Jay Leno: Elon Musk is the reason Tesla is the most valuable car company in the world:
Tesla’s market cap hit $1 trillion earlier this week, sending Musk’s net worth skyrocketing near $300 billion after Hertz announced it will be ordering 100,000 vehicles to build out its electric vehicle rental fleet.
“Can you imagine any of the major automobile manufacturers saying ‘Let’s call this high performance feature ‘Plaid’ like they did in ‘Spaceballs’ as a joke?‘” Leno says, referring to Tesla’s most high-powered vehicle. “You’d be fired or thrown out of the office. But when you own the company? Well, my car says ‘Plaid’ on the back of it.” (In the 1987 movie “Spaceballs,” spacecraft accelerate from light- to ridiculous- then ludicrous-speed and finally into “plaid.”)Musk’s ability to influence design choices, such as the new steering wheel shape on its Model S cars, allow Tesla to stand out from the competition “because it’s one person’s idea of what it should be.”
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Musk’s ability to influence design choices, such as the new steering wheel shape on its Model S cars, allow Tesla to stand out from the competition “because it’s one person’s idea of what it should be.”
100% agree with Leno.