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Garlan Garner
Banned
Whats wrong with car being built by hand?
Like Paganini, Bugatti. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Rolls Royce, and some Porches. Anyone criticizing those being built by hand?
larmor
Active Member
Funny: i would love my 35k car to built by hand...
Reality: i saw a how its made episode on an aventador, and a lot of the carbon fiber body work was laid up by hand. When it was done, they used a coin (most likely a euro, there is irony in this too) to tap the body and listen for defects. While time tested works, so does writing a letter by hand and sending by carrier pigeon.
ModelNforNerd
Active Member
JeffK
Well-Known Member
There's a certain level of precision and reproducibility that comes with cars built by machines. When you take a closer look at cars or motorcycles that are hand build in large quantities you often will see reliability issues and/or high cost of maintenance. Many cars claiming to be "hand built" are partially build by machine.
Experts building a handful of cars where every step is checked for quality is one thing, but it doesn't scale well.
Garlan Garner
Banned
Only point is. Making cars by hand ISN"T bad considering the company that activity keeps.
Garlan Garner
Banned
Reproduction, Speed, Scale, Quantities......are all concerns of Tesla. I love Tesla, however I'm going to love my Model 3 much more.
I'm only interested in one of them. If they make it by hand.....or machine......fine. lol
My only request = Soon please
Garlan Garner
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JeffK
Well-Known Member
I'm just hoping that even with a slower ramp up that AWD and performance timetables are the same.
Garlan Garner
Banned
Absolutely....if not sooner. I surely hope that "someone" in Tesla is working on the Dual Motor right now.
I cant imagine it would be difficult to duplicate its big brother ( or big sister - to be politically correct ) in this regard.
Swampgator
Active Member
That assumes 400K is the current number. It's probably north of 500K at this point.
Garlan Garner
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AlanSqB
Dog Chauffeur
Don't underestimate the potential abandon rate on the reservations. Tesla isn't as easy to finance/lease from as your local Ford or Chevy dealer. Unless they improve their finance tools and offerings, expect a non-trivial number of folks to drop out.
Garlan Garner
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Garlan Garner
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X Fan
Active Member
Very interesting. Nice catch. What I see is first the small inner horizontal bar brake light comes on as the car slowed and then a fraction of a second later the surrounding lens area lights up. They clearly do not light up at the same time. That could just be the way they work, but last month when I spotted a Model 3 RC on I280 near my house it was the small inner horizontal bar brake light that first caught my eye and alerted me to the fact that the white Tesla I was looking at from about 200 feet away was not an S but a 3. But that was the only brake light I saw on the RC I spotted.
