Mostly for my own curiosity, I looked at total domestic auto sales when Tucker was producing as compared to today to get a proportion of sales for each company.

Tucker closed in 1949, when about 7mm cars were sold in the US annually. [1] So Tucker's 51 cars produced, out of 7mm total leaves them with a .0007% market share.

Tesla sold 2,650 cars in the US in 2012 [2], while there were 14.5mm total sold [3]. Tesla therefore had a .018% market share.

Tesla is at least 25x the company Tucker was!

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_automobile_industry_in...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Sales_and_markets

[3] - http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2013/01/10/u-s-auto-sales-hit-...