May 29, 2009 8:24 AM PDT Yup, should be a story about Lotus, not Tesla. And it's a rare wonder for a company to make "house calls", no matter how high end the car. If this happened on your Porsche or Mercedes-Benz or Ferrari or any other high-end car, you wouldn't see them coming to you!
While we're on the subject. Why is it that the US government is bailing out Chrysler and GM on the condition that they explore and produce electric vehicles when Tesla is producing viable cars NOW!? Tesla had to look for funding on its own. What was it, a measly $100 million investment? That's a bargain when compared to the untold BILLIONS shelled out to Chrysler and GM. And GM and Chrysler are still losing money. There's no guarantee they'll ever be profitable again. And they did it to themselves. GM had a viable electric vehicle ten years ago, but instead of continuing its development, they trashed it. They preferred to build gas guzzling SUVs and trucks. They deserve to burn. Give that money to startups like Aptera and Tesla that have viable cars. Lift restrictions on letting foreign manufacturers (many of which have plants in the US) import their vehicles here, as is. Give them cash to let them produce European spec cars here in the US. That'll put people to work in a hurry. Instead, lobbyists and politicians are going to run us even further into the ground. I'll never own an American branded car again, ever, with the possible exception of Tesla. Reply to this comment by Dalkorian May 29, 2009 12:13 PM PDT Here we go again. Why doesn't it ever occur to people that the reason GM was building SUV's and trucks was because that's what people were buying in the showrooms? Personally, I never walked onto a car lot and had a salesman hold a gun to my head, demanding I buy a truck or SUV. Never once. Yet trucks and SUV's sold like hot cakes. Was I alone in not being threatened, or could you be mistaken?
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