For all the pins you've stuck into your Musk voodoo doll …
See, even though I sometimes disagree with you, it's comments like this that make me have no choice but to like you.
For the record, I don't want Tesla to fail, nor do I think it will. I happen to think Elon is kind of a d!ck and is probably not the right person to be helming Tesla at the moment. He makes his life more difficult than he needs to, so he sure doesn't need my help.
With the rate of Model 3s in the wild now, I imagine rates on Turo are dropping and that circle of Tesla acquaintances will grow.
Heck, get a PERFORMANCE and have some fun. Drive it down to 40miles and then supercharge it and see how fast that thing goes from empty to 70%.
I would actually welcome that, because as I've said before I always welcome a new driving experience. It's probably an eventuality.
No one NEEDS an EV unless they are
@mattjs33 apparently.
Almost none of us are set up the way you are.
Ha, I suppose not. But we'll get back to that.
A guy who runs an auto parts store but is afraid of used cars is a fish scared of water - you can't use your own unique circumstances to say a 100,000 mile battery warranties wouldn't help someone else.
True, yes, but the point I'm making is that a used car shouldn't scare anyone else off either. Cars are made so well now that 100,000 miles is really nothing anymore. You can argue that anything out of warranty poses a repair cost risk, that includes a Tesla, but there's a reason the average age of a car on the road is now brushing up against 12 years.
Recognize that a $35K (or $38K for that matter) price point includes a lot of very compelling product, and in the real world new cars of all brands including Tesla have to compete with that.
Subjectively, objectively - you can see Tesla all over the road. You have spoken, I have spoken but look at what everyone but US is speaking. They are getting Model 3s in massive numbers.
People have their tastes.. that I get. Mine happens to be Tesla. With the 2nd Model 3, no more ICE or nothing else besides Tesla now.
The Model 3 is selling very well, but "massive numbers" requires a bit of perspective. If you live in California, I'm sure it must seem as if they are everywhere. But despite all of Tesla's growth and sales success thus far in 2019 (which is palpable), they still have a smaller share of the US market than Jaguar/Land Rover. Ford and General Motors are over 20 times their size each, with Toyota and FCA coming in at 19 and 18 times larger respectively.
Over 17 million people who bought a new car in the US last year, DIDN'T buy a Tesla. Why not? I point this out because while pretty much everyone here thinks that Tesla is the Best Car in the World, there's a whole LOT of inferior cars being sold every day. Why would someone buy an inferior car?
A car purchase decision has a LOT of factors, and there are as many reasons to buy a particular car as there are people. Take my case above; you can laugh at it since who else would have the same scenario, but I'm sure there's others even more wacky, and others that make a lot of sense.
I've been here nine years and seen people say dumb things like Tesla will run the Detroit 3 out of business, or someday all cars on the road will be Teslas, and I'm telling you it's never gonna happen. Tesla is sure to grow as long as they don't do anything stupid, but if Mitsubishi is somehow still out there successfully selling cars, I think the Big Guys are going to be okay.
Building the Best Car in the World doesn't matter as much in the marketplace as you think it does.
A under 70K car now that makes a Maserati cower - I find that extremely interesting.
Funny story, but again let's not forget that a large part of the market doesn't care about that. Only one car is the fastest in the world, and yet
all the slower ones still sell. Tesla fans get REAL proud of 0-60 numbers, but I'll maintain that anything under about 4.5 all gets lumped into "pretty damn fast". It's mostly a d!ck waving contest after that.
My track car gives up a lot these days to the Corvettes, but I'm not sure there's anyone out there having any more fun than I am. Being fastest isn't always what it's all about, and anyway someone faster always comes along. Having said that, I'm sure the Model 3 speed is addictive and I'd like to experience it myself.
Maserati's are poseur cars - all noise and no go. Style maybe. I looked at them briefly on my last purchase. Among similar ICE, they just aren't in the same league as a Panamera, S7, M5.
Unique sure, but only because they can't sell them.
Even if Candice Swanepoel was a terrible dancer, I think I'd still be okay with her on my arm.
I was just using Maserati as an example that I've happened to look into previously. In any case, don't discount the appeal of uniqueness. It's the whole reason Morgan still exists.