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The critic in addition to criticizing the fit and finish (fair thing to do) chose to criticize aspects of its emergency design --but according to commenters, same critic swooned over BMW i3 which has similar emergency design choices. Maybe the critic has a point, but then should at least criticize EV MFGs equally.

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Does anyone ever consider the possibility that the quality of the car reflects the quality of the producer? No, it always has to be some conspiracy

I don't know man Tesla brings out the worst in people.

My take: Tesla is a new car builder running into the same problems as every other new car builder. They're not better or worse. Making good cars at volume is hard.

The conspiracy angle is ridiculous. Tesla is NOT disrupting this industry, not until they make 10 million cars a year at a sub $30000 price. Japanese auto makers in the 70s and 80s were disrupting. Although I do think some car makers are jealous of the good vibe the Tesla brand has.

I think the guy in the article’s comments about it being like a 90’s Kia reinforces your comment, the Kias were known to be of cheap/bad build quality when they first came out but have gotten much better since.

Of course, why assume that complaints about quality of their products must come only from dishonest, stupid or otherwise malicious people? Until recently the default strategy of Musk was to attack or discredit the critic instead of addressing the issue

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