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Old 11-26-2019, 8:45am   #41
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I was making a proton electron charge jole
Shocking he'd spin it that way. We're conducting a civil conversation, but there's a lot of resistance here. There's a potential for so much more, in the current year.

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/27/...old-out-in-us/
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Old 11-30-2019, 8:30am   #43
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Saw a video of a tug of war between the Musk truck and a F150, so the Ford spun the back tires, but at least it had posi, trick is if it had 4wd it may have won the contest.....maybe some weight in the bed too??

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Dubai is in.
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23 hours, 40 min of fapping seems like a lot.
Seems minimal to me.

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I'd bet a dollar they tested it before the unveiling. They set up microscopic cracks from the "in house" testing and when they hit it again for the unveiling, it failed.

A local company makes some of the windows for the stealth fighters and bombers. They test X numbers of pieces out of the lot but any piece tested is NOT shipped for use and it is stressed by the impact.
Deductive reasoning is reasonable.

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If this had happened at Ford - and, without exaggeration it never would have with a modern pickup/SUV - the 1-3 marketing managers and their chosen display show supplier would be looking for new career opportunities by Monday morning. They did not “protect” the brand or their busy senior management from themselves. Engineers and designers know very little about these sorts of presentations and shouldn’t have to be concerned - that’s Marketing’s main responsibility. In watching it, the reveal was a fail on so many levels (sound, lighting, validation of claimed technology, Musk’s extremely unprofessional profanity, scripting without flow or answering obvious questions, and the sense of school-boyish fraternal vibe that didn’t genuinely respect the Tradesmen/Tradeswomen who lead/build our economy and awesome country every day. They acted like kids. that got away with something instead of respecting the target customer (Sportsmen/Sportswomen ...who have reliable access to 220V where they hunt/fish/play - and, perhaps illegal drug runners and preppers needing bullet proof stuff); and, all without explaining or properly demonstrating exactly how their expensive new technology (and, shape that was obviously not greatly market-researched ?) can clearly benefit their customer’s lifestyle. Who the heck in our American automotive industry does that to premier such a proud brand as Tesla.
This reveal will be bottled and shown in future Marketing 101 courses (the long used Edsel fail was getting a little out of date) and extremely difficult for them to recover from, and probably spilling over a little to their remarkable cars’ image and trustworthiness.
Wall Street analysts are not the brightest bunch - they are starry-eyed about technology, chasing the latest shiny object - yet, even they’ve already written off this poorly executed experiment.

You get one chance to make a good impression. In our industry that means a LOT of up-front work. They slacked and it cost them, big. Wish it wasn’t an American fail case.
Beat me to it. Musk was utterly unprepared, perhaps stoned, (perhaps both, likely had little to do with the actual design and build of the vehicle, zero marketing strategy other than “Holy **** that thing is weird but it has an air compressor!”

Sad. I’d drive it.
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Over the last several days I've been around about a dozen millennial/gen-z kids. The subject of Cybertruck came up and every single one of them said they thought it was awesome and wanted one.

Every one of them. Three were women.

Guess what the demographic of the Cybertruck is? It ain't y'all!
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Over the last several days I've been around about a dozen millennial/gen-z kids. The subject of Cybertruck came up and every single one of them said they thought it was awesome and wanted one.

Every one of them. Three were women.

Guess what the demographic of the Cybertruck is? It ain't y'all!
Tesla is still phukked in that instance then. They'll have a smash hit vehicle when (if??) it comes online and the target demo will be unable to afford it.
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That sold me....order placed



bought one for my Asian wife also
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