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Tesla Model 3: Review

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27 pointsjosephscott17 comments

My god I dislike Alex Roy. This is a guy that made a name for himself doing speed runs cross country putting many innocent people at risk. Somehow he has bootstrapped that into having “the first serious review” of the model 3? Yeah right.

Aside from that, many people have done better reviews of the model 3 in print and on YouTube. Doug DeMuro had a good one which I watched recently.

Alex Roy is the most unlikable car reviewer out there, but somehow he keeps in the same circle as Demuro, Farrah, and (kinda) Harris. His reviews suffer because of his weird ego and self consciousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6VqldjTT8

Agreed, it's great.

Having a 15 inch touch screen set off to the right as your main user interface in a _car_ is insane. This is taking the stupidity of touch-only volume controls to the next level.

I don't care how good the autopilot is, if I can't control everything essential via tactile based controls while keeping my eyes on the road, your design has failed.

I agree, but Tesla seems to have sweated the human factors way more than any other car company. When I test-drove a Model S, I expected the screen to suck. But I didn't hate it. Somehow it just works. It's difficult to explain.

When I test-drove the Model S, the screen felt like I had to use a 3 year old Android tablet to do things like volume change or AC. I didn't like it. It felt slow to me. I don't mind the non-tactile-ness of it, it just felt old and slow. Definitely not what I was expecting.

That's because you should be using the physical scroll wheels on the steering wheel for tasks that you're likely to perform while driving, such as changing music volume or AC temperature, but you probably didn't get the chance to program them to your liking during a short test drive.

That makes sense. I'm sure it gets better with some personalization, but still, let's say the navigation felt like an old version of Google Earth running on an old tablet. Very cool and definitely very pretty though.

Interesting that he mentions the Model T - wonder how the prices compares with a Model 3 when adjusted for inflation?

Edit: 1913 Model T runabout was $525 (taking the listed price 10 years after Ford’s inception as Tesla is now a similar age).

Adjusted for inflation that is now approx $13,840 according to https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

So at least 3 x cheaper than the $35,000-55,000 price of a Model 3.

(Disclaimer: calculated from bed during 4am insomnia)

Sure but that's only calculating for inflation. There's also been real growth in income over the time period.

This is a horrible review. First he claims his competitors are whores (his words, not mine) but then doesn't back up his review with any actual information. Just look at this review of the navigation system:

"Navigation/GPS: Wonderful. In conjunction with Tesla's excellent voice control, it's a revelation. Other manufacturers should weep."

That's it. That's the whole review. It doesn't tell us anything about why it's a revelation or why other manufacturers should weep.

_sigh_ Several suspicious paragraphs spent claiming that they have no dog in the TSLA race, followed by yet another fanboy review.

The car had outside air blowing on your leg? Dude, if I bought a Kia with that issue I would promptly return it.

It's so weird how he claims things are perfect then overexplains why flaws are not-really-flaws.

Keep waiting if you want a real objective review.

It’s still too expensive

It's actually cheaper to own than a Honda Civic. These guys did a fairly solid breakdown of the ownership costs over 5 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_ub5eL9n0

The review model in OP is 55k not 35k

No it’s not, the problem with Tesla is repairs or the lack there of pretty much anything above cosmetic damage gets a write off as total loss by the insurance companies.

Tesla should allow for proper repair of damages if it won’t, the insurance costs will sky rocket and the environmental impact is also there.

On the other hand people have been buying written off Tesla’s with very little actual damage and repairing them so you get a model S for like 10,000 dollars.

“(D” lettrine! :/

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