the people trying to do it?
Like somehow you're arguing that "everyone" knows this, yet Musk clearly doesn't.
Give it time. It will be weird and sketchy.
Well I did write "yet..."