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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well VW is still around. Maybe Teslas will be classic cars in 80 years.

/s: They will all self immolate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

VWs never randomly caught fire. And also they don't look like if Transformers could somehow breed, but had an abortion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This.

And VWs were survivors, crossing the desert under air cooling and repairable usually with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. The rear bumper can hold a grown man perched back there manually pulling the throttle if you bust the linkage ... or, so I ... hear.

I worry Teslas wouldn't survive long enough to become classics. They don't seem to be survivors.

/63+71+71super here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I checked on where Edsel prices have gone. They mostly match inflation. Not a worthwhile investment as a car that people are interested in decades later because it's an infamous failure.