noone1:
It finishes ahead in one of the most important metrics you overlook -- people actually want them.
An Alpina is definitely not ahead in technology LOL.
How many cars a year does Tesla sell? And how many BMW sells? Case closed I believed. People WANT more Toyotas than Tesla, people wants more Hyundai than Teslas, people WANTS more Mercedes than Teslas. Hell, people WANTS more Porsches than Teslas.
Until Tesla sells enough cars to compete with the mainstream manufacturers, it will always be a boutique manufacturer, small time manufacturer, or some manufacturers that's on death row, like, the same level as a Hudson, AMC, Plymouth, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Mosler. Callaway. Saleen, Saab, RUF, Alpina, (which, btw, can be considered a manufacturer in Europe.) Maybe it will survive and be like Volvo.
BMW/Apline has more taste than Tesla than to simply slap a 17in computer monitor inside a car, and they, and just about anyone else prefer to perfect a 'autopilot' technology before introducing it to kill the buyers. You know, that's bad for business when you kill the purchaser.
Full disclosure, I have a Model 3 on order, but I didn't get in early and I think there are like 400k 'orders' in front of me, so I will likely get my car in 2050 or around there. it's ok, cause I might be death by then or Tesla will be death by then.
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