Tesla's Long-Awaited, Lower-Priced Model 3 to Arrive Friday

Post by BoorishBears » Wed, Jul 05, 2017, 11:58 PM UTC

zionic wrote: post #120

BoorishBears wrote: post #114

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The Volt is a more practical competitor to the Model 3, which is part of why I dropped my model 3 reservation for a 2017. Other reasons include a lackluster test drive of a Model S and my increasing skepticism of Tesla's practices as a company (aggressively selling cars before adding new features at a completely random cadence but claiming model years are unnecessary, promises like AP2 parity, QC failures at 20k cars…

The volt is a great car, just wish they made a cool looking one.

Post by Retric » Thu, Jul 06, 2017, 3:14 PM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #116

Retric wrote: post #80

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https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2017/cost-to-own/ https://www.edmunds.com/mercedes-benz/s-class/2017/cost-to-o... 2017 Tesla Model S Average Price Paid $86,200 2017 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Average Price Paid $98,958 Which is just under 15%.

That's misleading. For the S class: "Based on S 550e Plug-In Hybrid with options". As soon as you select any other model: * S550 - $108,506 * S63 - $196,496 * S65 - $241,129 * others - $180K, $230K. So the S-Class is "for the base model" but using it as a litmus for the S class range is no different to only looking at the Model S 60, at $68K.