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Bardlebee
Member
These are both silly reasons to "Leave It" as they say:
Touchscreen gets filthy fast
Door handles too gimmicky
contaygious
Active Member
I wish this "fact" were true and I wasn't paying over 100k
"Pricing starts at $49,900 and tops out at $84,900 after a $7,500 tax rebate"
"Pricing starts at $49,900 and tops out at $84,900 after a $7,500 tax rebate"
yep
that would be nice
not the 25K extra to make it 'mine'
and fully 'amped'
what did they put in the wheatgrass shot that I was fed at the test drive?
I think I ordered the Exact car I test drove
damn you money! Go away please:wink:
Not tea bags. But lists Sig standard features as options.
Also, "tightly proscribed course" sounds like forbidden territory! :scared: :biggrin:
Norbert
TSLA will win
True... but if that's their format they've got to find something so put down and if those are the two worst things about the vehicle...
These were in boxes at the bottom of the article, one labeled "Take It" and the other "Leave It". The writer really had to stretch to find three "Leave It" items.
Interesting to note that the writer adored the clean interior.
contaygious
Active Member
No backseat for kids. No fancy dual charging. Everything else is mine!
Yeah, that writer liked the clean interior and I do too. It's actually refreshing to me to see vs. the Panamera which also gets high marks for interior but to me looks like a mess of buttons everywhere.
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Heh. Now I see it! I guess my internal "superfluous graphics" filter just tuned the pretty colors out as advert inserts or SLT.
Ya, he really had to reach. As far as the range comment goes, one TM exec once commented that it takes about 6 months for new owners to stop playing every time they sit in the car, and settle down to "normal" driving, at which point the range takes a jump! There's also going to be a certain portion of the pool who are compulsive quasi-'hypermilers', and will start giving us some feedback of what the actual upper range limits are in reasonably normal usage.
CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
Wow. Really an excellent review until they started to pretend they were business analysts.
CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
Extended quote that they ended the review with -
"Though it may seem expensive, the more-made-in-America-than-most-“American”-cars Model S can’t possibly turn a profit at its price, given all that is clean-sheet new and novel about it—at least, not until Tesla has closed out a few Decembers at or near its 20,000-per-year sales goal, which, given the cruel history of the auto industry, may be never.
Various investors, from Toyota to *Daimler (which supplies a Benz steering *column to the Model S) to Uncle Sam—with its $465 million in loans—to Tesla’s shareholders on Wall Street, have all bet money and material that Tesla won’t flame out like Solyndra. Without them, there would be no Model S. And unless the car succeeds, there may be no more investors."
At least they got the product right.
CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
Oh well, I think they're wrong about the business case but until Tesla puts up a profitable quarter (or year) it's not insane to have concerns. And they did get the review of the car correct, which is a good thing with their status in the industry.
