redsturgeon wrote:Here is a nice objective review of a year's ownership of a Tesla 3 from an ex BMW M3 owner. He likes the car and would buy another but he is not impressed with the service from Tesla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMtl2JgxIo
His is a performance version which was $69k but he did receive $17k of rebates on that price, making it quite reasonable.
Very interesting to see some of the close up shots where you can see the paintwork...the orange peel looks awful and I doubt whether most decent car makers would put up with such a bad paint job.
John
Judging from the sentiments of this guy & many others it seems to me that Tesla have made a drivers car that is so attractive that they will over look issues because they love how the car makes them feel. This is an extraordinary achievement for such a young company operating in a world of established giants, showing not only how good Tesla have had to be to do this, but also the lameness of the competition & the complacency that has come from being paid for making stuff far inferior to what can be done.
If I had a choice between exciting but not yet fully smoothed & polished and a reverse situation of boring yet smooth & polished I would choose the former although many want the latter. If it comes to a stage where Tesla offer smooth polished & sexy it would be a no brainier Apple like situation for a good proportion of the affluent folk who need a car.
It will be interesting to see if the posters here who want perfection in all aspects of their purchases will be swayed to Tesla as the business develops or if some other manufacturer will capture their emotion & love for perfection.
Imho it is this battle between emotion & prudence that will ultimately determine how big Tesla becomes. So far I remain firmly in the camp that Tesla will become a real big business.
Regards,