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2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade

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Re: 2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade

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Post by ajross »

clouddrover wrote: post #130
ajross wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is getting very Gishy. I'll just repeat the original point upthread and depart: Teslas (and the model Y in particular) have poor rearward visibility because of a tapered afterbody, and this was done as a deliberate design decision (one of many) that makes them the most aerodynamic cars on the market. None of that has to do with towing or V2L.

Teslas are not the most aerodynamic cars on the market. The Mercedes EQS is. I think you're spending too much time with Tesla's advertising materials and not enough time with practical realities.

Mercedes got one good test from Edmunds that looks a little better in terms of km/kWh than a Model S (but not the Y or 3), and one duck from Nyland that showed them way behind. If you're trying to claim that car is clearly better then the only thing you can possibly be citing is... advertising materials. Practical realities say the production EQS fell way short of where it claimed it was going to be last spring.

Again, the only car out there with a realistic claim (i.e. in independent testing) to be significantly better than a competing Tesla is the Lucid. And not by a lot, but it looks real.

Re: 2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade

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Post by clouddrover »

ajross wrote: post #131
clouddrover wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teslas are not the most aerodynamic cars on the market. The Mercedes EQS is. I think you're spending too much time with Tesla's advertising materials and not enough time with practical realities.

Mercedes got one good test from Edmunds that looks a little better in terms of km/kWh than a Model S (but not the Y or 3), and one duck from Nyland that showed them way behind. If you're trying to claim that car is clearly better then the only thing you can possibly be citing is... advertising materials. Practical realities say the production EQS fell way short of where it claimed it was going to be last spring. Agai…

You claimed Tesla had superior aerodynamics to any other car on the market. That's factually not the case.

I always find it funny that people get so bought in to something as trivial as a car brand that they're unable to differentiate fact from fiction any more.

That's the power of advertising I suppose. They've advertised at you and it worked.

Re: 2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade

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Post by mgarfias »

mgarfias wrote: post #26
richiezc wrote: post #2

Now if they would only deliver mine, 100 days and counting since I ordered it. Price has gone up $5K since I ordered (I'm locked in but can't change anything)... Estimated delivery window: 1/6/22-2/3/22

My wife ordered a sprinter van 9months ago. Was built in September, got stuck on a parts hood and still isn’t here.

oh, it arrived today. nuts
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