<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>The money quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I wish we had put that car on the road and not Tesla,&amp;quot; confided a senior engineer at Porsche. &amp;quot;We have to earn money at the end of the day though.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The article also talks about &amp;quot;how will the German brands win back customers from Tesla?&amp;quot;, but really, if you look at cars like the Mercedes S-class, BMW 7 series or the Audi A8, their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched. Audi has been setting record sales numbers in the US, which is Tesla&amp;#x27;s biggest market, for five years straight. So it&amp;#x27;s a bit hard to argue Tesla has taken many of their customers.&lt;p&gt;Maybe most Tesla drivers were never petrolheads in the first place, and drove a boring station wagon before the Model S came along?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants</title><url>http://www.autonews.com/article/20160905/OEM05/309059949/tesla-envy-grips-germanys-giants</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>urlwolf</author><text>Bosch, a German company that serves the auto manufacturers, seems to have bought patents on a battery technology that could be a breakthrough. Remember that &amp;#x27;the German way&amp;#x27; of doing business is not to make noise at all. There have been entire German companies operating without marketing and sales departments, and there still are.&lt;p&gt;I live in Germany.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants</title><url>http://www.autonews.com/article/20160905/OEM05/309059949/tesla-envy-grips-germanys-giants</url></story>