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I studied #German for 4 years in high school, but eventually gave it up because I didn't find it useful. All the Germans I met at university and conferences spoke English.

This is certainly not the case for people in the #car sales industry. When I bought a BMW in #Germany 10 years ago, it was a big official dealer and there was only one person who could speak English with me. Now I'm buying an Audi, it's again a big official dealer and there's no one who speaks English. We're negotiating a €25k deal with the help of translators. 🙂

#german #Germany #car
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Adam Štrauch

One of the things Tesla does great. You can go to any of their "stores" in the whole world and they will speak English.

It rips my heart out of my chest seeing what's happening to them. That car is well made, spare parts are cheap and available online including service manuals, no expensive diagnostic tools needed to see what the car thinks it's wrong, huge world wide community.

I hope they will disconnect him from the company eventually.

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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx The disconnection from Musk would only be the first step to restore my trust in the company. I think his culture is very much integrated into the company. Great engineering on one side and fairly bad privacy policies and principals, false marketing, dubious transport security approaches and terrible treating of employees on the other side.
In the last years, great engineers have been leaving and Musk's loyalists staying, it will be a long-term fixing.
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