“Consumer Reports trashes Tesla’s ‘flawed’ Model X” means that Tesla won’t be getting a lot of 7-year-old Camry trade-ins!
It seems that the review is consistent with my own: “Smug, Rich Bastard for a Weekend (Tesla X review)”
Related:
- Bill Burr on the subject of guys who drive practical cars (the Mercury Tracer is mentioned about 7 minutes in)
If we build the wall will a Tesla X be able to travel through it?
>> If we build the wall will a Tesla X be able to travel through it?
Not really, but the driver should be able to dig a tunnel under the wall in no time. If Hamas did it in Israel, why couldn’t we?
Why wouldn’t the 2nd row seats fold? Isn’t part of the “utility” in SUV the ability to carry around big stuff. In my minivan, 2nd & 3rd row fold flat into the floor leaving you with enormous cargo area – now THAT’s utility. I still haven’t figured out what crime the minivan is guilty of? Perhaps lack of sexiness, the unforgivable sin?
Just got a new car w/ nav – the maps are already out of date and each map update is $169 from the dealer. For $169 Garmin will sell you complete GPS unit with lifetime free map upgrades. Alternative is that it has “Android auto” – if you plug your phone into the USB, the phone takes over the dash screen and you can project google maps up there. But it makes the user experience schizophrenic – two completely different nav programs, phone dialers, music apps, etc. – plug in the USB and Jeckyll become Hyde. Head unit is priced into the car but for $200 they could have just put an android tablet with google maps in the dash and called it a day. But I guess that way they couldn’t keep selling map updates for the next 10+ years.
These guys are getting paid to adjust their reviews down. Electric cars are still enough of a novelty for the electric part to be worth a lot more than they give credit. The Robert Deniros & Ellen Degenerates of the world, people rich enough to be better off flying anywhere longer than 200 miles, would be thrilled to never have to stop at a gas station. Surely some of the glitches are offset by the lack of all the pains of a gasoline engine. Despite 10 years of interest free loans making $120,000 cars as common as macaroni, they still have to be compared to super cars more than everyday drivers. Super cars give up a lot of convenience to be super cars. Of course, in today’s dollars, even a garden shed qualifies as a super mansion.
Jackie – re: minivan guilt – The surface reason minivans aren’t cool is they remind people that they are really just boring parents instead of exciting, adventurous explorers taking on the world. The underlying reason minivans aren’t cool is they aren’t nearly as profitable as SUV’S (now mostly CUV’S which are even-cheaper-to-make cars on stilts), so marketeting convinces people that cars are extensions of their basic selves, and who wants part of themself to be a boring grocery-getter with lots of space and practicality?
It’s the same for the minivan’s cousin, the wagon. Basically the same price as the sedan, same power, handling, and efficiency, but with more space to carry stuff, often more space than a cuv. But nobody wants to look like a wagon, so they buy CUV’S.