EZZ

I'm not surprised at the quality issues. Never get the first year of a new model Tesla. It takes them a full year to get the quality to a decent state. It will never be great.

JeffKeryk

Sandy Munro had an interesting opinion... He said anyone can improve panel gaps, paint, etc. But no one comes close to the Tesla EV engineering and overall tech.

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

True, but i'll consider a tesla when the quality is better.

definitely super impressive, and maybe no one comes close today, but that's not guaranteed forever. with such a huge amount of development going on, at least one company will emerge as a real competitor to tesla. Could be vw/audi/porsche, could be chinese, could be someone else unexpected (hyundai/kia).

And there's tech tesla just refuses to do like HUD, apple carplay / android auto which are widely appreciated by billions of drivers.

EZZ

Those things are just features that they choose not to implement. Its commodity and anyone has access to it. Tesla does technology that is unique to themselves like their BMS and carbon sleeve rotors and structural battery implementations. Tesla is definitely not right for everyone but to those that want the speed or technology aspects, it get super high praise from them. Also, features that Elon doesn't like (HUD for example) will unfortunately never be implemented. The yoke steering wheel is an example of something that Elon wanted, the public doesn't really like, the company probably is embarrassed about, but happens because Elon is CEO.

I'm sure the other OEMs will get good enough in power and range to compete and they will probably have the more standard features that a lot of people want. There are plenty of customers to go around If the new tax rebate comes in, do i get a Mach E or Model Y or something else... I tried to convince wifey to let me get a Plaid and I would give her my car but she is terrified I'll kill myself

rominl

iTrader: (4)

This has to be one of the BEST and funniest posts I have read in a long while

His reviews and character has been annoying since the beginning. He does have decent coverage but his voice and gestures...

that's like back then when some people say they will never try lexus until they have good overall performance. i see the merit and that's ok, but definitely missing some good stuff

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

No doubt tesla has loads of good stuff.
just last night i was picking up some pizza to go and a model Y was parked right outside, and i waited outside for my order to be ready so i could breathe without an annoying mask.
The Y driver got in, backed up and drove away. The interesting synthetic sound it made as he reversed, and then of course the basically silent drive off, definitely gets any enthusiast's attention including this one.

Tesla to me is basically a mixed bag. Incredible in many ways, crappy in others. Obviously for many they can look past the crappy and enjoy the incredible.

Fizzboy7

Fun car and report, but I guarantee Doug's facial speed reaction is fake.

Kense

Is this really a first year Model tesla though? Its the same body as the Model S basically and the paint etc issues don't have anything to do with model year. That should have been corrected years ago. There's no excuse for a 100K car to be built this crappy.

EZZ

It is wider and has new fenders along with a completely new interior. I'm sure the lines are different and so the actual process has changed. Many others have no issues with their cars (watch Brook's video) and come with good quality cars...others have the mess on this video. Tesla's consistency isn't great. Mine has some panel gaps and a rattle here and there but overall, its held together well and many other owners express the same thing. But unlike a Lexus forum where a quality rant is super rare, you'll get quality rants on the Tesla forum from some unhappy customer that got a Friday car.

The owner also should have gotten the paint fixed on the car...i haven't seen that particular problem before. Thats just a mistake from the factory and Tesla will correct stuff like that for free.

Hameed

Finally watched Doug's video. Overall the review was predictable and a bit informative (if you are very familiar with a Model S). He made a couple of mistakes (he didn't know the car has a "bio-weapon defense mode" for the HVAC - essentially a very powerful HEPA filtration system - he just called it a powerful fan mode or something).

I want this car even more now! 😄

Have to wait a couple of years though to get "the best car ever made".

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

it's for when there's real farts in the cabin and not just the fart cushion mode.

amazing car but i have zero interest in owning one.

Hameed

You could have fooled me!


It now has a user configurable sound (simulate an ICE car) - something you've been asking for , for a very long time. 😄

Toys4RJill

I like the speedometer screen. The center console screen as well. The wires less charging and the PRNDL buttons. The steering wheel is cool. I don’t care for the rest of the interior. I always dislike the fixed seat belts with no adjusters. I thought the review by Demiro hits the mark exactly.

dojoman

iTrader: (5)

It's embarrassing the build quality is so bad even for 130k car and how hard is to paint cars with robots always consistent result and Tesla manages to screw that up. Elon simply doesn't care about build quality since they're selling cars like hot cakes but still baffles me?

EZZ

I thought this was a fun video. The motorcycle takes some serious skill to ride fast