Model 3. What's high quality about the interior?
- The hard plastics all over that rattle in the cold?
- The windows that rattle when you shut the door? (both Model 3 and Model X to my knowledge)
- The soft-touch polyurethane (presumably) that dents extremely easily?
- The "piano black" film (and yes, it's only a surface film) that scratches after looking at it?
- The seats that if you put a small dog on top off will either scratch (easily) or rip?
- The carpeting that is just standard car carpeting?
- The mats that... oh wait, these aren't even included with the car.
My 2014 Honda after 164,000 rough kilometers (I took that thing on some nasty dirt roads often) had absolutely zero rattles ever. The leather seats never showed any wear from myself nor the dog. There's soft-touch stuff everywhere that never got a single dent. And despite the fact the "wood"-look center console was easy to scratch, it turns out that's nothing compared to the Model 3's center console. In the trunk of the Honda they even had this nice durable carpeting that stuff slid on easily as well.
I say all of the above as an owner of a Tesla. I still like the car in many ways, but I'm not blind to the fact it's not even on par with a $35k Honda when it comes to interior.
While the screen in the Tesla is supremely responsive (and a large part of the reason we got it -- without the responsiveness, it would've been a hard no) and the touchscreen functions are far ahead of any other car I've been in, that's the end of my praise for the controls. Too many sacrifices for haptic/tactile controls in order to look and feel minimalist. We're still in the age of driving the cars ourselves, and they went a bit too far IMO.
If I compare to our '09 Honda Fit or a new Nissan Versa or something, of course Model 3 comes out
way ahead. As it should, because that would be embarrassing otherwise.
So yeah, I'm totally open to the fact Ford just might pull off a better interior and/or controls. And if they don't, then oh well, I suppose they'll have less buyers and we'll have to wait for another manufacturer again to come out with an EV people will buy.
Exactly. I haven't driven vehicles with better road noise myself, but apparently loads of people on this forum have.
What's strange (maybe not entirely unique to the Model 3) is that there is almost truly no difference in the interior of the cheapest off-menu Standard Range vs. the Performance model. I can't think of any other vehicle with such a price difference in options/trim, the interior is essentially the same.