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I wonder what the handling will be like. Teslas on the track have had over heating issues, and cornering performance has been just average at best. Not every e
by tdiggity 9y ago
I wonder what the handling will be like. Teslas on the track have had over heating issues, and cornering performance has been just average at best.
Not every exotic car owner (Ferrari, Lambo, Mclaren) brings their car to the track, but I feel like a good % do. When you own a 200k car, you don't drive it to the grocery store because it attracts too much attention, and you worry something bad will happen to it.
Edit: For more clarification on the grocery getter comment: As an owner of an older exotic car, I've seen that most do not drive their exotics that much. 1-5k miles max/year. The cheapest insurance policies won't let you drive it to any public parking lots. And policies from the normal companies will cost $3-8k in large metropolitan areas for 40-50 year olds. So where do you go? You make excuses to drive it. Cruise to a friends house, drive in the mountains, or to the track if you have time. Daily errands are for your other car. Why risk it. Elon's a pretty good showman, and he makes me feel like I could do anything with this car! But, alas, 200k, I want it to be perfect forever. Even used in 5 years @ 130-150k.
- smitherfield 9y ago> But, alas, 200k, I want it to be perfect forever. Even used in 5 years @ 130-150k. The good/bad thing about electric cars is that they're sort of like computers right now (they're getting twice as good every 1-2 years), so I expect they'll depreciate more along the lines of used smartphones than (the existing market in) used cars.
- Already__Taken 9y agoSomething like this I bet the value evaporates just like the manufacture warranty on the battery.