Tesla

Similar to Apple’s strategy of offering a beautiful tech platform to a small user base that identifies as being “different,” Tesla offers drivers a premium badge of honor that showcases the value they place on technology, performance and design.

Tesla owners rally around their shared love. There are more than 60 Tesla clubs in the U.S., a Reddit community with 788,000 subscribers, and even a Tesla owner dating app (ok, it's a joke, but very few brands inspire that level of devotion). Customers also experience a personal and empowered relationship with the face of the brand, Elon Musk, such as when two customers submitted an open letter via a full-page ad in the Palo Alto Daily News. They received a personal response on Twitter and a promise from the iconic leader to implement some of their suggested changes.

The average Tesla buyer represents a small, narrow demographic of rich, young males working in tech-related industries. They also share the values that Tesla embodies: future-focused and emissions-free, with the leading technology in the electric-vehicle market for the price.