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Re:Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market by hristov on Monday August 05, 2013 @06:29AM (#6159335)
Fact of the matter is any company is mostly judged based on the market they have chosen to compete in. Tesla make $70K+ cars and they should be judged based on that market.

Porsche (before they were purchased by VW) used to make rather expensive cars and they would always have a rather small percentage of the overall market. But no-one would accuse Porsche of being a failure, because they did very well in their rather lucrative price brackets. In fact Porsche is often called the most successful car company ever due to their big profit margins.

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Re:Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market by larrys on Monday August 05, 2013 @10:30AM (#6160289)
"Porsche (before they were purchased by VW) used to make rather expensive cars "

Porsche still does make "rather expensive cars". What are you referring to exactly?

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Re:Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market by hristov on Monday August 05, 2013 @02:15PM (#6161787)
What I mean is that I am using Porsche as an example only as it pertains to its history of an independent company. I wanted to provide an example of an independent company that is limited to making expensive cars -- i.e., something similar to Tesla.
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