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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.
Good. 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-...
Yes, one of the upsides of driving on the left is that it has spared the UK/Australia/Japan from those awful American gas guzzler tanks.
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This is just plain wrong. Last year Tesla sold 56,000 cars in the UK. That makes it about the same size market as the next three largest European countries combined. Given the doom mongering in the news you’d assume everyone in the UK is foraging in bins for their food, but the reality is there is plenty of people with money.
>you’d assume everyone in the UK is foraging in bins for their food, but the reality is there is plenty of people with money. There is almost never a dearth of people with money. The median income is more telling about the state of a nation.
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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).
I 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 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 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's legal , but no way would I drive a left-hand drive car on the left side of the road and vice-versa. Saw lots of UK right-hand-drive cars tootling around France, and even been driven in one there. But no way would I consider doing that myself, or the reverse in the UK. To pass anybody, you have to take the whole of the car out from behind the car in front of you to see whether it's safe enough to pass, instead of…
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Tesla is basically not selling the S and X in the UK anymore. But they are still allowed to buy a LHD version for some reason, that must have more to do with UK’s own laws on fancier cars that they already import from Italy and Germany?
Legally speaking there’s no issue with driving LHD in the UK, or RHD on the mainland, as long as you keep to the correct side of the road (which is a legal imposition).
And a physical one.
Sounds like The Onion.
I had to do a double check to see if I was actually reading an Onion article.