It's an interesting strategy for sure. Instead of solving the problems facing the current lineup just add another car and a whole new set of problems.
Fake it till you make it.
Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
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#52I used to be super gung-ho about Tesla. I've preordered the X and the 3. Never pulled the trigger on the X, and probably gonna give back my 3 reservation too. I love the way the car drives. The driver experience is amazing, with the way it just goes where you want and autopilot just driving it on the freeway for me. If it was just me, I would get one. But the interiors are awful. They let me test drive an X for a day…
Model X is not a 140,000 car. It starts much lower. You can similarly option up a 5 series to 100k. In any case, I prefer my Model S interiors 10x more than my X5 or Hyundai Santa Fe. Both of them have a 1000 buttons on the front dash with random functions which are hard to figure out. And let’s not get started about the iDrive or whatever it is in Hyundai. I love the clean minimalist interiors of Model S. Model 3 interior looks even better
Re: Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
#53My wife and I are in the market for an EV, but the thing is, even the Model 3 is a bit big for a car to drive around the city and all the tiny cars I've looked at have rubbish batteries.
If Tesla did a small, two-seater city car, with an okay trunk and a decent battery I'd probably buy it.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
This common comment is funny to me because I _like_ Tesla's design sensibilities for their interiors. I'll be the first to say the fit, finish, and materials could all be better, but what they are doing visually is clean and minimal, which I really like. All that said, they hired Anders Bell away from Volvo a while ago specifically to help with interior quality. This may be the first project that really has his mark…
It’s clean but feels like a Hyundai and that is in the best case scenario, which works for the model 3 especially if they can bring it’s price down even more but for the model s it’s a bit shameful.
I have a Hyundai and Model S. They don’t feel remotely similar. The Hyundai feels like a relic from the past and I only bought it in 2015
Re: Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
#55It's an interesting strategy for sure. Instead of solving the problems facing the current lineup just add another car and a whole new set of problems.
Actually, no. This is how stuff happens in the grown-up world where companies can't just drop everything because one product has problems.
Sure, Elon Musk likes to sail close to the wind, but if this were any other car manufacturer, nobody would bat an eyelid.
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#56I wonder how much of Tesla’s problems are because of Musk’s ADD: You have SpaceX, The Boaring Company, Solar City, Tesla Betteries, multiple electric car lines, and now a truck and semi, HyperLoop, OpenAI, and probably a dozen more projects we don’t yet know about. Any one of these would be incredibly hard for any uber genius and time on any one of these is time away from something else. To what degree can you do it all and helicopter in to run the company?
Re: Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
#57I used to be super gung-ho about Tesla. I've preordered the X and the 3. Never pulled the trigger on the X, and probably gonna give back my 3 reservation too. I love the way the car drives. The driver experience is amazing, with the way it just goes where you want and autopilot just driving it on the freeway for me. If it was just me, I would get one. But the interiors are awful. They let me test drive an X for a day…
Model X is not a 140,000 car. It starts much lower. You can similarly option up a 5 series to 100k. In any case, I prefer my Model S interiors 10x more than my X5 or Hyundai Santa Fe. Both of them have a 1000 buttons on the front dash with random functions which are hard to figure out. And let’s not get started about the iDrive or whatever it is in Hyundai. I love the clean minimalist interiors of Model S. Model 3 in…
A fully loaded X is $151,000 + taxes and license. My fully loaded Odyssey was $48,000 including all fees.
I've been in other $151,000+ cars before, and the X isn't anywhere close to that.
Re: Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get this is a subjective opinion, but I happened to be in a tesla store this past weekend. They had a model x on the floor. The seat color chosen? WHITE. It was filthy and generally looked awful, not from a design perspective but a wear and tear perspective. I would have hoped they put more thought into their showroom than to put a color that amplifies dirt and grime on the seat.
That's surprising. The white is not a leather, but a synthetic material. I heard it wears really well with minimal to no staining. I guess in a showroom, it gets more wear than normal.
Funny, I'd guess it gets much less wear than normal. Showroom cars are sat in for a couple of hours in total at best. Cars on the road do many more hours in the same timespan.
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#60So is this where the founders all get to come in and contemplate, compare, and contrast their expensive luxury toys? And then move on to another thread on HN and wax philosophical about economic inequality?
HN is now (fortunately? unfortunately?) large enough that multiple groups of people with different consumer identities coexist under the same forum. I'd guess that startup founders are a minority by user count. As a founder of a startup, I don't own a Tesla (nor do I wax philosophical about economic inequality often), but there are plenty of articles and comment threads that I find valuable. It's also healthy to keep…
"a model 3 is something like $40k-50k (realistically)"
The currently "available" versions start at $44K, and features (seriously, paying $1k for 'non-black' paint?) can easily push that to over $60K.