I drive one. It's a slightly older model, generation 3 hardware, back from the days when everybody loved Elon (before he threw in with the GOP).

The car is fantastic. FSD is fantastic. Love the guy or hate him, it's the best car I've ever owned by a significant margin.

As someone who actually drives FSD, and the older version of it too, it is very good. On the highway it drives better than I do. At least once it has saved me from what otherwise would have been a serious collision- I was in the middle lane minding my own business, suddenly the car slams on the brakes and swerves into the left lane. I'm thinking it's lost its mind, when a pickup truck comes barreling straight from an on-ramp into the left lane. Had the car not reacted it's entirely likely they would have crashed into me.

I don't excuse Elon's politics. I think he has done a lot of good for our civilization with SpaceX and Tesla and bringing about the era of actual electric cars (which previously were perpetually always 10 years away). At the same time, I think his efforts to get Trump reelected have been extremely harmful. He does not tolerate incompetence in his companies and I don't understand why he tolerates it in his politics.

So it's valid to argue the guy is a net negative on society, it's valid to argue he has helped benefit politicians who resemble Nazis, and it's certainly valid to criticize his 'from the heart' gesture that really did look an awful lot like a Nazi salute.

The guy still makes an excellent car.

Just good i guess. Good and pretty cheap

There was research done in norway that 3 out of 4 tesla owners buy a new tesla when they need a new car

Deplorians

It's not about money, it's because Musk thinks self driving cars should work with only vision because human drivers do so as well, and nobody was able to push back against him.

For other great Musk driven design decisions, see the Cybertruck. And IIRC the lack of physical door handles as the frameless doors have to open the window a little first or the weather seal gets damaged.

That seems awful expensive to sell 38 cars. Isn't demand for Teslas still obliterated in all the EU nations?