Jason aka “The Bauminater” 📐🌘🚀🐶

I’ve owned a Tesla since 2021, from a Model Y to a Cybertruck. I’ve owned and driven tons of vehicles and nothing compares to a Tesla. From 5 star crash ratings to FSD, they are the safest cars on the road. I’m happy to answer any questions that you have. If you’re ready to make the change, feel free to use my referral code: ts.la/jason65792

@SawyerMerritt Reminds me of this

@TeslaFamBen @Scobleizer Leaf me alone

"You aren't getting it," a friend who lives in China told me after I said the new Ferrari is ugly. "This is gonna sell well with China's new rich." But why is a story of changing attitudes amongst car buyers, particularly in China. In a world where everyone around you is driving a new electric car, which is true in many Chinese cities now, showing up with a loud gas car just doesn't fit in anymore. Imagine you are a new rich factory owner in Shanghai. Do you want to drive around in a loud Ferrari, like I dreamed about doing when I was a kid? No. Chinese culture is about fitting in, about caring what everyone else thinks. Worse, in China they are going electric so fast that you can see the writing on the wall for gas. Soon gas stations will disappear altogether in major cities. And cars that pollute and put fumes into the air are already being seen as artifacts of an age that needs to die quickly, particularly in cities with 40 million people. Ferrari's sales are way down in China. New car brands there like @Xiaomi, @XPENG_Global, @NIOGlobal, @BYDCompany, and @HongqiGlobal are taking share with vehicles that have much more innovation than even this new Ferrari has. What are my credentials to talk about Ferrari? Well, I've studied automotive innovation my whole life. Audi taught me to race. I had the first ride in the Fiat 500, the BMW i3, the Tesla Roadster, the first Mercedes AI car, and a few others. Have hung out with many billionaires who have Ferraris, went on a famous car rally with such last year to study buyers of super cars, and car collectors, among other things. And I did consumer research about attitudes toward new innovations, like autonomy, around the world. But it goes deeper than just China, which buys more cars that USA and Europe combined. Ferrari is run by people who love to drive and love to drive gas cars with loud, big, engines. In USA that makes sense. My friend Scott Jordan, who owns a clothing company in Sun Valley, Idaho, has one, and within a few minutes from his home he can be on some of the best driving roads in the world. We argue about cars all the time, and he probably never will buy a Tesla. Loves the sound the Ferrari makes. And the design of the hand stitched leather dash. He hates this new Ferrari. Could never see himself in one. But his counterpart in China? Will never get onto a pretty road. When I was last in Shanghai I drove for hours and never stopped seeing high rise buildings with stop and go traffic. Americans can't grok that. They don't want a dirty, gas, car, that makes a lot of noise in China. All traditional luxury brands (another way for saying $500,000 or more for a car) are seeing sales declines for this reason. They also get on race tracks far less frequently than we can here in America. Which is where you can really enjoy a Ferrari. In fact, the luxury brands are more of a club than buying a car. I once hung out with the Bugatti owners from around the world (one of the benefits of living within walking distance of the Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton). They told me that it is a club and that Bugatti flies their cars around the world for a variety of driving experiences. Makes sense, the last thing a billionaire wants to hear while on vacation is a pitch for a new startup, or someone begging for money (same thing, really). So they have a club experience that keeps them separated from those kinds. The Chinese buyer cares more about innovation than those of us in USA do. You see this in their vehicles, which have big huge screens covering the dash, and seats that rub their backs, and even suspensions that "hop" over potholes, not to mention autonomy that drives them everywhere in stop and go traffic. It's one reason why China's government has kept Tesla from really turning on its autonomy, which is slightly ahead of the Chinese brands. As a Tesla investor I am watching that closely. Speaking of Tesla, its new Roadster that we should see "within months" according to @elonmusk and his main designer @woodhaus2, should capture the world's attention, and especially the new rich in China. But will it be allowed into China in a world where USA doesn't allow Chinese cars to be imported here? The answer to that question is way above my pay grade. But if it were, it'd be a massive competitor to this new Ferrari. Why? Well, Ferrari's innovation just isn't there for this new consumer. It doesn't self drive. Its screens are smaller than any of those new Chinese brands, many of which started out making smartphones and other consumer electronics. And that leads to this design that is rightfully getting derided. Ferrari doesn't like being pushed into this new world of electric, screens, and autonomy. If it could it'd go back to an all-analog car, which is what most of the buyers of Ferrari like, taking them back to their childhood. I can just imagine what Jony Ive had to do to come up with even the design he was able to ship here. Consumers used to like buttons. Old people, particularly billionaires, still do. Takes them back to familiarity and tactile senses. They still talk about how much they love the buttons and knobs in their old cars. But the new Chinese consumers grew up with smartphones and iPads you can touch. Many of them carry around @Huawei triple fold phones, that, when unfolded look like an iPad. We don't have those in America yet and Apple is rumored to be bringing a single fold device to America later this year. Such a consumer is more impressed by big screens and automation than loud engines and fast speeds. But the new rich want to stand out. Often they are running factories or tech companies where most of the engineers have Teslas or one of the new Chinese brands. How do they stand out? Roll up in one of these. And now you understand why the design of this car is so ugly. Ferrari doesn't want its traditional consumer to buy it. And didn't want a mind-blowing aggressive design that would make its traditional customer pissed that it was "going electric." It's all about trying to regain share in China.

