Benoit

Probably a nice car, don't know, we are months away to see them on the road. Whatever, the only car that could interest me away from ICE would be this one :


... and only if Honda manages to get this initial design right to the stores. A Toyota Supra-ish readaptation of those line will not do it for me.

BippuLexus

Congrats on the Model 3. Whatever makes the wife happy, right?

Personally - I wouldn't get a Tesla Model 3 because I will never like the interior... I just can't like the interior at all - especially since the car cost so much with options. However - I do think EV is the future. The only way I will get my oil *** out of a ICE car is when the Audi E-Tron GT comes out.

rominl

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in my case it is my daily. 50 miles a day and with traffic power isn't really my priority

yes, same here. but after a week or so i got used to it and not a problem anymore. still, the doors don't have the solid feel of mb or bmw and it does take more force to close

thought about doing ceramic (mainly so car wash is easier for me) but after couple weeks of driving? meh i think i gave up.

thanks! haha i got black. i refuse to pay the extra for those colors which i think are nothing special.

yup the gs was a lease and it's coming up in feb, so i cut it short and traded it in. previous two gs were both just daily for me so can't say i had much connections with them haha

thanks man!

bagwell

here's another model 3 buying experience...

spwolf

congrats and enjoy your car!

bitkahuna

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LeX2K

Very strong brand recognition plus when you think of an electric Tesla is about the only car that comes to mind. Also Tesla spends $0.00 on advertising.

mmarshall

That's because they're spending so much on the company-owned dealerships that would, with most automakers, be run by private franchises.

bitkahuna

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there's so much fail in that explanation

mmarshall

No...with all due respect, your statement is incorrect. While I could have phrased my statement better, and it obviously does not explain all of the reasons Tesla does not spend money on advertising (in fact, there are many), it is a fact that Tesla does spend a lot on dealer facilities that are normally run by private-franchise money. That's not me, or my fail......that is simply the way they operate.

LeX2K

Tesla doesn't advertise because they don't need to.

bitkahuna

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if you had phrased it better and added more reasons, it might not have been as much of a fail, but you didn't, so it was. plus you were definitive, stating only one reason as to why they can't afford to spend on advertising. but even with more reasons though, you'd be completely wrong because tesla doesn't need to spend money on advertising. this article explains it:
https://adage.com/article/cmo-strate...tising/310008/

there's no need to advertise if demand so far outstrips your ability to supply... now that they've caught up a lot with the '3', they'll likely do something, but i'd expect it to continue to be unconventional, like youtube videos, social media, not wasteful tv and print ads.

also about dealer franchises - they can only do what they do through profits of selling cars, not out of the goodness of their heart, and that profit is revenue traditional car makers don't get, so because tesla gets the WHOLE PIE when selling instead of a piece of it, they can afford to make their own showrooms, but the economic models are different beyond that, with tesla investing in a charging network which customers pay to use, a model traditional car makers simply don't have... so there's so many differences.

KahnBB6

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^^ I LOVE the driver-centric Honda EV Sport concept. I so wish the coupe version would be put into production as-is. Seems like Honda could if they wanted to.

-J-P-L-

True. They are almost synonymous with electric cars right now regardless of all the other offerings. The internet itself is all the exposure and word of mouth they need.

One observation about the current Model 3 situation is the oddity that that inventory is piling up but they still can't build the $35K model that the masses are waiting for. Yes, it's because Tesla would actually lose money on these, but how long can they go along just building these overpriced ones. The idea that you can spend $80K on a compact-midsize sedan is nuts, although most are around $50-60K. I do find the 3 compelling but not for more than $35K.

SW17LS

He's right. The fail is your totally unsubstantiated claim that Tesla does not spend money to advertise because they don't have franchise dealerships. You have ZERO reason to make a statement like that, you have no knowledge of Tesla's finances, operating profit, etc. You talk like you do, but you don't.

Tesla doesn't advertise because they don't have to. Anybody who might purchase a Tesla knows what Tesla is and their selling proposition to that consumer is so strong, they don't need advertising to reach that consumer. The proof is in the sales numbers, they sell all the Teslas they can make.

As for the statement that Tesla has LESS money available because they don't have a franchise dealer chain makes no sense whatsoever. Having another person in the chain of profit reduces profit for the end recipient, doesn't increase profit. The car gets sold to the consumer in the end, logically if there's no dealer and franchisee to take a portion of the profit from the sale of that car, the manufacturer makes more profit. Yes there are costs Tesla has in selling the car that would be absorbed by a franchisee, but if those costs were higher than the profit available, nobody would buy car dealership franchises in the first place.