In a crazy incident, a Tesla owner was fined with a parking ticket at a GM plant in Wentzville in the US. Apparently, the parking ticket was issued as the attendant thought the vehicle was not an American car. In many American factories, they have dedicated parking lots for brand-owned vehicles, foreign vehicles and made-in-America vehicles. In the case of this parking lot, it was just meant for American vehicles but the attendant didn’t realise the Model 3 in question was as American as a car gets.
The car was parked in the lot which was meant for non-GM vehicles, so the mistake was quite clear, but regardless the news of this ticket was quite surprising. GM even bothered to comment on the situation.
“Wentzville, like many of our manufacturing sites, has a parking policy and designated parking locations for GM vehicles, non-GM domestic vehicles and foreign nameplates. Plant security inadvertently thought the Tesla was a foreign car and wrote a ticket accordingly,” the Detroit based automaker revealed.
The Model 3 is the best-selling electric car in the world. It is also the best-selling executive sedan in the world. It was also voted most American-made vehicle by cars.com’s American-made index just last week.
In fact, the Model 3 has more American DNA than even GM’s vehicles including the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon which are manufactured at the Wentzville assembly plat. This ticket was revealed on a Facebook group called Useless, Unsuccessful and/or unpopular signage and has gone viral since.