Compared to mid size trucks its way nicer inside and to live with on a daily basis. Compared to a 40-45k full size its even more nice and not essentially a base model.

What is really interesting to me is that a bunch of cars (at least VW and BMW ones that I can think of) will complain ENDLESSLY about the passenger seatbelt if you so much as put your phone or wallet on the passenger seat that is other wise empty.

1. I use FSD every day too and from work (~25 miles each way). It’s totally safe as designed.

To be fair, it likely wouldn’t help too much in this case as the data you get from a lidar sensor would be fairly inaccurate on something as small and far away as a traffic light 20ft in the air.

I had a BMW i3 that had the automatic cruise control. BMW’s system in that was camera based. For a short time I was driving into the sun in the morning, and into the sun on the way home. It was basically useless during these conditions, everyday. This was on top of that fact that it would regularly mistake shadows…

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Because of the horrendously terrible exterior design.

It is the ugliest, most poorly proportioned, absurdly tall, just wrong in every visual way car on the market.

OP’s point still stands. $5k for a V10 T1 is relatively cheap, they are normally up near 10k, even at 15 years old.

Did the statement from them include the Ad or was that just more kinja excessive ads?

I had coded mine to unlock the range extender to the European rules so I could turn it on anytime under 75% battery and Im pretty sure my 2017 i3 had the bigger battery so it already allowed you to use the full tank capacity.

Better how? I can see how a model 3 would have a performance and range advantage but I doubt it’s built as well plus you would have to associate with a cult that allows Tesla to not fix issues for years like the model 3 front ball joints.

Yes while this will (soon) offer something none of those have.

I mean yeah, I bought my i3 used and would unlikely buy one of these new, especially at this price.

I love it. The range is more than enough for 2 days on my regular commute and with the rotary range extender it could go anywhere for the random times I need to without resorting to my truck.

This is how I felt after test driving a friends “FSD” enabled Model Y about a month or two ago. I only drove on a 25mph 2 lane road and a 55mph 2 lane road and absolutely nothing about the experience was confidence inspiring and at no point was I able to “relax”.

I had an 05 V8 without air suspension for a while. I loved it apart from the god awful fuel economy.

Yeah, I had a 94ah i3+rex and I coded it to allow me to turn on the rex whenever and I could do 75mph during a michigan winter and more or less maintain battery. It was fine as far as I was concerned and my experience with the i3 is why I’m pretty interested in the mazda for when my daily commute normalizes after my…

Yeah, I can see why it is important to people. I just think a huge hurdle for electric vehicles will be people with only 1 car for whatever reason. They wont want sacrifice on the 5% of times they need something (because America where we drive full size pickups everyday because why not).

I just don’t consider an electric vehicle a road trip vehicle. Like yeah.. you CAN do it and it’s easier with a tesla, but there’s alot of vehicles I COULD road trip as well that I just don’t want to.