First off this is way more common than the average, statically speaking this shouldn't have happened at all yet.

All they need to say is something that acknowledges its not acceptable to have their cars catching on fire like this and they are working to solve it. Hell they can even make it about consumer safety and how much they care or something like that.

If this were any other automotive company you'd have a press release where they say that. Tesla is just acting like its not even a problem even if their engineers are trying to figure it out.

I was using my numbers as I believe they are right and are a best case scenario for this.

I mean you're shooting yourself in the foot with that number but whatever, we agree its low.

They haven't said its a problem yet, they've just said they'll look at it. Obviously they don't want to create a media frenzy but they could at least say something that acknowledges they are concerned that their cars are catching of fire with this kind of frequency.

Its more like 15,000 but 3 fires for 15,000 new cars is way over the average for fires in automotive accidents. The frequency is also interesting. Its pretty young but we've already had more than one per month.

I wonder how many more fires its going to take before Tesla and their fanboys admit its a problem that they should look into...

Don't need 'em now. Though I agree the massive under bite is not sexy stock.

If you can find an e21 that hasn't been stance'd to hell they are nice looking cars. Though finding one that hasn't been stance'd but tastefully lowered is next to impossible.

But I like body on frame SUVs and XJ Cherokees aren't bat either. They can go all kinds of places you can't take your Subaru.

Low pressure for more grip yo! Though chariots are front legs drive. Interesting set up.

Someone else linked to some more recent data that confirms my point

Because I won. Your batteries come from China, my oil comes from the USA, Canada, Russia, and some from Middle East.

You know you're wrong and trying to defend an idiotic point. This whole time I've been saying cars shouldn't burn in crashes. That's really the end of it.

You know you can edit responses if you wanted to add something right? You don't have to post 3 separate responses. Read my first one, things like this aren't common even though they happen. Statistically not a single Tesla should have caught fire in a crash yet.

Read my other response. It happens, it just isn't common.

I never said it never happened. I said its not common. Also when one catches fire the rest are going to follow.

That was entertaining for about a minute. That would be so annoying to hear at 7am when I just got stuffed onto a plane.

You're wrong though most of that is hype. I've actually met with some of the design team when they were trying to recruit members of my FSAE team. Rather than reuse proven tech and going for simple solutions they did things the most complicated and convoluted way possible. One that comes to mind is an engineer spent…