A pretty damning read on Tesla

Criticism is great, but it needs to be connected to reality in some form. Toyota is the largest auto manufacturer in the world. Sales are increasing. Profits are increasing. Good margins. Not only that, Toyota is increasing their lead over the competition. Toyota is the global top dog and by all appearances things are going great.

I assure you, Toyota has warehouses full of accountants doing nothing else but calculating which models are making money for them. I straight up don’t believe your claim is Toyota’s key to success is to reduce their product selection. That claim is simply not credible.

Now, if their margins, sales, market share, and profits, were all falling like–I don’t know, say Telsa–then yes. Toyota should absolutely take a knife to their business model. Because clearly something would be amiss. But in the meantime, your suggestion they stop doing the things that made them successful makes literally zero sense.

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