Probably huge government contract incoming, ordering 20.000 of them for military target aim or something stupid. Better raise the price before that
my exact thought
Finally, something that will make flying in an Osprey look safe.
This is how you know Tesler is dead. If anyone with a brain was left, they'd immediately kill the Cybertruck. No matter what the cost, the thing is actually damaging your brand. But when you have a CEO who thinks they are god, they refuse to ever admit they were wrong... so they'll keep a product alive forever just so people can't call it a failure.
Genius! This is some real 7D chess here. /s
Because price is no object when you're an idiot.
No problem. If nobody buys one there isn‘t really a price hike
Milking the remaining fanboys for all the money they have left.
This smells like McKinsey/Bain/BCG. I’m sure the deck that powered this decision was a real work of art. “It’s not selling because it’s not ‘exclusive’ enough so raise prices to create more exclusivity.”
i hate those guys too, but they aren't always wrong. let's say this doubles the margin but thry lose 40% of their sales. thats a massive win for the company.
This kind of thing worked for them in the past. People scrambling to get a Y 'cause prices might never be this low again' as they creeped up over time. I think people figured out that game by now. Plus, the CT is just way less desirable.
Hit that wall full force baby!
There must be a few douchy bro podcasters that haven’t gotten theirs yet.
This is some 69D level chess...
What’s so funny about the Cybertruck isn’t even the vehicle itself. It’s the people who own them. Virtually no work is being done in these trucks and they’re purchased to make a statement. It’s a G Wagon for people who grew up in a trailer park.
Probably just trying to cook up NPV for the inevitable tax write off due to loss.
PLEASE DON'T compare the failwagen to the G-Wagon. Such blasphemy, even for Reddit! 😀
Should do wonders for sales. 2k a quarter secured
“Hey, we are not making enough money selling these, but I have an idea, just raise the price and we will get more money!”
Cybertruck is such a fail, but I wondered if they figured the only market for it is people who are price insensitive. If you already cared about money at all, you'd never buy this over other cars.
An excellent point made by you! There isn’t a price hike if no units are sold. 😊
At first I was thinking fleet vehicle for some poor agency, but target practice makes much more sense.
That’s true in a vacuum but in this case the brand is so damaged they won’t be able to price their way out of trouble. It’s a car company (sorry, not a tech company), they need to move units. Even Mercedes is pivoting to volume again.
G-Wagon was the douchiest vehicle to drive prior to the Cybertruck, so yes definitely comparable.
Yea I agree. I think this is the strategy. Whether it pays off is another story. Tesla did its best when it was low volume high margin. I think they are trying to go back to those roots. Whether they can or not is another story.
Time and consulting fees will tell!
fElon is up to some grift or another.
There's someone in my neighborhood whose Cybertruck is parked in the driveway. It hasn't been moved an inch in about four months.
It’s already being announced but they’re using it to blow them up
Based on your comment, the stock just tripled
There are enough stupid people out there who want one and will pay the extra.
Well, duh, they had to sacrifice a CT for the pic. No way that it gets out of there by itself.
Elmo is an idiot, plain and simple. An out of touch simpleton surrounded by yes men.
I live in a pretty rural area and saw one in the wild for the first time recently. One cannot appreciate how incredibly ugly they are until you see one up close....
It's actually skyrocketing today, probably because the fundamentals got even worse. Calling TSLA a meme stock is an affront to other meme stocks. TSLA is in a scam category of its own.
did they fix the initial issues? I remember they were really dangerous when they came out, but they seem to keep using them?
someone didn't want to stop for a crosswalk, tried to make their 2020 Y seem like it was a fancy car, I told them if 3-6 cells of the 4000 cells per battery pack died, the car wouldn't be worth fixing, and it wasn't worth as much as a 2021 mazda3, if she could even sell it, I wished her luck with her life and walked off.
A military contract will buy them all for target training I heard.. thanks US tax payer I guess.
Same shitty truck.
I think they mean the Osprey
Not after he said Trump is in the Epstein files.
This. Fanboys probably aren’t price conscious and likely opt for premium options anyway. Most of us would never buy one regardless of price.
They "fix" them for a while, then they fall out of the sky again, there's a bunch of falsified records, wash rinse repeat.
If you're so far gone up Elons butt that you'd buy a Cybertruck to begin with, they're going to treat you like the mark you are.
I'm guessing you were in the crosswalk, and words were exchanged?
The wavy side panels are just *chefs kiss*
They must have made more parts for that Luxe Package than they’ve had takers.
yeah I had the walk light, she put down the window to tell me off, words were exchanged.
For what it’s worth, ALL stocks performed well today.
Well selling them cheaper wasn’t working.
Its probably bricked and they dont want to admit it lol
Its also seriously good off road.
Exactly this. The shameless of the corruption. Sickening
Not really, the Osprey has a major gearbox/transmission issue that increases the risk of engine failure and its also a flaw in the overall design; tiltrotor aircraft are very difficult to autorotate to the ground if one engine fails so in the Osprey's case if one engine goes the aircraft becomes very difficult to control and oftentimes that ends fatally. Its hard to imagine this issue being fixed without a major redesign of the aircraft.
100% this
Cuz of tariffs?
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