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TSLA fell 18% in a week after Q2 EPS of $0.33 missed consensus and free cash flow swung to negative $1.09 billion.
The Cybertruck sold one-sixth of Musk's 250,000-unit annual projection and posted the steepest sales decline of any U.S. EV nameplate in 2025.
Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Tesla didn't make the cut.
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors got a brutal reminder last week that ambitious targets can curdle into cautionary tales. A Bloomberg report published July 22, 2026 argued the Cybertruck has eclipsed the Ford Edsel as the auto industry's benchmark commercial flop on a target-versus-actual basis. Hours later, Tesla posted a Q2 earnings miss, and the stock logged its worst week since 2022.
PS Elon is a nazi
Renza0
I shall forever be impressed by the swasticar at its ability to look incredibly fucking stupid in photos, and somehow be immensely worse in person.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
messedabout
More!
huey9k
That the Cybertruck is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History is frankly shocking, considering that the Yugo is right there...
MendoncycleSmith
Good.
clonedeeznuts
PS, Ford was founded by a Nazi
KillingTlme
When your products are worth less than 0.05% of your companies stock, you shouldn't exist.
HandoB4Javert
SirDaemos
I had two of them in my neighborhood that I saw frequently 2-3 years ago. One was the standard shitty N64 model. The other was painted matte black with "cybertruck" written in red cyberpunk lettering on the back. I haven't seen either in at least a year. I hope both owners took a bath and their shitty trucks just stopped working. I doubt either had a come to Jesus moment.
manystripes
The idea that a car company would belong in a list of top 10 AI stocks is just bonkers to begin with. Diversifying is one thing, but this feels more like they're abandoning their core business to chase the latest trend
TheVillageGrouch9000
Ekaris9
Ah yes, the Incel camino, the swastikar, the panzerwanken, the KKKlown-car.
jojoyojimbi
i won't be happy until tesla is worth negative money
TheGrumpyOldTroll
They misspelled Wankpanzer
SecurityBadger
Even the VW Type 181 ("The Thing") had better riz.
tamanostre
So here's my question: what changed? He's been blowing smoke up everyone's ass for years about Tesla. There was no reason to expect spacex to be any different.
ButtscratchMcPherson
EVERY Musk company has been over hyped stock scams. I'm still amazed after 30 years watching the stock market how Wall Street is completely incapable of evaluating tech/internet stocks. Seems like the entire community is scared ****less of "missing the next Microsoft/Facebook/Amazon/etc."
Aranon1183
The soulsucking shit-hole I'm stuck in is seemingly singlehandedly keeping Tesla limping along... There's four cybertrucks here, and roughly half the sedans are fuck-ass Teslas.
jonhamsandwich11
ramblercomet5772
I don't care what you say, I love my Cybertruck. And I'm not crying; I poked my eye on that pointy bit of the trunk.
18booma
Sarcasm too subtle for the online world
Fargus57
I enjoy that they have zero trade-in/resale value. Owners are stuck with them.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
Already overvalued by 100/ share
bippityboppitybuttsex
*Overvalued by 308 a share
[it was $309.22 when I wrote this]
bippityboppitybuttsex
A reminder that the Edsel was also not just a poor seller, it was a bad car... poor build quality, and a push button transmission that didn't work.
I will note that the Cybertruck is also a bad car, with poor build quality, serious safety concerns (gas pedal getting jammed, a hood that will cut off fingers, a cast aluminum frame that shatters if you tow anything and everyone you drive past giving you the finger cuz you are a Nazi.
TBH, Ford and Musk are both Nazis, so they share that as well
ilovebigmutts
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/27/trump-michigan-speech-rally-updates--live/91039874007/
bippityboppitybuttsex
There is no set of circumstances where I would buy any American car.
My household has been buying Japanese for the past 30 years and will continue to do so.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
One nice thing about Ford though is that he's dead.
zekybomb
Also the Edsel sold more units than the cybertruck in a market with less than half the number of cars
netharia
I'd imagine part of this is because Edsel was a whole line of cars, not a single vehicle.
ChloeRed
My thought on your comment was "Technically the cybertruck is a whole line of cars... sat unsold in multiple places" ;)
vampirelibrarian
I see a lot of cyber trucks going around painted colors now as if that makes them look any better
AllegedlyUncleTonton
Wasn't the Edsel a usable car that could at least be considered interesting?
dudeinjapan
One drove past me on a Tokyo street a couple weeks back, so yes. I’ll find the video and post it.
NocturnalPigeon
There were multiple Edsel models. Not just one.
BrickSprickly
Lol yes
LtRooney
They did include several innovative features that eventually became standard and, when assembled correctly, were fine mid-range cars. Edsels had pretty serious build issues, they were made on Ford and Mercury assembly lines. Workers had to swap in Edsel parts bins whenever one came down the line but weren't given time in their quota for it. Edsels regularly went off the line with parts shoved into the trunk to be attached at the dealership or just missing entirely.
HandoB4Javert
guydudemanfellow
nothing wrong with this at all
bamcobra
I think the saying “Mercury sucking a lemon” didn’t help at all.
LtRooney
There was the famous issue with some Edsel taillights, if you're turning left, the taillight looks like an arrow pointing right and vice-versa.
Sebastopol140
Yes. And it's not ugly at all.
IlluminaBlade
There seem to be sillier looking versions of it.
bippityboppitybuttsex
The Edsel was a fiasco and the fact that it was ugly was the least of its problems.
https://theaugustapress.com/motorheadline-was-the-edsel-really-that-bad/
ExTechOp
403 Forbidden, when trying to view from Finland, Europe.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Vpn that shit
ButtscratchMcPherson
By today's standards it doesn't look that bad. :0
SaturnineCult
I know nothing else about that car, but it was in '87 first Maniac Mansion game, and it had rocket engines.
dontrike
Gotta put the meteor in it and blow it up, after all.
SaturnineCult
You could also call the meteor police!
dunkum09
Billy Joel is going to have to update the lyrics to "We didn't start the fire" now
F1yingFox
It's a few years old now, but Fall Out Boy released a cover back in 2023 https://youtu.be/2LkVKCWL0U4?is=QE3mQJ9usYH2_Vj4
PostHartmann
A few years old. I just heard it a couple of months ago at the hospital. I was listening and thinking "this doesn't sound right". Good song though.