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Imho Teslas feel very much like a car that Apple could have designed. Lots of aspects of the whole experience are fundamentally different than other cars. Maybe I'm not thinking radically enough, but then Jony Ive is pursuing other career options, too.

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Teslas are the Alienware of automobiles. Flashy, ostentatious, and aimed at enthusiasts with more money than taste.

Apple would likely have made something that evoked elegance. It would have contrasted with Tesla in the same way a Macbook contrasts with an Alienware.

This is a reasonable analogy.

+1 good analogy

Tesla is the opposite of "flashy and ostentatious," their car designs are boring as are their interiors.

I don't know where you could possibly be getting that impression when they make the most milquetoast sedans on the market.

Yeah it’s much closer to if Jony Ive worked at Suzuki or something.

With the notable exception of Cybertruck I like to think of them as “conservative AF, but with fewer buttons and knobs”. Sort of like the iPhone. The visual similarity of the onboard computer to iOS design only reinforces the impression.

Flashy? What teslas are you referring to. and have you seen the inside??

Apple would have made a car without keys that you open with your phone and that has a big touchscreen with UI that doesn't have multi second latencies and hardware from 8 years ago in a brand new vehicle?

Flashy? Ostentatious? I mean, regular people with no particular interest in speed or flashy interior/exterios also buy Tesla's. The Tesla 3 is pretty plain and just very functional - works great. I don't have one but I know several people with Teslas, they seem super happy with their vehicles.

I always thought Tesla cars have very bland and boring designs (except the truck which, it is still bad, but at least not boring).

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