$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now

Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by natch on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:32PM (#19276888)

You have a valid point about inexperienced owners but the car (more premium Model 3s) has been favorably compared with a BMW M3 in a similar price range, by people who know premium cars well, and they have called it a toss-up just on driving feel alone. Which has a totally different character in the two cars but both fantastic. That’s without even taking into account cost of ownership, auto pilot features, safety, beast mode AWD, or energy sustainability.

If you do take even some of those factors into account, it’s a no brainer.

For wind noise it’s not the best, but in many other aspects it’s far ahead.

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Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by saberience on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:02PM (#19277607)

More favorably compared by who? I’ve sat in model 3,s, and x, and when compared with similar priced BMW or Mercs, there is a massive difference in interior luxury and comfort. Seriously, go and experience being inside a 100k 7 series bmw to a 100k model s. It’s like night and day in comparison. The Tesla’s always feel cheap in comparison. The handling, road noise, luxury features, seat comfort, etc are all inferior in Tesla cars.

Also, Tesla know this themselves! Elon admits that Teslas are overpriced and that current buyers are subsidizing future buyers as they scale up. Also, a friend of mine used to be the manager of a major Tesla delivery center. He said the quality control was terrible and they had tons of cars with paint and panel issues. In fact he said bad paint jobs was one of their biggest source of problems.

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Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by tibbon on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:18PM (#19277895)

I’ve had the opposite experience.

A friend took me for a drive in their model 3 recently. At one point we hit around 130mph, and it was the smoothest and quietest ride I’ve ever had at the speed.

That being said the BMW 7s I’ve been in were all from the early 2000s, but I never found any other car to be as quiet as a Tesla.

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Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by regularfry on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:59AM (#19278694)

That was a rough time to be in a 7 series. Bunch of new tech with horrible teething trouble.

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Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by tibbon on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:12PM (#19285292)

Yea, that's a good point. It was... well, had a lot of features. Some of them worked. Some of the time. And plenty of sensors to let you know when they weren't. Except when the sensors were the thing that was bad.

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Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by short_sells_poo on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:09AM (#19281274)

You are comparing cars 15(!) years apart. I'm sure that pretty much every car today is a considerably nicer experience than a model T ford, but that's hardly a fair comparison :D

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