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However, whether Musk is another Preston Tucker or the next Henry Ford, he’s achieved something remarkable. It’s not that he’s created an auto company from scratch. It’s that he’s captured the lightning in a bottle for which automotive marketers around the world would sell their souls. He’s made tech-savvy 21st-century consumers fall in love with the idea of owning an invention that defined the 20th century. A car.

How it doesn't: The Mustang made Ford a profit, and will be around for many years to come.

Tesla will be gone in a decade, unless freakishly large advancements are made in battery and alternative energy power grid technologies.

Musk has convinced the world he's fixed the energy crisis, when most of the world still runs their power grid on fossil fuel. This is a band aid pronounced as a cure-all. The sickening thing is this man talks down on truly revolutionary SOLUTIONS to the energy crisis, such as fuel cells and alcohol fuels.

I realize this is not popular opinion, so let the flaming fanboyism begin. Tesla people are nearly as bad as Apple people.

The Mustang was affordable to the baby boomers and racked up 686,000 sales in the first year (combined 64.5 and 65). This car is not affordable to millennials. I would wager that very few of those 400,000 pre-orders follow through with the sale when they decided the range isn't enough, the quality is not what they expect or just realize they have no stomach for the payment on a car that will be $40k when optioned. The fact that the original Mustang was not a special car (hello Falcon parts bin, what are you doing Friday night?) and the Model 3 is, but still became one of, if not the American automobile speaks volumes about what Ford accomplished with it. In that regard the Tesla pales in comparison. Who sustains sales after the early adopters?

Silly article. What's the point of comparing the level of pre-orders on the Tesla to the demand for the Mustang at it's introduction? IT WAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLD THEN. No Internet. No online ordering. No social media to fan all of the excitement and enthusiasm. No way to find out specific information about the new car. No endless interviews and industry coverage ... (You get my point).

Saying the introduction of the Tesla "blows away the Mustang" is crazy. Different time, different context, different world.