8 year owner of a tesla here. just stating facts.
not really relevant to the discussion.
hence, the "competition is coming (for a while)" argument. back to the first point - just stating facts. so why are you feeling "unattractive and not cool" vibes when you're just saying what I said?
Just because there's no need to spend your entire day defending Tesla in a Mac website forum - it is what it is - people have a bad view of Tesla now more than ever and it's largely down to Musk.
I mean the build quality isn't great - Mine was a £90,000 car and the door shuts like a £10,000 car. It's also dropped in value more than any car and anything i've ever owned in my life - it's value is now so low it's not even worth selling. It makes much more sense for me to tear it apart when i've had enough. I'm going to use the battery as a house battery, with the right inventor it's 7x bigger than most house batteries.
I actually quite liked the cybertruck when it was first announced but seeing how poorly it is made and how toxic that vehicle has become I think it'd be better to drive around in anything else.
In a way to proliferation of the Model 3 on the roads killed the brand a bit for me too - it was nice when it was just the S and the X and we waved at each other and we had loads of supercharger space - now there's like a thousand Model 3s every time I leave the house.
As you are showing though people are fiercely defendant of their favourite brands for whatever reason. Tesla had a lot of that, but it's also lost a lot of that now - Musk has pushed many of those people away. To be honest I never bought into him, I knew little of him in 2017 when I got the S, then I saw a keynote for the first time and thought he was an awful speaker and my opinion of him has gone down hill from there. I enjoyed it early on where have this eccentric goofy owner meant you'd get fun silly apps in the car that whilst you never used them gave it a personality and vibe that no other car brand had - it made up for the cheap interior - but that eccentricity spiralled and led to what we have to do, someone so publicly known and toxic that it cannot be positive for a consumer facing brand.
I'd like to see Tesla rescued before it is too late but with the board heavily stacked in Elon's favour and a bubble of stock value even now that can never be realised it's not looking likely. Which is a shame.