I’m not quite sure whether to be angry or bemused by your assertion that just because I bought a Tesla I am a fanboi nutter.
You’re falling into the trap of assuming that just because you’re obviously quite intelligent, you assume everyone else is stupid.
Give the “fanbois” some credit. It may well be simply that they value different things to you.
DOI: I have a Tesla and a ****ton of apple products. And I’m glad I do, they serve my purposes well and both companies have values I identify with.
That's not what I wrote, or intended to imply. Thankfully, the UK and Ireland section of this forum seems relatively free from those who believe that Elon Musk is the next Messiah, and that Tesla can do no wrong.
The same is definitely not true of some other Tesla forums, particularly the Tesla sub-Reddits. Like many, I suspect, I read a lot about Tesla, by way of research. I knew the Model 3 fitted my requirements, but equally, so did the VW ID.3. I placed a deposit for an ID.3 early in 2019, and was fairly committed to buying one, until the reveal at Frankfurt. It was my disappointment with the interior of the ID.3, together with rumours that delivery was going to be later than predicted, that made me switch to buying a Model 3.
Clearly not every Tesla owner, most probably not even a significant proportion of Tesla owners, is one of the hard-line Tesla fanatics. That's no different to Apple fans, the most vocal are just a small minority. It is a fact, though, that the most vocal fans of both Tesla and Apple products are extremely active in many areas of the internet, so their extreme views tend to dominate some discussion groups, and that does shape the way both brands are viewed, as far as new customers are concerned.
The Tesla Model 3 is no different to many other cars, in that it has some poor features, some good features, some outstandingly good features, but also has some clear build quality and initial customer service issues.
As for the remarks about intelligence and stupidity, I'm afraid I just don't see the relevance. Anyone that buys a Tesla has to have done well enough in life to be able to afford a car that's significantly more expensive than most (a base Model 3 is more than double the price of the average new car in the UK). Clearly, few, if any, Tesla owners are likely to be stupid. The same logic applies to fans of Apple products. They are also priced above their competitors, by around the same amount. You can buy a Windows laptop with the same sort of performance and dimensions as a Macbook for less than half the price.
As an example of the irrational way some refuse to allow fair criticism of Tesla, look at the downvotes those images of the Model Y with the missing roof got. Clearly some in that Tesla community wanted to suppress what looks to be evidence of a significant quality failing. No matter how big a supporter of a company anyone may be, refusing to accept there can be problems, and trying to dissuade someone from going public about those problems, is not in anyone's best interest, including Tesla's.
