They look dated, or weird, have patchy customer service, and are not even that long range anymore.
They look dated, or weird, have patchy customer service, and are not even that long range anymore.
The recent model y looks terrible, like a duck.
And the ergonomics are cheap and dangerous.
Removing turn signal stalks, drive select stalks is dangerous. I like the idea of buttons, but turn signal buttons? buttons on a moving steering wheel? and the rest of the critical controls buried on a touchscreen? inside door handles? ugh.
They look terrible. They looked terrible when they came out 13, 8 and 5 years ago and they have aged very poorly.
Considering all 13 the same might be a stretch, but if you just take the 6 that are the same size as the id.4 you still end up with the same result.
With Tesla at least you can pay $5 per day to use their tools (and you NEED their tools because they are up to date with cars firmware).
I'm sure once cars are EOL'd Tesla will release final version of diagnostics, like they did with Roadster - https://github.com/teslamotors/roadster
Tesla on the other hand is famous for both making minor changes to their vehicles pretty much continuously and a bad history of parts availability.
I guarantee you that even if I don't like their car, their dealership will very likely have the part you need around the time you need it. It's not the only car-adjacent company that does something like this (Valeo for sure does it too, i worked with them also), but I'm pretty sure it's the only one who has an internal data scientist team working on it.
Yet (salute + support for ADF party) * touchy german history = auto non-grata.