Tesla motors which doesn’t produce more than 100 cars a year is comparing itself to Detroit, an industry that will make more cars in the next hour than this company will achieve in the next year.

Yet they still are going after 350 million

Not to say it’s bad, but apples to apples please.

Journalistic integrity to the wind

But think of this. The Tesla is like the Model A precursor. It is the beginning of a better idea. Affordable cars from Detroit? I stopped buying those “affordable” junks and bought a used Honda Accord that has served me better than all of the American cars I have ever owned put together and I have owned many in my lifetime; and the Accord was made right here in the USA…how odd?

You seem to be overlooking the very critical element that would actually save the Detroit automakers….sales. You can throw tax payers money at the Big Three all day long, if they don’t sell something that’s worth buying to people who can afford and/or qualify for a loan to buy a new car then they might just as well jump head first into the abyss and save us all a lot of money because, Steve, until all of those companies that have laid off millions of good American workers to take advantage of Red Communist Chinese child slave labor returns and rehires – OR – some of us enterprising businessmen decide to revitalize the mighty American domestic manufacturing machine, about the only thing we’ll be able to qualify for a loan for is a bicycle.

Personally, I think my 2 year old PT Cruiser that I paid $9,000 for and gets 26-27 mpg in normal driving in all kinds of conditions and can take me all the way across the country, driving 500-700 miles before I have to stop and rest, and hauls 4 people and luggage easily, or alternatively about 40 bags of mulch for the lawn, is a far better deal than a $110,000 car that goes 200 miles between charges, which take several hours to accomplish, and only carries 2 people with hardly any luggage space.

I’m very impressed with Tesla and wish them much success, especially in reducing the cost of their cars, but I’m very curious as to how many of you Detroit bashers out there have actually placed your down payment on a new Tesla. If you haven’t, then I suggest you do so soon, because if Detroit doesn’t get the bridge loans from the government very soon, you can kiss those affordable cars like my PT Cruiser goodbye.