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I am of the opinion they will keep pushing base models off as they do not want to make them. What I do not understand is how they let defective cars get into th

I am of the opinion they will keep pushing base models off as they do not want to make them. What I do not understand is how they let defective cars get into the hands of some press people. I have seen more than one newspaper review that highlighted all sorts of issues. do they think they are still immune? 300-400k people money down sounds awesome until your realize the big auto makers usually have more than one line that does that per year. I still think the really bad bet was not having the in depth prototyping that they openly mocked that other manufacturers have just to prevent such assembly line issues

gutnor 9y ago
> What I do not understand is how they let defective cars get into the hands of some press people. That is something that puzzles me too. However, since I have been in the market for a car recently, it seems that it happens regularly to all the brands. Some reviewer even mention the fact the car is early production model and has some quirks that will be fixed later. In any case, car reviews before a car reaches general availability are highly biased anyway. There is a press package that comes with the car and you can clearly ear the same words used in every review. And then they fly reviewer over to a special testing location, put them in nice hotel, feed them well and the actual "test" looks like a corporate team building event. (youtuber are now invited too, which lead to a lot a video behind the scene of those events)