Tesla's Elon Musk Ramps UP His Take Down Of The Media — Is He Onto Something Though?

Tesla's only hope is to deliver a quality product.

The point at which 6-month old Model 3's which are disabled or need to be fixed due to a recall (brakes?) start needing to be flat bedded back to the service centers for a multi-week stay there, will be the death-nell.

Hooray that Tesla has some new customers - lets see how rah-rah they are when their cars are laid up in service for two weeks or a month (as was common 6 months - 18 months with the new Model S and Model X launches).

There are two few Model 3's for this statistic to be out there yet, but trust me, the flat-bed trips are coming if history is a predictor

That would be 6 month old to 18 month old vehicles which need to be fixed to basically get them fully functional because development time was inadequate.

Given that the Model 3 owners are less affluent than Model S owners, the Model 3 owners are far less likely to put up with Tesla's well-documented quality lapses and egregious reliability woes.

This will be a repeat of the the story of the American Passat where customers new to Volkswagen suddenly believed they could afford a VW, so they bought and bought. Then VW's notorious sh!+ storm of low quality, mediocre reliability, and--once out of the brief warranty--insanely high repair costs set it and sent the Passat's sales into a free fall.

Many of the Model 3 buyers are likely to have had positive experiences with Toyotas and Hondas--among others--that were reliable, durable, and worked without issue.

Reading about Tesla's impending doom is quite amusing, although most points are lacking originality - they are either said before or plucked from somewhere else. I wonder where the 6-month, 12-month or 18-month clock comes from, but I think it helps if everyone gets one, especially the American Big 3.

Elon Musk is about as transparent as a three year old. And roughly just as intelligent. Elon Musk, blowhard jerk.

I'd also add overcompensatory and megalomaniac.

Nobody with a voice in a position of power should be criticizing the pillars of a free open and democratic society just because they don't like the message. Some people in a position of power think they can shape the truth because of their role. Be it a CEO, a Prime Minister or a sitting President. If you don't like what they say about you or your firm, rebuke it with facts, correct things so their statements are not true anymore or don't respond at all. Trying to sell a counter-narrative that is false will only serve to weaken your position.

Whenever you don't like what the media says about you, do your best to discredit the media rather than addressing the (valid) points they make.

This is a popular tactic amongst those who can't take criticism. It's a sign of a fragile ego; needing a lot of stroking.

Sounds like an orange douchebag I know.

I do think it is difficult to find neutral/bipartisan publications that just report the facts and let people make their own opinions of it. I'm not a fan of either CNN or Fox for these reasons. Politico is pretty neutral but still a little left. A yelp for media does not sound like a bad idea, but it should be run by a neutral organization with nothing at stake and not Elon Musk.

Clearly,TheSteve thinks the media, oops his precious CNN, is purer than the driven snow.

God knows the corporate media are flawed. But the problems ascribed by Musk and his inspiration, Trump, are not actual problems. Both simply want to discredit the media so that when the media does get it right, no one will believe them but rather Musk and Trump's deliberate lies.
Musk has ads over accurate reporting which cuts through his theoretically illegal lies, Trump I shouldn't need to address (but you can always check his Twitter feed). (A lot of what Musk says about TSLA appears to be stuff that he knows is wrong that he claims in order to goose the stock price -- stock manipulation, usually illegal. Of course, he might just be full of crap.)
If one can't trust a serial bullshitter toe critique reportage, who can you trust?
As I said, the corporate media is flawed more than enough. Endemic liars, acting in support of their unearned and undeserved credibility -- enabling more BS -- is not a solution.

NYT and Top Gear both "dramaticized" battery life limitations about five years ago. A lot of people still hate electric, so I assume any type of click-bait article about TSLA is going to generate ad revenue.