Different cars for different folks. The M3P is a great entry vehicle with fit and finish that's "North American 25-35K car" quality in fitment and materials. On the track its fun for a few laps until it overheats and you have to come in. On the highway its fun up to about 70 after which the acceleration tails off and pretty badly and any ICE sports car can drag it badly. The built in screen is great, however if you want other apps then its a closed garden where "Elon knows best what you "want"". For the "point and squirt" around town, its hard to beat the Model 3, but if you want a quality interior, something that will take some spirited driving without overheating, and can play north of 70 mph, and is extensible w/phone integration then in its current form its not the car for you.
Sorry, but this is exactly the reason I made the video - same old same old from people who never drove a Model 3 or don't own a new one.
First - overheating. I regularly drive my model 3 AWD (not P) with 200+km/h (120-140+mph) and have 0(as in zero, nada) overheating. From 150 to 200km/h+ all the time, due to overtakings and trucks which is actually worse than driving straight 200+.
The last run I did was from Leipzig to Berlin which is about 170km and I did in about 1 hour. You can do the math there. I also show in the video where I did avg. of 100mph over 100km and not a single overheating (you can watch the video) I don't do drag races, but I am yet to see a situation where an ICE regular car on the road can stand a chance from overtaking...
Here is a Video from Bjorn Nyland on the subject
Here is another one
Granted, the M3P is not a sports car, but there is certainly no overheating. And unless you intend on driving either car on flat 250km/h, which I doubt anyone can outside of the track, 99% of the people will not come even remotely close to anything related to overheating.
The 70mph you mentioned just shows that you have no idea what you are talking about because at 70mph I can barely feel the motors running(it actually just runs the rear one, the front is idle at these slow speeds - 70mph might sound like much to you, but in Germany we drive at 70mph on one lane roads...)
Second fit and finish, I talked about it in the video. Tesla has its manufacturing issues, but I didn't see anything that screams 150,000$ more...My M3 is actually perfect in the panel gaps. It has some minor issues with some cables rattling, but this was fixed. Can I expect more, sure, of course. But I still wouldn't pay 150,000$ (which I can btw), because I don't see any benefit there.
Closed garden - actually they are thinking about opening it for developers now that you said that. Not that you can do anything on the resistive screen on a Taycan and don't understand why this is an argument at all since Tesla is the only manufacturer that actually has apps and webbrowers and Spotify, Netflix etc. Sure, you can have apple car play, but on an 7" screen? Not fun.
As for the rest - yes, it is like an iPhone and I am an Android user. So this is why I don't like a lot of the approaches that Tesla makes and as much as I would like someone to beat them to their game, I don't see that happening any time soon (maybe in 5-8 years)
but you also have to be fair, and Porsche has done one hell of a good job on the Taycan!!
I am fair. I am very, very fair. This is why I present all the angles.
You keep saying that, but don't present any facts? What I am mostly discussing in the video is technology - this is what I care about and this is what we are comparing. Wether the Porsche, with all its technology and experts can beat a "Start up". And the answer is simply no.
Tesla has the most efficient DUs, has the biggest charing network, has the better and cheaper battery cells.
Porsche needs to go the overkill to have 800V and TWO! inverters just to make the car work on 50kW and 150kW network (by the way, check if you purchased that 150kW option and wether you will need it in Switzerland, because you might not, but you also might, not sure), because none of them support the 800V system, just to make the car charge so fast, because it is so inefficient.
They have to add a heavy transmission that can break and needs mantianance just so that they can be remotely close to the Model 3's efficiency at high speeds and still can't beat it.
Of course Porsche can make a car, have its insides designed fully, have a great built quality (while the panel gaps issue, is still a issue even at Porsche) - we all knew that even before the Taycan. But ultimately this is an EV, with all its "downsides".
And we have to remember that the Porsche has an active suspension, of course it will handle better than an M3P. I really feel like the M3P is at least 10,000$ more expensive than it should be and must have active suspension, but I guess this will come soon.
And the question is - can it actually be a rival at this price point with so bad technology to something like a Roadster or even a M3P? And the answer is unfortunately it can't. The only reason people will buy that car is the brand and the status that comes with it. And maybe service (although I hear only good things about Tesla Switzerland - they seem to have the service on a high level there)
But for all other purposes, it will fail badly for anyone who isn't an EV enthusiast and just wants a Porsche that they can drive fast on the Autobahn. I hope that having to stop every 150km to charge and then only find broken chargers like I did, doesn't ruin the whole "EV thing" for a lot of people...