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I'm not sure what the author is getting at but I think the Model X is a mistake- mostly only because of the falcon doors. 1. It is too ostentatious for most pe
by vadym909 11y ago
I'm not sure what the author is getting at but I think the Model X is a mistake- mostly only because of the falcon doors.
1. It is too ostentatious for most people - especially in its biggest market- the bay area. You can hide a gold iphone or Rolex watch but you can't hide when you open the falcon door while dropping off your kids to school.
2. The door also drastically reduces the headroom for the 2nd row and it feels like a Nascar racing car with all kinds of bracing in the back. About making it easy to get into the 3rd row is not really true. It is no different than any 3 row SUVs. The tall fixed headrests also limit visibility in the back rows.
3. I think Elon is a pragmatist and if he decides to change the falcon doors to regular doors, I think the ModelX will trump Acura MDX and BMWX5 in Sales very easily. Everything else in the ModelX just blows everyone else out of the water.
- gozur88 11y ago>It is too ostentatious for most people - especially in its biggest market- the bay area. You can hide a gold iphone or Rolex watch but you can't hide when you open the falcon door while dropping off your kids to school. For a lot of people the whole point of paying $130k for a car is that other people know you can pay $130k for a car. Also, is the SF bay area really Tesla's biggest market? There aren't that many people in SF compared to, say, Los Angeles.
- dtparr 11y agoHmm, now I'm curious what the heat map for, say, > $100k cars looks like, though I'm guessing perhaps something like: https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/ Maybe what I really want is 100k cars per capita?
- njharman 11y agoIf you think ostentatious is a problem in the luxury market you don't know the luxury market. Also why do you imagine bay area is X or Tesla's biggest market?