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Tesla is a premium product at best, they absolutely aren't a luxury item. The S and X possibly, but most of the vehicles they sell aren't particularly expensive.
It starts at 42,000 as base model - it absolutely is a luxury product.
First of all, $42,000 is very average for a basic family car nowadays.
Second of all, with incentives and tax credits, that's more like $30,000-$35,000 depending where you live.
Third of all, owning an EV is considerably cheaper than owning a dino-burner. No oil changes. No fluid changes. You charge at home for an order of magnitude cheaper than gas (unless you buy one of those GM cinderblock Hummers or F150s something equally ~~stupid~~ American). A $42,000 car with no scheduled maintenance, fuel costs, or mechanical repairs is surprisingly affordable compared to a dino-burner at the same sticker price.
Fourth of all, even at only two years old, you can pretty easily and regularly find Model 3s for sale at 50% or more depreciation from new. Add in the tax credit for used EVs and a 2 year old family sedan for $17,500 with no gas or oil changes to ever buy starts to become a pretty good deal.
Fifth of all, I cannot stress enough how completely unwilling most people are to completely reverse direction on a $xx,xxx financial commitment because it suddenly becomes a fad among internet nerds to get pissed off about it. If you people would step outside yourselves for five goddamn seconds and look at what you're doing, I would be so happy.
Elon blows goats. Fuck up his goat farm. Don't fuck over regular people just living their lives.
Such a great deal you replied to me trice?
42 thousand for a brand new vehicle, and you think that's a luxury item?
Bear in mind, the idea of an electric vehicle is you pay more up front, and less in running costs.
Thats 3 budget vehicles, no? Any other product that's costs 3x of a budget version price is a luxury product.
It's also less than half the price of a 7 series BMW, which is a vehicle most people would consider a "luxury" vehicle.
Luxury just means certain point beyond normal price. If doesn't mean the most expensive option.
https://www.moneygeek.com/resources/average-price-of-a-new-car/
The average price of a new vehicle in the US is 48k. That's what most people would consider "normal price"
Man ametican finace education is beyond redemption at this point. No wonder your election was designed by egg prices 🙄
I'm not American.