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by nikau 1356 days ago
Sandy has his own agendas - since he started to buy tesla stock I take his commentary with a grain of salt.

You notice when he talked about a failed casting he didn't mention anything around the fact that castings are brittle relative to sheet metal and bits can snap off vs flex.

So something like a suspension mounting point can break off the casting and that's a write off as its very hard if not impossible to weld back.

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Actually Munro has sold all his TSLA stock, which wasn’t much to begin with, precisely to address any criticism about being biased.

Munro actually started off being severely critical about Tesla’s build quality, but once they started tearing down the vehicle, started realizing the superior manufacturing prowess of Tesla, they switched focus and bet their company on electric vehicles being the future.

I’ve been following Munro for over a decade, I’m involved in the automotive sector, nothing to do with Tesla, I’ve seen Munro’s full evolution and 180 turnaround on Tesla.