I was driving a 91 Ford Escort Coupe, like this one:

I didn’t get a pre-purchase inspection on my last used, high mileage BMW purchase.

No. You use the accelerator pedal to moderate how much go power or slow power you want. Lifting fully off the pedal gives you full regen, which feels like very strong engine braking.

If you are not capable of driving your own car today in a manner that uses the brakes as little as possible, you are not a good driver (“you”, as in “people”). Successfully driving to avoid brake use requires you to be highly situationally aware, planning your maneuvers ahead and anticipating other drivers actions, in…

Eh, I doubt it. You still need to step on the brake to turn the car on and put it in gear. And regen braking doesn’t work well at slow speeds (like backing up, or driving in parking lots), and you’ll still need to use the brakes on hills and such.

Exhaust compression braking (jake brakes) is illegal in places. Engine braking (which, admittedly, diesels do less well than gasers) is fine.

Its actually pretty great, and I’m saying that as a die hard, row-my-own, always had a manual transmission driver. We have a Tesla Model S P85, and the regen braking feels like very strong compression braking, which gives the car a driving experience much more similar to our other manual transmission cars (past and…

I think legal and liability driven protections should protect people from other peoples’ negligence, maliciousness and/or greed.

Its already bad enough with the liability and protection of idiots, the absent minded and the distracted. Where does it stop?

Great article! I do appreciate the insight, and I don’t doubt you guys have a tough job to report on the industry full of opinions.

This is the downside of the sharing economy: Most people don’t care about the thing they’re all sharing. They just use it and abuse it. Its someone else’s job to fix it after they trash it.

Its pretty much the difference between a fastback and a wagon. The back lid of the Model S is so sloped, it does cut into the capacity somewhat, and it also limits the “large box shape” capacity as well, but, there’s also no exhaust to breathe in, so for really short distances, its not horrible to just strap the back…

If our Model S wasn’t a fastback, we wouldn’t have bought it...

I gotta say, there’s something I really like about square former communistical cars done up in racing sponsorships (completely anti-communist) and being driven in a manner that would be downright subversive and definitely illegal under communist times!

Relax dude, you’re trolling too hard.

So, after 6 years and nearly 200,000 cars delivered, Tesla is now finally getting around to scamming people out of $3500?

No, I’m seeing two types of complainers and am responding to each complaint:

Well, you think its shady, because you don’t understand the ordering process that Tesla has had since 2012.

If you want to order a VW Jetta from the factory, I’m pretty sure you need to put down a deposit...

Tesla’s going to pass the 200,000 car delivered mark very early in Q3 (in the next few days, a week at most). That means they get all of Q3 and all of Q4 to sell cars with the full tax credit, and then all of Q1 2019 with half the tax credit, and all of Q2 2019 with a quarter tax credit.