So an Escalade doesn’t qualify as luxury, then?

“Luxury” is not interchangeable with “performance.” A WRX STI is not a “luxury” vehicle, no matter how fast it is.

Matt Farah had a great take on this once. Said his Chevy Volt was a luxury car to him — V12 Lambo doesn’t do you any good when you’re sitting in traffic and an EV passes you in the HOV lane.

No, and its idea of lane-keeping is “oh, I see you’re halfway over into the lane to your left. Let me move you halfway into the lane to your right.”

Like Trump, Tesla is a poor mans idea of luxury.

They sure as hell have been valuated (?) as one.

Have you been in a real luxury vehicle lately? The Model S has less features than a base model 3 series 😂

Again, it’s one of those things where your priorities differ from mine.

It just goes to show that people have different opinions on what constitutes luxury (who knew, right?).

I’d definitely *not* consider a sub-$40K C-class mercedes a “luxury” vehicle by your definition either. I sat in one of these keeping my son entertained while my wife was SUV shopping — it had cheap hard plastic surfaces in the cabin.  Definitely wasn’t any nicer than a high end Honda Civic.

“Tesla has specs covered pretty well, lots of power and range. Feature wise they are pretty good too, big responsive nav, voice commands, auto-features and memory.”

I own a Tesla and a Lexus.

I wouldn’t mind adaptive cruise control for L.A. traffic.

I said, “in my opinion.” You are free to disagree, but don’t tell me my opinion is wrong.

“Tesla does fit more in line with a luxury brand than it does with a budget brand. Its not perfect, but its where they line up.”

“ Tesla makes luxury vehicles.”

I wish the car market would drop the “luxury” segment and rename it “premium” or “Tier 1" or some such thing. The problem with Luxury is that people immediately invoke that it lacks “smooth Corinthian leather” and is therefore not luxury when the segment is not meant to solely designate that.

I don’t know if “shook” is the correct description. Tesla has a new entrant into their market and they are responding. That’s how markets work.

This study is heavily flawed (which is another point of peer review - to check the methods used, not just the results). California is one of the states that actually has a heck of a lot of infrastructure built out at work places for charging. I was just talking with a co-worker this weekend and she has charged her car…

Did someone say Peak Oil?