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Pretty much what you said. Good range, supercharging, auto pilot, decent infotainment system, good warranty, cheap to run and a good price. Whats not to like?

It can achieve 237 Watt hours per mile which is incredible compared to just a few years ago.

The only odd thing about the car is not having your normal dials in the normal place, but I think I could get past that quite quickly.

They should be much easier car to produce than the above two, lets hope there are no engineering/technical issues that come up.

Shipments to the UK will not be until 2019 so I wouldn't count on getting one in a couple of years if you have not already ordered.

We will see these going on ebay* for $50k in a month or two once they start getting out of Tesla circles.

EDIT: Forgot to say it fast too, 5.1 0-60 and 140mph.

Though it does worry me that people that are not used to driving fast cars are suddenly going to find themselves in the driving seat of the sort of 0-60 times that are normally reserved for full on 'sports' cars.
 
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As Rilot mentions, I think lease deals could be key. They're currently offering 1.5% apr on the S with PCP which is fantastic. I can see Elon's plan of essentially renting your car like you would a phone could quite easily become a reality. But as long as there's such high demand and not enough supply I can't see that happening.
 
They are pretty reliable I think. But since you can't simply change parts as they wear on the motors, when it does eventually go, the bill will be astronomical.

What I find silly about the Teslas, is they are electric powered yet they fill the interior with electricity sucking gadgets. They should have used as many analogue systems as they could to improve the range. Also the giant touch screen looks stupid.
 
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Nasher said:
They are pretty reliable I think. But since you can't simply change parts as they wear on the motors, when it does eventually go, the bill will be astronomical.

What I find silly about the Teslas, is they are electric powered yet they fill the interior with electricity sucking gadgets.
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No one knows about the reliability yes as they have only just started deliveries.
As to the comment about the electricity sucking gadgets.... So, you want a car with no nav, no power windows, seats, roof etc., no air-con, no stereo etc? No one would buy it. These cars are aimed to compete with the BMW 3-Series, Merc C-Class, Audi A4, and Jag XE. Gadgets are expected.

Basic cars with nothing but an engine and heater will come in time from the volume manufacturers and will be aimed at the sort of people who buy a MG3, Hyundai i20 etc.
 
Nasher said:
They are pretty reliable I think. But since you can't simply change parts as they wear on the motors, when it does eventually go, the bill will be astronomical.

What I find silly about the Teslas, is they are electric powered yet they fill the interior with electricity sucking gadgets. They should have used as many analogue systems as they could to improve the range.
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Don't worry tesla will replace the front motor for free after 15k miles just like the failing S motors.... interesting RWD only at launch.

Electricity sucking gadgets in a tesla? Dude they don't even have door storage pockets.
 
Car looks like crap but will no doubt sell by the bucketload.
The 5 second 0-60 for 30k will make it the new 335d on Internet forums. Affordable to the masses and spoken about like it can destroy everything else on the road.
As someone else just mentioned the 5 second 0-60 is a quick car given how the other Tesla's have got instant brutal acceleration so it is worrying that average people namely women will be driving a performance car like that with no ability.
 
Yea and the scary thing is, aren't they RWD as standard? That makes it even more scary in the hands of an armature. Loads of instant torque + rain.
 
We've got a very early deposit down for one, so looking forward to finding out when we can expect delivery in fairness!

Looks fanastic to me, the interior could have done with a HUD option but aside from that it's far more appealing than some of the muddled interiors you see nowadays.
 
they just hold zero attraction for me. Just feels very very boring.

I'm sure I'm mad and completely wrong but they just seem so utterly dull.

Give me an engine that gets me to 60 in 5 secs rather a battery.
 
Whilst I love one, our infrastructure isn't there yet for the ease of use compare to a petrol car.

Whilst the range is good enough for me to get to the airport, or the hotel at the other end, but not knowing I could park at a charging station at the hotel or airport car park means the car will not be used at that journey.
 
I would absolutely love one. 80 miles for day to day is enough and 200 or even call it 150mile range is enough, I want to stop anyway.
However it is still well outside my price range. Maybe by mid 20s second hand EVs will be in the sub 5k catogry, unfortunately 2nd hand leafs don't have the range for the long trips and most at the cheaper end don't have the fast charge capabilities anyway.
 
fastwunz said:
they just hold zero attraction for me. Just feels very very boring.

I'm sure I'm mad and completely wrong but they just seem so utterly dull.

Give me an engine that gets me to 60 in 5 secs rather a battery.
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Yea, the noise of an engine is part of the fun. It's like F1 when they changed to 4cyl turbos. Even though the cars are faster they don't sound fast.
 
Nasher said:
What I find silly about the Teslas, is they are electric powered yet they fill the interior with electricity sucking gadgets. They should have used as many analogue systems as they could to improve the range. Also the giant touch screen looks stupid.
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It's all relative.

How many watt hours do you reckon those gadgets suck? EVs are storing a crazy amount of power. The base spec Model 3 holds enough electricity to power my desktop PC for over a week.
 
Nasher said:
They are pretty reliable I think. But since you can't simply change parts as they wear on the motors, when it does eventually go, the bill will be astronomical.
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What parts do you expect to wear? Motors are incredibly simple and reliable. It's not like you need to replace drive belts and spark plugs. How often to you have to replace the engine in your ICE car....? Electric drive motors are relatively cheap compared to compared to engines. They also can be refurbished/reconditioned. Just look at the industrial applications of electric motors where zero downtime is acceptable.

Battery on the other hand, yes that will be expensive.

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No HUD, no instrument cluster for the driver, no physical controls - so everything entails taking your eyes off the road, or mucking about with the touchscreen (one that's about as elegantly integrated as nailing a iMac to the dash, at that).
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This is the one thing that I get, but you can set the touch screen to display what you want and there really isn't any need to touch it again other than to change music. There is voice control but its not exactly google.

It will take some getting used to not having an instrument cluster but other than speed and range there really isn't anything to look at in an electric car. I remember the original new Mini had the speedometer in the middle and some Citrons in the past.

Firestar_3x said:
Why oh why haven't they fitted an interior to this car, what a total and utter disappointment.
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Come again?
 
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