Thought everyone here on Jalopnik loved hatchbacks... Just sayin...

I say your labels are exclusionary and wrong.

The world moves on without you and your feathery brethren.

“It ran when parked, how hard can it be?”

Came here to state exactly this. It’s no more different than referring to the new Mustang Cobra flat-plane crank engine as a “truck engine”from an F250.

Having physical stores with vehicles for showing and test drives wouldn’t be an online only model.

Ok I’m curious how does socialism have anything to do with ammunition stocks?

You’re jumping the gun. First take a loot at which states will build parts for this thing. Then you can start pointing pork fingers.

Agreed, but teachers HAVE to be in every community, which makes it a sort of unique problem- it’s us, firefighters, police officers, and ambulence drivers that are in every community, and many rural communities actually have volunteer firefighters, rely on state police, and sub out ambulences, so teaching really is…

Seriously! The teacher issue is related also to the number of jobs that require advanced degrees and continual training, but don’t pay enough to validate the cost that goes into receiving that training. But this issue is a problem for all of us who don’t make a living wage and our local governments should make it a…

Could not be more true. It’s infuriating, the way we’ve seemingly come to accept that working full time at the going rate for certain jobs will barely cover rent alone. We’ve accepted that if you work in certain fields, you don’t deserve a decent quality of life.

Better high-res photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHskx8Lq1X

I requested higher resolution photos and they just replied:

You need more stars. MINI has a reputation similar to VW - stellar car for the first 30k miles, a maintenance train wreck thereafter (even if that’s no longer the case). If you’re in the market for a small fun car, you’re typically going to be incredibly price sensitive.

The parking lines have been photoshopped in after the car was parked.

Quiet you! I, one of millions of Internet people, want multi-billion dollar corporations to bend to my whims for products I'll never buy just so I can have something to complain about because my first world life is too easy and this is all I have.

Well stated. As an engineer previously employed on the front lines of producing plastic exterior trim parts, I concur that different finishes are much more difficult to achieve on the same part than most believe. Even inside the industry, designers, stylist, engineers, and (worst) account managers have a hard time…

Yeah, but we’re not just talking about one time sale here. For a brand experience to actually work, Tesla would have to pamper its $35k customers in the same way they pamper $75k customers to keep people coming back to the brand. And if the Model 3 is indeed successful, there will be a lot more customers than before,…

This is my worry as well, they have been able to maintain a special niche market and treat their clients as clients not customers but as they grow they will certainly loose some of that. I think that the charm of being a Telsa owner will be diluted with the 3

Apple can do it with a $499 iPhone (or whatever the hell they cost). Now the big question is can Telsa sell a lot of Model 3s to make a sizeable impact on the entry-level luxury car market? That is the wildcard at the moment.

Apple, Tesla, Trump. It’s all about the #brand