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Is this a joke? I went to the link. Are you really observing a ship or kidding?
Why should it be a joke?
Someone further up posted a link to a twitter feed that showed those hundreds (thousands?) of Model 3s destined for Europe next to the car carrier "Glovis Captain", which is supposed to be the ship that they sail on.
And yes, the link I posted shows the current position of said ship. Not that I constantly monitor its every move, but once a week or so is quite interesting imho, to see the progress on its way.
I find it fascinating anyway what we can do nowadays. When I was young we couldn't even dream of such possibilities. Global (often even real-time) tracking of ships, airplanes, even parcel delivery vans. Google/Bing maps, Google Earth, Streetview, you name it.
I remember the time when it was considered revolutionary that you could buy a CD containing the whole German phone directory, including rudimentary geo-coding, back in the early Nineties
Congrats @ gonature and valentine, I'm curious, did you order the Performance ?
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I'm super interested in how this will go down in Europe, especially in Germany.
I don't think many Europeans are used to and are particularly tolerant of Tesla's level of quality but, on the other hand, they're used to paying exorbitant prices for meager performance and crappy in-car tech.
What's a Model 3 cost in Germany vs say a mid-level A4?
My Model 3 configuration costs just shy of 66K Euro.
For the same amount I could get a well equipped A5 Sportback Quattro gas car. I just did a test-config, trying to get it as close to the Model 3 specs as possible. Interestingly enough it cost about the same as the Model 3, while being superior on some tech and amenities and inferior on some others. On the whole I think they would be comparable if not for two main differences:
- the Audi has better build quality (though I must say the US spec Model 3 they had on display in the Frankfurt store recently seemed quite satisfactory in terms of build quality. Not perfect, but far from bad - and far better than both Model S's I had test driven over the years).
- the performance of the Model 3 is far superior to the A5 Sportback Quattro. To get to the same (or at least very similar) level of performance I would have needed to choose the S5 as a basis, bringing the price up to above Model 3 levels.
Summing up, I think the Model 3 has the potential to be a winner, even over here. The main problem is that most Germans still seem to be very sceptical about BEVs in general. Us early adopters will have a lot of "convincing by experiencing" ahead of us.