Okay what’s your point? People love Tesla. They want the cars so much that they’ll pay huge amounts of money to get them and even more to get them quickly.

Sounds like Toyota is good at making cars people don’t want. What does that say about Toyota?

It says that being trendy can be very profitable in the short term, but being boring and reliable works out well in the long term.

Consider that well over half of all Teslas have to go in for service within the first month of ownership. For such an expensive car, that is not a good look. Look at how many ex-owners now say they'd never buy another and refuse to recommend them to friends. Go ask GM and Ford how hard it is to regain a reputation that you have squandered.

I enjoyed my P3D. Mostly. It went like stink, which is why I bought it. Lots of misfeatures, though, and still missing obvious features every other car has. I'm in the camp of "won't buy one again, unless something big changes, the competition is better." and we are growing quickly in number.

Last year Tesla sold about one million vehicles while Toyota sold about ten million. Are you sure people don't want Toyotas?

> I know nothing about cars

Meanwhile in the real world "Tesla tops the list of most satisfied customers in the entire auto industry"