It was the UK's top selling car. But I suspect that Tesla doesn't have the resources to maintain the necessary production infrastructure for the volume of cars produced.
Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
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Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#62I have zero doubt he did this just for the PR and ego boost for him, seeing people so desperate and dumb to keep a LHD car and use that silly stick.
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#63How is it worth to lose the UK, AU and Japanese market with this move? I'm seeing a lot of Teslas in London, I don't see how eliminating the right-hand configuration is justifiable economically. Yeah it might be a ball ache to design a car that supports both driving styles, but all brands with global reach have to deal with it. The grabbing stick is equivalent to being told "fuck you for living in one of those countr…
You're forgetting another massive RHD market in India.
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Czechia, where we drive on the right, I occassionally meet British-side cars. Rarely, but yes. (Corrected.) I suspect that already the fact that you drove on the other side for your whole life must mess with you. I certainly wouldn't dream of trying to drive in the UK, but I am the elusive below-average driver anyway.
It’s less disturbing than you might think, especially if it’s an automatic. The worst bit is when you’re trying to overtake, or when you’re trying to parallel park (coming as someone who learned in left-hand drive cars in the UK, but has since moved to the EU where right-hand drive is the standard).
CZ is, for some reason, a stick-drive country. Automats were very untypical here. Lately, I know of two people driving them, which is two more than during my youth.
I am not even sure why, probably can be filed under the nebulous "cultural pecularities" category, or there are some historic reasons.
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#65Good luck paying and receiving change at your local drive-through.
Is cash still used a lot in GB? Or more specific, do Tesla drivers use cash?
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#66Good. Fewer of these ugly, oversized cars (the model X) on British roads. The damn things have fat arses and I hate driving behind them - they fall in to some kind of uncanny valley size wise. https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1605256/tesla-model-x-model-...
Still get those damn ugly oversized BMW’s and Mercs though
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#67How is it worth to lose the UK, AU and Japanese market with this move? I'm seeing a lot of Teslas in London, I don't see how eliminating the right-hand configuration is justifiable economically. Yeah it might be a ball ache to design a car that supports both driving styles, but all brands with global reach have to deal with it. The grabbing stick is equivalent to being told "fuck you for living in one of those countr…
You're forgetting another massive RHD market in India.
Not to mention Indonesia. None of these are big S/X markets, simply because the S/X market isn’t that big to begin with.
I wonder how many people commenting here thinks this applies to all Teslas and not just the S and X?
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#68I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.
The Model S and Model X account for something like 4% of Tesla’s sales today. They are very niche models. With cost-cutting and margin improvement driving everything at Tesla now, it makes sense they’d discontinue the expensive special configurations of the niche models.
Yeh but the S is still the only good looking Tesla
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#69I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.
I am British but now live in Finland, I've driven extensively in both countries and have taken my European (LHD) car to the UK, it's not that hard. I had a harder time not knowing the local languages of the countries in Europe we crossed in order to interpret signs.
Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive
#70I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.
It is legal but insurance is more expensive and you need to dim daylights so the right light doesnt blind oncoming drivers.