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Keep in mind how poorly built Teslas are and how hard it is to get them repaired...also, they have a lot of crashes because the zombies that drive them assume 'auto pilot' too literally..

Should look at trucks. 1-yr old Sierra at same site is at 85% value. But go via KBB.com and it's private party value is 96%... vs. sticker. But vs. what I paid, my Sierra is at 109% resale value.

My daughters 1999 Durango needed work and I have no time, so took it to a we respected local auto repair place today, found this dodge and old Toyota there being worked on.

Nope! No way! NOT like that! NOT based on the Alpha Camaro. NOT based on the short wheel base Alpha... Although that rendering looks great, as a Buick or otherwise, the GSX is not a pony car and its definitely not a pony car sized muscle car... The Zeta platform might have been a better fit for a GSX. But GM DOES have a vehicle of THAT size in its arsenal right NOW even if the Zeta platform is no longer in production. The Cadillac CT5 on the longer wheel base Alpha is where a potential GSX should be based on. The rendering is just basically a Camaro with a pseudo Buick front end. A Buick GSX on a Cadillac CT5 oriented platform with a 1970-1971 Buick A-Body window quarter panel look instead of the Cadillac's weird reverse Hoffmeister kink should be the goal. Yes, the Camaro seems to have that type of window quarter panel style as a 1970/1971 Chevelle/Skylark, its the short wheelbase and interior space that fails the necessary GSX specifications for a possible new GSX. Kevin Morgan of Trans Am Depot of Wordwide Trans Am has already made renders like these for GM A Bodys almost a decade ago. And the company actually built the GTO, from a Zeta Camaro, for which they did the Trans Am, which they continue to do the Trans Am on the Alpha Camaro. The article also stupidly says that if GM/Buick would want to take on the (Dodge) Challenger, with their Buick brand then they should use the slow selling Camaro as a basis...blah blah blah... There are several stupid things stated in that article that does NOT make a sense or is not the reality of things. Buick was never a Dodge competitor. Not then. Not today. The Challenger and Charger were never a Buick Skylark (GSX) competition even though all three were muscle cars sold in the muscle car era. The Challenger today enjoys a real uptick in popularity, especially over its Camaro competition, because of careful and precise identity marketing for itself solidifying not only the Challenger and Charger as real deal muscle cars, but the brand as well. Dodge also has the Durango, an otherwise mundane SUV like all of them, that Dodge has created a muscle truck out of it. Buick on the other hand... The Camaro has reinvented itself not only as a muscle car, but MORE than a muscle car. The Camaro is a true world dominating sports car. Its exterior dimensions are more world friendly, its performance specs are also more world centric rather than just being a North American specific straight line performer. The Camaro's failures are not about identity, its more about being stale. There is no excitement. Buick's problems are kinda like the Camaro's. And unlike Dodge's. Buick has NO identity. Buick has gotten stale. Buick has NO coupes or sedans. For DECADES, Buick has lost focus of what it is and what its supposed to be. Dodge and its muscle cars have had laser focus of what they are and what they wanna be for...DECADES. It started out slowly with the Viper back in 1994, but steadily made itself into a performance, muscle car brand. Especially the last decade or so. The Camaro has been laser focused into what it wants to be going forward since it came back in 2010. But has become stale. Cadillac has been laser focused with their "V" models. A GSX recreation will NOT solve Buick's problems. A GSX on ANY Alpha platform will NOT be an instant success. There is no marketing that has been hinted at, looked at, explored at for any GSX revival. Out of the blue will not make it a success. In a CUV/SUV world where coupes and sedans are dying, what makes you think a GSX will be a success? In a changing world where the internal combustion engine is looked upon as being evil, old and not relevant anymore and is being phased out by the very company that owns the model name GSX, what makes you think that the GSX will be a success as an internal combustion engine, 2 door muscle car that most of us have no idea what a GSX even is? That boat has sailed for Buick to consider itself a turnaround with muscle car nameplates of the past. Buick, although Buick's V8s were powerful with gobs of torque, Buick never really had a performance image. Unlike Dodge... Buick should think of what image they want their buyers want to be experiencing when buying and driving Buicks, and they should build THAT very vehicle. And I feel that American luxury is what they should be concentrating on since THAT is what Buick was ALWAYS about. What Lincoln is doing. Not what Dodge is doing. My 2 cents.

This is exactly what I was trying to convey. About how hard Teslas are hard to repair. Because of various Tesla specific idiosyncrasies. Forgot about the 'auto pilot' thing and how stupid Tesla sheeple zombies could be. And therefore insurance actuaries take THAT into account too.