Tesla Drivers Complain They’re Being Targeted By Elon Musk Haters
Nazi salutes? Dick drawings? Tesla drivers can’t take the hate.

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As part of a growing nationwide backlash against anything and everything to do with Elon Musk, people are turning on visible symbols of his influence like the much-maligned Tesla Cybertrucks, which are being booed and defaced across the United States. According to a report from CNN, even non-Cybertruck-owning Tesla drivers feel they’re being unfairly targeted, with one Tesla owner, Steven Minnick, describing an interaction in which people in a Subaru performed a Nazi salute in his direction. In a separate incident, Minnick caught people drawing male genitalia on his car. Musk’s actions have also prompted some Tesla vehicle owners, including Jennifer Vargas, to sell their cars. Vargas told CNN that her decision to offload her ride was “entirely because of the way he was behaving in public and the extremism that he was portraying.” She added: “I love the car, I like everything about it, but it was just his name being attached to it that became the issue.”
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