No this is not a reasonable statement. It is defensive and distracting as not a single person asked him to divest the car for our own approval nor would anyone expect someone to take a loss or make a decision based on our preference. His past statements about buying into the sales hype of having the car make money or be self-driving and safe is not really much different that when our wives come home and tell us how much they saved on those new boots. It is difficult to convince someone they were played/conned and there sometimes is just no benefit from doing so. Just reply "those boots are lovely, dear."
This is a great teaching moment here. I suggest you instead respond with something like the following:
"Goddamnit Elon, now I drive two NAZI cars? (Tesla and VW)"
"I didn't know he was a Nazi when I bought it" (or the overused "I did NAZI that salute coming"
"I wonder if NOTANAZI license plate is available?"
Remember it is really all the Democratic Party’s fault to nominating Hillary Clinton. I mean, we had to vote for a conman, sex offender, felon, because reasons.
No. If this was in a vacuum I could possibly buy that, but watch the video I linked above.
He has moved into Naziism. He supports far-right violent extremists who are proud Nazi's and he supports far-right political groups who use Neo-Nazi code words and deny the holocaust, and pretend it was the US who was at fucking fault for WW2. He is a wannabe Nazi. The original Nazi's would have steralized him at best and executed him and his kids for being defective.