> They made good cars before Elon joined Tesla

Musk became CEO of Tesla in Oct 2008.

As of Sept 10, 2008, Tesla had delivered 27 cars to customers.

That's about as "technically correct and practically wrong" as I've seen.

What's wrong here? It's not like Elon designed the model S, Mercedes engineers along with Tesla ones did. Mercedes invested in 10% of Tesla and even ordered Tesla batteries for Mercedes models. But found Tesla didn't test their batteries for durability and safety. Mercedes reduced the range of their B models and added shielding to compensate. Tesla owners had to learn the hard way after several Model S cars caught on fire. Tesla fixed it after the fact.

I wouldn't trust a company cutting so many corners. Recent recall is another example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tesla-newera-insigh...

Tesla has sold over 1,000,000 cars at this point. Over 99.997% of those were sold after Musk was CEO.

So, while it's technically absolutely true that "they sold cars before Elon joined", it's a literal rounding error.

Here I am, trying to give credit to Tesla's success to the countless engineers and designers who did 99.9% of the work. By your own math, what Elon did is a rounding error.

You think that if the bottom 50% of America, which can't afford a surprise 1000$ bill, is going to sit on 10k+ and not try to spend it? I have to disagree.