I haven't changed it in 10 years. PM me with whatever number you're texting and I'll give you the correct digits. Me and Emerson exchange newds all the time. Texts are great.
Well they all have a low center of gravity. The improvement on the 3 seems to be a combination of 1000lbs less weight on a car with a shorter wheelbase, sitting on firmer springs with lightning quick steering turn-in.
I don't think Tesla is chasing the road course crowd. On the street I can abuse my S through all the twisties and I won't have a problem but if you're taking it to a road course you're going to have a bad time. I just don't think we're there yet and I don't think we'll be there soon because the type of person that tracks their car generally isn't looking at an electric sedan to begin with. I'm a unicorn in that respect.
at 54k i still hardly consider it an everyman car, although it's cheaper than a new s of course. electric car of the people?
$35,000 is the starting price. $49,000 is the first available (cheapest you can get for the next few months) and then $5,000 is tacked on to my price for Autopilot. At $35,000 I'd say it's the car of the people. Is it going to be a kid's first new car purchase? Probably no but is it exponentially more attainable than the S and if you're lucky enough to buy one before the tax credit expires. it will only cost you $27,500.
I think you're taking me a little too literally. We're moving downmarket is the generally point I'm making and we moved downmarket in a big way.
Nah, I never sent the first one. I posted it on Opposite Lock. Back in the day you used to be able to post on all the various sub-blogs and then Jalopnik editors would grab their favorite stories and share them to the main site. I wish they still had that. Now I just do it mostly because I like going back and reading what I said about old cars.
Thanks. I didn't think it would be a pile but I was pleasantly surprised.
Not yet as far as I know.
They were but that appears to be improving.
No clue. :-(
Insurance should be (and likely will be) less as we're talking fully autonomous cars here which will be safer than human drivers. Renters will be on the Tesla network and also on camera (inward facing camera built into the rearview mirror) so insurance companies aren't going to charge a premium because you have strangers in your are. Statistically the expensive accidents are with other cars, not vandalism and in theory your autonomous car would never be in an at-fault accident which will lower insurance. There's even talk about Tesla self insuring and I believe Volvo even recently said that by a certain year they will take full responsibility for any accident caused by their autonomous car.
I have some videos about 20 minutes long but no time to really chop them together. Maybe I'll just toss up the raw footage. Mike K uncut.
Good post.
Only thing I wanted to comment on was the tax rebate.
I'm sure you didn't mean to apply it as such, but, the $7,500 is NOT guaranteed for everyone. If someone buys the Model 3, but, only paid $6,000 in federal taxes, they will only get a portion. If you pay over $7,500 in taxes, you can get the full amount of the rebate.
This will apply to a good amount of people, but, certainly not everyone. So, including that as an arguing point to reduce the price cannot be applied to the masses. A lot of people finance cars and buy 30K cars all the time, but, don't make that much money.
For $35,000 plus about $4,000 in taxes/fees put this car around 40K, which is not bad. If you want to get more options, it is easily a mid 50K car.
