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NewsaHackO 2 hours ago

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estearum 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tesla's most recent project was the largest flop in automotive history lol.

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mrheosuper 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean Cybertruck? Hate it or not, there are bigger flops in automotive history. The history is long and broad.

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pseudosavant 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not many. Elon said their plan was to produce 500k per year and they did less than 5% (15k) of that over the last year. Their installed production capacity is 125k.

The Ford Edsel is widely regarded as one of the greatest car flops of all time and it sold 60k cars per year for their 2-year production run.

The CyberTruck is a massively bigger flop than that.

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estearum 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Name a few that you think are bigger and by what metric you think so.

I doubt any program has lost the $1 to $1.5 billion that Cybertruck is reasonably estimated to have lost. And that’s including their quarter where SpaceX bought like 20% of their production for definitely-totally-legitimate-reasons.

	▲	mrheosuper a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The EU Fortwo > https://www.drive.com.au/news/europes-biggest-loss-making-ca...
	▲	m463 26 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Following a loss of over $250 million (equivalent to $2.72 billion in 2025 dollars) on development, manufacturing, and marketing on the model line, Ford quietly discontinued the Edsel brand in November 1959, shortly after the 1960 model line was introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel

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bdangubic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

definitely not biggest flop but it has by far the biggest hype-to-flop ratio.

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henrikschroder 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The latest car Tesla released, the cybertruck, was one of the biggest automotive flops ever, production is essentially halted, demand is non-existant.

Tesla announced and started taking reservations for their roadster TEN YEARS AGO. People who made reservations and paid the $50k-$250k cost are STILL WAITING.

And now Tesla has announced yet another vapourware car, with a controversial design, taking reservation money again.

If you fall for this, you are a fool.

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LastTrain 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t hate Tesla, I do think their leader is a Nazi Saluting prick though. You like him?

	▲	mjmsmith 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't hate Tesla either. I'm actually a bit disappointed knowing that I will never consider buying one for the rest of my life.