Glan gluaisne
Active Member
Actually I do know when they collected their Model 3 - last Friday if you never spotted it in an earlier post of theirs. And yes, I knew this before I posted and hence why I phrased things as I did. Maybe I should have put an emoji on the end to make it clearer.
Not something I had noticed, but it does shed light on a couple of important aspects. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, even if they have never seen the car in question, let alone owned or driven it. How much weight others place on that opinion should be directly related to their experience, though, both of owning and driving that particular model of car and of owning and driving other types of car in the past.
In this case I was being told that the Model 3 was not the car for me, implying I should buy something else, by someone who had owned a Model 3 for three days, when I've owned a Model 3 for over 14 months and have therefore got around over 100 times more experience of the plus and minus aspects of Tesla ownership. That does carry some weight in any debate, doesn't make my view absolutely right, nor does it make any other view absolutely wrong, but practical experience does count for something.
It's one reason I was interested by the review thread on another forum I recently posted. The author drives around 40,000 miles a year, so his experience counts for more, in my view, than someone that only drives maybe 10,000 miles a year. It also counts for more than many motoring journalists, IMHO, as they rarely get more than a day or so with any new review car, and often it takes weeks, maybe months, to gain a proper understanding of the real character of any car.