[mckn1ght]

Apples to apples means comparing based off of the objectively observable traits of the cars in question: seating and storage capacity, etc. The price of the cars is more or less arbitrary. Comparing cars on price alone makes no sense. A porsche 911 is multiple times the cost of a minivan, does that mean its utility is that many times higher than a minivan for a family of 4?

[djao]

The point remains. If a Tesla is a privileged expensive purchase then so is the average new car. There is no possible way of refuting this statement. It is simply mathematically unavoidably true.