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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by beenBoutIT on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:30PM (#17914424)
Tesla has maybe sold 200,000 cars world-wide over the course of 15 years, by its own estimate. GM sold close to 4 times that many vehicles in the US alone in Q2 of 2018. Teslas are rare.

https://www.gm.com/investors/sales/us-sales-production.html

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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by beat on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:34AM (#17917761)
Tesla Model S outsells the BMWs, Mercedes, and Audis in its class. Those aren't considered rare and exotic.
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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by Diederich on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:44AM (#17915083)
300,000 as of February: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.

Current production rate is 107,000/year, more than 1% of GMs 10million/year.

However, your point stands: Teslas are, at this point, relatively rare.

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