Assuming the owner understood that ... lots of people don’t.

Hard CP.

You try driving it on the I5 in rush hour ... 

They did - the result sold as the Maverick. 

CP.

The second passenger side door on these is something of an achilles heel in the body work. It’s really long, and it’s hinged instead of being a slide door. The net effect being that the metal around the hinges is stressed every time the door opens, and eventually becomes a point of structural corrosion.

The flip side is this might also be a way to start people thinking of electric cars as serious sports car options too by associating a well known name with one.

If you were looking for a small body vehicle with a 4 cylinder motor, the NA makers simply didn’t get it. At all.

Well, that schnozz on the new BMWs out-uglies the Lexus “Cylon coming to eat you” front fascia. (both are godawful, but apparently BMW wants to win the award).

Considering the Countach had been on the market for a full decade by the time the C4 came out, and the Ferrari 308 had been on the market for 9 years at that point, the question should be “what took GM so long to catch up?”.

We called these things “Ford Grandads” back in the day. Basically, Ford took it’s design language from contemporary LTD/Marquis designs and shrunk it in the wash, and then slapped it on the same chassis as the Maverick ... yuck.  

My first cars were early 70s models, and replacing the fuel filter was about the first thing you did when buying them - it almost always improved fuel flow when the fuel line pressures were usually low to begin with.

Which, several people have pointed out - that wasn’t something I was aware of.  (I knew the _fuel pump_ had moved to being integral with the tank, I was not aware of the filter itself - beyond a fairly coarse filter to screen out random debris)

Yes, and I’ve read about the process they are using to make that replacement. It’s _very_ high risk:

Key word: “Properly Designed”.

The part itself is actually fairly inexpensive. However, because Tesla opted to mount it directly to a main board, it’s expensive to replace (current pricing seems to be around $2K?)

Yes, but if a tire fails, I just have to replace the tire, not the entire wheel assembly including the hub and brake rotor.

Quite possible, although the OTA change is at best a mitigation for the problem, rather than a fix.  The problem is still a hardware issue. 

Think of it as making the fuel filter part of the gas tank. We know the fuel filter has to be replaced every so often or the fuel flow chokes off, but this time the manufacturer has made it so you have to replace the entire gas tank in order to fix the filter problem.

This could be a case of choosing the wrong technology for the job. Although eMMC is in the “right direction” for what Tesla is doing, as a data logging choice, it’s a bit questionable - especially since they appear to have used an implementation that isn’t readily serviceable.