Tesla Takes the State of Michigan To Court Over Direct Sales Ban

Yeah, screw the D3 in this regard. If you make a better product you'll do fine and put them out. This only shows me the D3 are a bunch of babies afraid to make a great product.

As much as I love GM, I have to agree with ccap41 and others that in today's 21st century, companies should have the right to sell direct and not have to have a dealership. Tesla has Petboys work on their auto's so that does not conflict with the manufacturer working on their own auto's.

Direct sales rock!  

Direct sales will happen...sooner than most think.....

So are the only places to ban Tesla sales Michigan and North Korea?

1 hour ago, smk4565 said:

So are the only places to ban Tesla sales Michigan and North Korea?

Per the Bloomberg story,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/tesla-lawsuit-claims-michigan-direct-sales-ban-unconstitutional

The only states that bane direct sales are Michigan, Texas, Connecticut and Utah.  

That's convenient, but these automakers forget their own history. Before GM, Ford or Chrysler were big names with national dealers and all that, how DID they sell their wares out of their fledgling garages? 

The history shows that these laws were all agreed upon by the big 3 and have been in the books for decades to prevent just this sort of thing.  So what has changed?

Americans wouldn't know a free market even if they were pimp-smacked by the invisible hand.

2 hours ago, Wings4Life said:

The history shows that these laws were all agreed upon by the big 3 and have been in the books for decades to prevent just this sort of thing.  So what has changed?

21st century technology and the Internet, ya know that thing that that idiot demobot said he created!

In all honesty, today's technology has allowed people to do their own research, schedule a test drive if they want or just buy it online. As such, new auto companies do not see the need for the ancient 20th century laws.

Gotta change with the changing times. As long as there is no monopoly, there is no reason a company should not be able to sell direct.

On 9/22/2016 at 1:51 PM, ccap41 said:

Yeah, screw the D3 in this regard. If you make a better product you'll do fine and put them out. This only shows me the D3 are a bunch of babies afraid to make a great product.

Agreed!

11 hours ago, dfelt said:

21st century technology and the Internet, ya know that thing that that idiot demobot said he created!

In all honesty, today's technology has allowed people to do their own research, schedule a test drive if they want or just buy it online. As such, new auto companies do not see the need for the ancient 20th century laws.

Gotta change with the changing times. As long as there is no monopoly, there is no reason a company should not be able to sell direct.

Internet is cool in regards to car buying. Would love to buy direct myself.

11 hours ago, bigpoolog said:

Americans wouldn't know a free market even if they were pimp-smacked by the invisible hand.

Nor do they really want one.  They seem very comfortable with the marginal quality provided by large corporations that do not have consumer interests in mind.