On: Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack

[beenBoutIT]

Tesla has maybe sold 200,000 cars world-wide over the course of 15 years, by its own estimate. GM sold close to 4 times that many vehicles in the US alone in Q2 of 2018. Teslas are rare.

https://www.gm.com/investors/sales/us-sales-production.html

[beat → beenBoutIT]

Tesla Model S outsells the BMWs, Mercedes, and Audis in its class. Those aren't considered rare and exotic.

[Diederich → beenBoutIT]

300,000 as of February: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.

Current production rate is 107,000/year, more than 1% of GMs 10million/year.

However, your point stands: Teslas are, at this point, relatively rare.