Brands like Renault, Peugeot, & Seat have been sold in Mexico without ever touching the US market. This isn’t exactly groundbreaking.

No one in this thread is saying it’s bad for Tesla to do it. They’re just making fun of this thing being extremely ugly. You’re pre-offended for something that isn’t happening.

Mass production is still a huge hurdle for startups and a reason legacy automakers won’t be going away anytime soon. You can get some engineers and fabricators together to develop a new EV, but they’re going to need massive investments that can withstand several years of losing money to get it off the ground and produce any meaningful number of vehicles.