Yes, the engineer with years of experience in designing cars is a joke, listen to the Tesla owners and fanboys instead!

I’m constantly blown away by how realistic iRacing is. The physics of Scott’s car completely mirrors how he drives in real life. Great job iRacing!

oh good... it was just one of the new ones...

EloN MusK iS gEniuS. TesLa Is beTteR ThaN anY InTerNal COMbUsTIon beCauSE ScienCe.

Honestly though, I really can’t handle the Tesla fanboys, they’re basically Bugatti fanboys. They take in all the marketing BS that the company puts out, then just run with it. The idea of a zero emissions family car with supercar levels…

What’s your vanity tag? NOGAS? 4EARTH? MODEL3?

If you saw similar quality issues on a Kia, you would proclaim it to be a POS. But because it is Tesla, you are giving them a pass.

Points deducted for even panel gaps?

The standard range Model 3 does not exist.

As a former firefighter, I can tell you that it’s very VERY important to cut the power on any vehicle involved in an accident. 100% of vehicles that have had significant damage require their power sources to be disconnected.

All you’d have to do is park it for a day or two and look at it from time to time.

I’m sure it will be along the lines of “these cars are only the beta tests, they’ll be much better when they start selling widespread to the public” and “Tesla is still a newcomer to the industry, give them time to work out the kinks.”

No shit. On top of that, if you’ve ever met a highly qualified engineer then you’ll know that:

“The hyperbolic character of his assessment”

Is one of the earliest and surest signs of engineering qualifications. Every talented engineer I’ve ever known speaks about technical subjects, especially quality problems, in a…

Any accident where a passenger is stuck in the car, they will usually start cutting, or using the jaws to rip the door open. When they do this they wan’t power to be disconnected so that they don’t electrocute themselves.

The hyperbolic character of his assessment leads me to wonder how long he’s been familiar with mechanical engineering

Clearly they have never taken apart a Maserati Ghibli.

I suspect designing a vehicle to survive strikes from larger vehicles requires a certain level of willingness to deform aggressively. Sucks that your car gets totalled from a small crash, but it may save your life in a large one. Like those old 70s cars that were structurally strong for low speed impacts but kill you…

SEE FOLKS!!! HE SAID IT WAS “LIKE NOTHING LIKE HE’S EVER SEEN BEFORE”!! TESLA IS GREAT!!!

I am going to go out on a limb and say it is easier when you have mechanical engineers building a car vs the dropouts from Apple that think every piece of the car should be integrated and not removable except at a Tesla Service center.

Goddamn that hatch looks good. Who the hell wants a damn sedan that small?

It relates to the XE (despite being a completely different car) in the same way as the F Pace relates to the XF.