Several pages ago, some members were posting photos of their past high-end cars. Though I've had my share of German-made vehicles, those posts made me feel as though I'm the poor kid on the block since I don't have the luxury of buying another vehicle to tide me over until the Unicorn MS arrives. I agree with you @artsci - some of us are able to afford the vehicle we like despite not being independently wealthy. In my case, I'm writing a big fat check for my Unicorn.
I saw this somewhere as well, and it makes sense. If they are trying to target the average citizen, the cap should be placed on the vehicle price, not the income.
Yeah, although I appreciate different driving modes, I tend to just put it into highest "performance mode" and leave it there for whenever I want to do some spirited driving on the fly. But yeah, 250 mi. max battery doesn't cut it anymore (not for me anyway). Had that with my 2019 Jaguar I-Pace HSE EV but had range anxiety a little when I had to drive 75+ miles each way to Miami for say 2 customer appts but realized if I wanted/needed to stop by a 3rd customer's house, I would be pushing the max battery range and really didn't have time to stop to charge. So, I always limited myself and my I-Pace to about 170-180 mi. max per day and came back to charge at home with 40+ miles every time. It worked but just having another 100 mi. extra for battery range will work quite nicely for me, so Tesla MS Plaid w/ approx 350 mi. max battery range (and even if it's lower around 320 mi, I'm good!). Thank you for your honest answers on this.
I'm with you on that! Between the $915 for registration and the sales tax it adds almost $10K to my cost. The only offset is the $1,500 rebate, but the registration cost is annual. Far cheaper to pay registration on my wife's Escalade ESV than the Tesla. Something is wrong there.
Yea I agree. I always have people assume that im financially irresponsible just because the things I say im going to get or things I have without hearing what im putting away to how im going to go upon doing so. I might be doing better than some but im definitely not rich but I can for sure manage my money very well.
mine has been switching back and forth between name and no name since January
Yes, old news at this point. Since Tesla has no PR/Media Relations Dept, apparently it's all up to E Musk's tweets (geez...I don't even do Twitter, lol). And yes, they're doing a "special" Refresh MS Release Event on 6/3/21, supposedly explaining some new features and providing some more details (finally!!!) on the vehicle and announcing first deliveries for June (likely for VIPS and possible pre-refresh announcement reservations).
That's actually pretty funny, I've been doing that a lot lately and smacking my self every time I realize I've been holding on to the top of the wheel...
Mine does that on a regular basis. Currently it's kicking back an internal server error. Yes, I am voluntarily choosing to buy a car from this company.
For 3 months now. Actually doesn’t take too much to get use to. We will soon fly with the eagles
Yea last part I agree with that makes no sense I see it as well.Well really my main point was that Biden is hurting ev growth for the sake of politics and optics, not what would actually push EVs moving into the market faster.
The whole $250k household number is his arbitrary line of "rich" and was just giving those a heads up in this thread that we are unlikely to benefit, so no need to push off delivery.
Outside of that, yeah, my other thoughts still stand but whatever people want to do with their money is their own problem.
I will say, after living in California for a year or so, it was pretty hilarious watching people driving around $100k cars sitting in traffic on the way to their 9-5 and then coming home to an apartment, likely around the 800 sq ft mark. Always made me giggle. I digress.
same.
