I was an ideologue for Tesla awaiting a car that I had put down a 50% deposit 2 years ago with no interest & then ‘locked-in’ the remainder of the price and options in November, 2008 for a car that had been delayed until April, 2009. Now they pull the rug up from underneath me and want to charge nearly $10,000 in options? Shady is an understatement! I hope there is a mutiny! Go here for more info: http://www.saxton.org/tom_saxton/2009/01/tesla-price-increase.html

A few years ago I opened escrow on a house on a Friday.  That next Monday they wanted $10K more and through a loop hole they were able to ask for it & had another buyer lined up (remember those days when the housing market was riding sky high?).  Though the house was “worth” the extra $10K and we were emotionally attached, I told my broker & my wife, that on principal I could not continue with the deal.  The $10K I thought was just the beginning of something nefarious and not the end.  After we walked away we found out that the blue prints for the pool that they had displayed when we walked in to see the house for the 1st time and that were going to be given to us for free so that we could use them to build a pool were useless as the city had determined that the soil was unfit to build any pool there!

So I put to those of you who have “locked-in…” what is Tesla not telling us?  And those who have yet to “lock-in” and don’t seem affected… what might happen to you when they call your name early because others have dropped out?  And those of you who think that $100K is a lot for any car and can’t ever dream of spending that kinda dough on a car, ever… How about if it was a $10K car and you were in a similar situation and they told you the price was the same as you had locked it in with that $5K deposit, but the steering wheel was a $1K option?

“All that is needed for evil to succeed is that decent human beings do nothing.”  -Edmund Burke
“Abusus non tollit usum” - Translation: “Abuse is no argument against proper use”

uh hmm… ha ha… *sigh*

MUSK STRIKES AGAIN!

Today’s lesson: History Repeats Itself.
-It’s ironic that Nikola Tesla’s own misleadings with business and entrepreneurial tact would reflect so kindly upon a company bearing his name half a century later.

Don’t Quit Your Day Job
-Elon Musk should stick to his physics degree and just keeping shooting things into space, because as everyone knows “what goes up, must come down,” and this (ASS)tronomical failure in his part as a businessman displays the realities of why not all of us are fit to lead and how easy it is to destroy the hope of so many (cue Martin’s return a-la Steve Jobs post-firing).

And A Personal Opinion
-The Roadster is a proof-of-concept. The company proved they could build it. They should not try to immortalize it as the saving grace of the electric car industry forever remembered by its features and trim-options, but instead move on to a Second Generation Roadster as an up-sale, not that silly Sports version that’s a spit-ball faster than the original.

...it’s time for someone to register TeslaSucks.com

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
-Nikola Tesla

You know that a steering wheel is not the same thing as different rims, right?