General vehicle thread

[Irving]

The Tesla is great for just a regular driver like yourself where the car doesn't really need to perform. But considering that the Tesla can't even complete a single lap of Nurburgring and doesn't deliver full power launches below, what 80% battery charge, it's clearly a different car. Tesla is great in that they built something that just scratches the surface of what this new tech can do enough to get everyone's attention long enough to get others involved in the game.

[Jer]

The Tesla is great for just a regular driver like yourself where the car doesn't really need to perform. But considering that the Tesla can't even complete a single lap of Nurburgring and doesn't deliver full power launches below, what 80% battery charge, it's clearly a different car. Tesla is great in that they built something that just scratches the surface of what this new tech can do enough to get everyone's attention long enough to get others involved in the game.

Now you're assuming you know what kind of driver I am and what I look for in a car? This sort of assumptive declarative statement is exactly why I avoid posting in most of these threads. You don't know the first thing about me or my buying motivation and this post proves that. You seem to picture me as some octogenarian who's last car was a Prius which proves you know NOTHING about me. Most who know me well readily assign "gear head" status to me based on my previous collection and my hobby of always wrenching, modifying and repairing them myself. They're even more puzzled by my choice based largely off of some BS they heard or made up in their own head about Tesla that doesn't fit the narrative of someone like me owning one.

Could it be that whatever metric you've measured me against in an effort to judge me w/o knowing anything about me may be wrong or can your delicate ego not handle that sort of thing allowing you to assume you know everything about me w/o actually taking the time to learn anything about me?

You base ALL of your information off of some outdated YouTube video you watched or just some info you heard someone say once that wasn't ever even true. Yeah, you've formed a solid well-informed opinion of Tesla alright. Talking Tesla with you is like talking guns to some anti-gun person who refuses to learn the first thing about them and then produces BS they learned from Hollywood as their reasons and facts. Surely you have some idea how annoying that is and yet here you are... doing the exact same thing but insert "Tesla" instead of "gun".

Nobody I've taken for a ride in my P85D even at 50% or less SoC has questioned the power output. Most squeal like a school girl and the difference between 90% SoC and 50% SoC is like tenths of a second measured. On a car that already does 0-60 in under 3-seconds... don't you think you're over dramatizing that in order to doubt something that you have zero first-hand knowledge of?

Tesla hasn't just scratched the surface, they've taken a buzz saw to the entire industry. Here we are years later and if all they did was scratch the surface why is it that nobody can produce anything that even close to competing in every category in a single car the way Tesla has?