Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds

Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by stcredzero on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:12PM (#17231888)

No. The Aztek is hideously ugly. The Bolt is nowhere near that ugly. Also, plenty of people don't care if something is ugly, if it's utilitarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AP0JnXSOA

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by paganel on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:01PM (#17232416)

A link to a Doug DeMuro video on HN, that's nice! Back on topic, I think the Bolt looks cool, I think it has an utilitarian and slightly ahead-of-its-time feeling about it which is just cool (the same as Renault Espace and especially Renault Avantime had back in the late '80s - the '90s, when everyone was hating on them, but now they're cool).

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by stcredzero on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:16PM (#17232545)

What's wrong with a link to a Doug DeMuro video on HN?

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by paganel on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:19PM (#17233153)

Nothing wrong with it, I was not trying to be condescending or anything, quite the contrary, it's just that English is not my primary language so maybe my comment got read the "wrong way", so to speak.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by tempestn on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:35PM (#17233639)

I just did some googling to remind myself how ugly the Aztek is and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4llaTn-hk

Video of a guy transforming an Aztek into a reasonably attractive sports car. Pretty impressive!

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by mcguire on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:47PM (#17234331)

I don't get the "Aztek is ugly" thing. The front end is a little odd, but the back is Prius-ish and it is overall a generic small SUV crossover.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by dabockster on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:05PM (#17232449)

> plenty of people don't care if something is ugly, if it's utilitarian

I am one of these people. I live in the Pacific Northwest, where it rains 7-8 months out of the year. A nice car will be totally ruined in a few weeks of rain around here. So everyone just drives ugly Honda Accords and AWD Subarus.

Related side note, a teacher back when I was in HS about 10 years ago told a story about how she saw Bill Gates driving a beat up mid 1990s Accura around Seattle after he was crowned the world's wealthiest individual.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by dpark on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:55PM (#17233760)

> A nice car will be totally ruined in a few weeks of rain around here.

What are you talking about? PNW rain isn’t going to hurt your car unless you leave the sunroof open.

Tons of people in Seattle drive late model luxury cars.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by brett40324 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:06AM (#17234913)

Whether this is true, rumor, or else: this. You could buy 20 cars like this for under the price of a model 3. Really, at the end of the day, everything is about just getting from point A to B!

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by aidenn0 on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:33PM (#17232750)

I actually saw an Aztek in person for the first time in a while recently. One thing I noticed is that it looks less weird compared to when it first came out (a lot of cars share a vaguely similar shape to it now), but no less ugly. Apparently the desgin was both ahead of its time, and bad.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by stretchwithme on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:59PM (#17232995)

Maybe people got used to seeing it on Breaking Bad.

It's still badly broken in the looks department if you ask me.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by mikestew on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:08PM (#17232471)

We own an original Scion xB (lunchbox on wheels), a Nissan Leaf, and a VW Vanagon (which arguably could be a matter of taste). Utility uber alles at our house. And even we make fun of the Aztek, given that it lacks the utility to offset the hideous asthetics.

But I don't think I'd have to try really hard to convince the wife to get a Bolt. It sure as hell is better looking than anything else we own. And despite owning way more TSLA than is healthy for our portfolio, I'm not terribly impressed by the looks of the 3. It's not ugly, but it doesn't stand out, either.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by stcredzero on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:58PM (#17233791)

I'm not terribly impressed by the looks of the 3.

The front of the Tesla 3 keeps reminding me of this guy. (You see, when I look at the front of a car, there's supposed to be something there, but there's something less than what I expected.)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Hannibal_Lect...

Someone should make a luggage rack for the Scion xB that looks like a handle from one of those old-school lunchboxes.

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