I expect Model 3 sales to tank, even with the Y being a bit more expensive.

I have a Model 3, I will be trading it in for a Model Y once they’ve been out for ~6-9 months (i.e. worked out the bugs). If they were both available when I bought my 3, I’d have the Y now. So yeah, there will be cannibalizing.

I know that Tesla is stupidly over-valued right now. I know this.

Look, $28K is $28K. New, used, it makes no difference.

Honestly, what other car in the mid $20k price range provides the performance and feel of a Miata?

A Japanese-built straight-six sportscar? When has that ever worked?

That doesn’t absolve Ford of intentionally selling a fundamentally defective transmission to the public for years. People lost money on these things and expect to be compensated for it.

~6 months ago I got a “Toyota Owner’s Intersection” survey centered around removing the roll-down back window. If I had to guess, that’s on the chopping block for the 6th gen that is currently in development.

You want some more, let’s just head on to J.D Powers for 2019. Guess where Honda is on this dependability survey

Say what you will about the Germans, but my Euro cars have been rock solid.

Please name for me all of these cars that would be marketable in the US but are held back solely by the fact that California has different emissions standards than the other 49 states.

I wouldn’t know whether or not Trump wants a Yaris GRMN, you probably follow his Twitter feed more closely than I do. I didn’t vote for the man, because I don’t vote for idiots.

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Why bother making different versions when one that complies with CA will pass in the rest of the country?

Automakers have been living with these state by state regulations for generations, yet this “limited choice” and “stifled development” which you speak of has never come to fruition.

Thing is, I can’t see them putting it in your LS if it wasn’t designed to be bulletproof for the long-term. This is part of why Toyota has avoided forced induction for so long, they’re worried about reliability.

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Just wait until it gets the Lexus LS500's twin-turbo 3.5L V6.  It will be a fun period of time when you can buy a Land Cruiser / Lexus LX with only a V6 but the Lexus GX still has only a 4.6L V8.

I have a Tesla Model 3, and if anything the bigger problem is Unintended DEceleration.