mercedes, porsche, and volkswagen having to fight for the silver medal of "most socially fraught cars to own re: perceptions of nazi ties" is the greatest upset in business history - ThreadSky

alexkirshner.com • 2 days ago

mercedes, porsche, and volkswagen having to fight for the silver medal of "most socially fraught cars to own re: perceptions of nazi ties" is the greatest upset in business history

Reposted from Brian Floyd

“so i bought a mercedes,” this country is amazing

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hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social•2 days ago

tbh I feel like the one called "volk car" probably takes the cake of the 3 mentioned

rowyourbot.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, right I forgot Porsche!

harveygolden.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://youtu.be/jUuzecAM6n0?si=r1nyvPYcESMmJTYP

shampoochan13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Almost like saying buy a Volkswagen instead of a tesla.

statsboyandi.bsky.social•1 day ago

You forgot BMW!

dctrojan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Audi’s about to reintroduce the Horch brand with this kind of air cover

midnightdorifto.bsky.social•2 days ago

very much regret to inform you

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/2022-audi-a8-facelift-to-resurrect-horch-brand-for-ultra-luxury-version-153935.html

dctrojan.bsky.social•2 days ago

LOLOLOLOL that’s what I get for making a casual WW2 joke without checking first

lfillingham.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mercedes, Hitler's personal car, VW, started by a worker' branch of the Nazi party, initially designed the VW Beetle, during the war it kept designing tanks that did not win government contracts until the end, only produced cars after the war.

baphometta.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mitsubishi would probably rather most people forget Pearl Harbor, or at least who built the bombers

dhpljm266.bsky.social•2 days ago

*adjusts glasses* well, ackshully, Mitsubishi only built the A6M *fighter* but the Pearl Harbor *bombers* were the Aichi D3A “Val” dive bomber and Nakajima B5N “Kate” torpedo bomber.

The corporate successor to Aichi is Nissan. The corporate successor to Nakajima is Subaru.

texaskrusty.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Ford is thrilled to be down accepting the bronze!

leendawoman.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bought a hybrid Porsche in 2021. I knew. I wouldn’t touch anything musk with a 10ft pole.

anbayanyay.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don't forget Henry Ford. Dude paid to get Father Coughlan screeds published and threw in a few Protocols quotes while he was at it. Quite the Nazi fan he was.

freedompimp2012.bsky.social•2 days ago

as we all know from Finding Forester the BMW logo is propellers. Left unsaid is who those propellers were built for

shuadc.bsky.social•2 days ago

BMW built plenty of stuff for the Nazis but the propller thing is a myth, at least according to BMW https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/bmw-logo-meaning-history1.html

freedompimp2012.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gus Van Sant would never lie to me

britpoptarts.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ford, too

geisty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fair credit to the postwar German government for a major good-faith effort to at least try to atone for those crimes. You can’t wash off history but you can move on from it.

alexkirshner.com•2 days ago

and i think that's been recognized. i know a rabbi who rolls around in a benz

hammbear2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

geisty.bsky.social•2 days ago

I will never question or dispute this sort of personal judgment. (Ask https://bluebookvalue.bsky.social about that Pebble Beach Mercedes from a couple years ago.)

I understand that this tendency is more common among Jews in London somehow.

themjl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ford, too, kinda...

alexkirshner.com•1 day ago

don't be charlie brown with the football. job's not finished. tesla stock has 📉 in similar circumstances before and then 📈. and boycotts can't be the only reason it's dropping now.

however: elon might have played himself on this one. this time could be different https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/elon-musk-tesla-boycott-stocks-falling-explained.html

darinchristensen.bsky.social•1 day ago

So to add some context to how the non online person knows how much is going on my mother who votes in every election here in Canada has never heard of musk until this week believed that he was Jeffery Epstein

alexkirshner.com•1 day ago

i believe it!

dianabhenriques.bsky.social•2 days ago

And when America repudiates Musk as emphatically as Germany repudiated the murderous regime that tainted Mercedes, Porsche and VWs, we can buy Teslas again....

petegain.es•2 days ago

but why would you want to, they're pieces of shit

dianabhenriques.bsky.social•2 days ago

True, but at least they would be pieces of shit that were no longer putting money in the pocket of a reprehensible person...

ghostwarrior.bsky.social•2 days ago

kmschubring.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bought a Cadillac Lyriq. Love it!!

proptermalone.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ford didn’t even sniff the podium!

phrozen.com•2 days ago

Henry Ford was a… character, but Ford Motor I think deserves a better rep than they have in that department, on account of building something like 10,000 bombers and innumerable trucks and jeeps and so on for the European theatre.

phrozen.com•2 days ago

Compared to Porsche/WV/BMV/etc who built stuff for ze germans, or tesla, who would love to have built stuff for ze germans

lastgamerontheleft.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ooooh I hate to break this to you but almost 1/3 of the trucks that the nazis had in operation in 1942 were produced by Ford Germany.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ford-and-fuhrer/

phrozen.com•2 days ago

That is, uh, a *lot* more than I would have guessed. Like I said, Henry Ford was a certain type of dude.

Still, counterpoint, how many tanks did Porsche make for the Allies?

lastgamerontheleft.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh for sure. They more than made up for it. My grandfather built b-24s in San Diego after they moved Catalina production to New Orleans.

hammbear2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

They did build war fighting equipment against Nazis.

4legsrgood.bsky.social•2 days ago

You know what, just be glad she got rid of her Tesla. She took a bath on it.

onmylevels.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ask any Jewish grandmother and the real silver medalist is Ford

alexkirshner.com•2 days ago

very true

jverheul.bsky.social•2 days ago

Came here to say this.

slownova.bsky.social•2 days ago

It has always struck me as incredibly odd that the hippy movement in the USA glommed onto Volkswagen (and the Beetle in particular) so hard given it's origins and the people involved.

othiym23.bsky.social•2 days ago

they were extremely cheap, air-cooled (so uncomplicated to maintain), and simple to fix with hand tools, and most hippies were broke and not particularly historically aware

slownova.bsky.social•2 days ago

True, true. Also great gas mileage and cute as all hell.

stevezorowitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/stevezorowitz.bsky.social/post/3k6m6t7f5s42v

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