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Feeling pebbles doesnt speak to one's bravery. Feeling boulders and potholes does.I want to feel every pebble I run over.
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Feeling pebbles doesnt speak to one's bravery. Feeling boulders and potholes does.I want to feel every pebble I run over.
For every complaint posted, there are 100 satisfied that aren't posted. Don't jump to conclusions until you have seen the car in person. WOW!
(BTW, You You says he loves his car)
True, and hopefully seeing and test driving You You's car this week will help, but I really need my wife to be into this car. She could care less about it's EV-ness or how sporty it feels, and is cross shopping it with ICE SUVs. My hail mary combo at the dealership of "I won't drive a V6, let's see what the rumored 4-cylinder 2019 Acura RDX that will be unveiled in Jan looks like" was the only thing that kept us from canceling our 3 reservation and moving forward on a decently optioned, well-priced 2018 RDX a few weeks ago.
Whatever we buy will also be our only car and we have a toddler and another baby on the way, so a super tight suspension will be a big negative for car napping...
True, and hopefully seeing and test driving You You's car this week will help, but I really need my wife to be into this car. She could care less about it's EV-ness or how sporty it feels, and is cross shopping it with ICE SUVs. My hail mary combo at the dealership of "I won't drive a V6, let's see what the rumored 4-cylinder 2019 Acura RDX that will be unveiled in Jan looks like" was the only thing that kept us from canceling our 3 reservation and moving forward on a decently optioned, well-priced 2018 RDX a few weeks ago.
Whatever we buy will also be our only car and we have a toddler and another baby on the way, so a super tight suspension will be a big negative for car napping...
With this background, the odds are not in your favor. Considering Acura dynamic objectives, suspension travel of a taller vehicle, and likely higher profile tires, she will most likely find the Acura more comfortable.
But, she could care less or she couldn't? Maybe it's even more important to her than you think!
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It can definitely seem apples to oranges, except in our case we are a 1 car household and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. I've been pushing hard for an EV for years and the Model 3 has been the first car we've been able to see eye-to-eye on from an aesthetic standpoint. However, I wasn't aware that my other half was even considering SUVs as an option until very recently, let alone ones with as horrible of an MPG rating as the 2018 RDX (AWD).Well that's a different situation. It's certainly not an SUV. It's not a big car by any stretch of the imagination. Kind of an apples to oranges decision.
You could throw your second hail Mary pass by explaining the vast decrease in maintenance and reliability (and $$ savings) due to the far simpler drivetrain.... Of course you will have to live with the consequences if Tesla do not deliver on that *possibility*True, and hopefully seeing and test driving You You's car this week will help, but I really need my wife to be into this car. She could care less about it's EV-ness or how sporty it feels, and is cross shopping it with ICE SUVs. My hail mary combo at the dealership of "I won't drive a V6, let's see what the rumored 4-cylinder 2019 Acura RDX that will be unveiled in Jan looks like" was the only thing that kept us from canceling our 3 reservation and moving forward on a decently optioned, well-priced 2018 RDX a few weeks ago.
Whatever we buy will also be our only car and we have a toddler and another baby on the way, so a super tight suspension will be a big negative for car napping...
It's a money thing, with enough bucks spent, you can have a smooth ride on the street and also a track-capable suspension in the same car. The cheapest MSRP of a car I've owned with such a suspension was about $80k. Not exactly cheap. The cost is over $5000 just for the shock absorbers.
If you were to buy a 3 again with air suspension... you'd have something that's not in existence!If I were to buy the 3 again...I would get air suspension over EAP.
Unfortunately that probably won't apply to us as we've always driven Honda/Acura (reliability has been exceptional) and the service on our ILX has only been wiper and fancy oil changes twice a year for an annual maintenance cost of under $250-300. We only drive like 6k miles per year and still have live 50-60% left on the original tires and brakes.You could throw your second hail Mary pass by explaining the vast decrease in maintenance and reliability (and $$ savings) due to the far simpler drivetrain.... Of course you will have to live with the consequences if Tesla do not deliver on that *possibility*
But, Model 3 vs SUV is a bit of a stretch....
Unfortunately that probably won't apply to us as we've always driven Honda/Acura (reliability has been exceptional) and the service on our ILX has only been wiper and fancy oil changes twice a year for an annual maintenance cost of under $250-300. We only drive like 6k miles per year and still have live 50-60% left on the original tires and brakes.
Well, that didn't work. I was just going to comment on your "6000 miles per year". That was me, six years ago. Then we bought our first S. Somehow it's been 30,000 per year ever since.
We live in a major city and I bike to work in any condition that isn't accumulating snow, so this is why our mileage is so low. I'd certainly be into owning a car that'd actually be fun to drive instead of just being a people move, provided that car didn't actively destroy the environment. Hoping that a positive experience in You You's 3 will help me build a "everything will fit fine, it's a comfortable ride" case with my wife.Well, that didn't work. I was just going to comment on your "6000 miles per year". That was me, six years ago. Then we bought our first S. Somehow it's been 30,000 per year ever since.
And you will have two young children growing up in that polluted environment if people continue to drive ICE. Life is always about compromises and setting priorities. Good luck with your decisions.The vehicle's computer showed that it was getting 13.6 MPG (test drive route was mainly highway). I just can't comprehend owning a car that consumes so much fossil fuel.
Ah, but I’ve chosen to do road trip holidays where previously I’d have flown halfway round the worldThat is kind of amazing. Pre-Tesla, the conventional wisdom was that EVs cause "range anxiety" and you would be constrained to driving less, only for short distances. Big battery pack, big range, and supercharging network has sent you in the other direction!
Free supercharging probably helped there as well. Comfortable car helped too I bet.
I doubt Tesla wanted to encourage people to do more driving. Your total energy use for driving probably hasn't improved if you drive 5x more now than you did before...