I asked Grok to remake the new Ferrari into an actually cool car Companies should use Grok to design cars!

This really needs to be fixed! Legit people should not have their accounts suspended!

@Scobleizer Growing up, one of my neighbors owned the Phoenix Rolls Royce dealership Max of Switzerland. I never appreciated their beauty (they always had 1-2 in the garage). I wonder if Rolls will follow suit.

@laughingorgasm 🤣🤣🤣

@bauminater For some reason i hear “fuck off” in Robin Williams voice☺️

I really need a laugh right now, anyone have any good memes?

@RimaSukhadia Small, nimble and mighty

Golden Cybercabs Prod and Pre-Prod are everywhere in Austin; golden bois are fast in thunderstorms ✨

@bauminater Wah, wah! 🤦🏽‍♀️

@niccruzpatane The AMC Pacer has entered the chat

The Top 5 Ugliest Car Designs of All-Time: • Chrysler PT Cruiser • Pontic Aztek • Fiat Multipla • Nissan Cube • $640,000 Ferrari Luce EV

@SawyerMerritt Everyone thought the Cybertruck would have laser wipers. For $640,000 I’d want laser wipers! Major fail

This is how the windshield wipers work on the new $640,000 all-electric Ferrari Luce.

@cybrtrkguy Laughs in Bakersfield…🤣

Bro has never experienced Nebraska

@Jones1 Saw video earlier where they mentioned the Cybertruck in a video about the new Ferrari EV

Everyone That Has Had A Chance To Own It Knows It’s True.

@bauminater 😂😂 Good one!

Leaked transcript from Jony Ive’s reveal video for the new Ferrari Luce: When we sat down to reimagine the Italian supercar, we arrived at something deeply inevitable. By courageously removing the passion and heritage of Ferrari, we achieved a profoundly magical simplification. A meticulously crafted, uninterrupted slab of unapologetic beige. Notice the aerospace-grade al-you-min-ee-um steering accents, chamfered to a flawless finish. And in the center, a singular pane of glass seamlessly floating in space; which is absolutely not just an iPad Pro glued to the dashboard. It is the most beautifully clinical, magically sterile driving experience we have ever created. And for an unapologetic $640,000, we think the two Dubai princes who actually buy it are going to love it.

@TeslaTravelstx Excellent!

Got the boys campsite all set up!

@RetiredYoungNW Have fun!

Headed out to celebrate my big 5-0. Fun times ahead.

Lars Moravy in new interview on why the @Tesla Model S and Model X were discontinued: "Every 5 years or so Euro NCAP updates their protocols. Looking forward, they are getting more stringent. Some of the IIHS stuff. We want to make the safety cars on the road, and that means always making structural updates. We were at the point where this platform, like it was never designed for the small overlap and the offset cases that exist now on Europe NCAP and IIHS. We made bandaids along the way to make sure it was being safe in those positions, but it was just like man it's going to be a massive overhaul. At the same time, going back to the room it was like we were talking about Optimus and like where do we put Optimus and it was like well we got to spend you know however many hundreds of millions of dollars to redo this in this factory, but we also need a pilot factory for Optimus. And it just kind of was like serendipitous. I think that the two things went hand in hand. You said who was the first one to bring it up. The future is autonomous. These cars were the first ones we designed. They're the least ready for that, you know, world. So, we got to move forward." Sounds like it just wasn't worth the investment, since it was likely going to cost several hundreds of millions to retool and redesign, and maybe even more to build a pilot Optimus factory somewhere else, when it would just make more sense to use the S/X space in the Fremont factory. (You can listen to the full interview in Ryan’s post below)

@TeslaBoomerMama Now that would have been epic!

I am convinced (yet know nothing) that Elon had hoped financial services on X would be operational by now, to issue the IPO shares to retail here instead of having to use the traditional banks and brokers. Oh well ... ✨️

@congressdj Shoulda let me vote twice 🤣

Wow. A whole 13 votes. My ratings should be through the roof.