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Bob Lutz, car-guy-to-the-max, former VP of GM and Chrysler, with time at BMW before that, wrote this recent article --
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26859/bob-lutz-tesla/
The opening paragraph is gloomy:
Tesla's showing all the signs of a company in trouble: bleeding cash, securitized assets, and mounting inventory. It's the trifecta of doom for any automaker, and anyone paying attention probably saw this coming a mile away. Like most big puzzles, the company's woes don't have just one source.
and the prognosis goes downhill from there mentioning competition from Audi, the lack of enough dealers to attract more buyers and other problems.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2015, @06:38PM
Lutz was a product and marketing guy, made it to the top by supporting styling/design and engineering departments -- a very rare career path in the US auto industry (in recent history). At both Chrysler and GM he was not part of creating their big business problems, see a short bio,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lutz_%28businessman%29 [wikipedia.org]
At Chrysler, he backed the Viper and made it happen (overruling the bean counters). I met him once at an event in Western NY State -- he had driven 6 hours in his Viper for lunch with writer/racer Brock Yates...and then turned around and drove it back to Detroit.
At GM he backed a whole bunch of interesting and successful cars.
He's a car guy, don't get him mixed up with the normal management found in Detroit.