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I have a Model 3 after maybe 7-8 new Beemers and Lexuses over the years. The Model 3 is easily my favorite car. Everything else seems like a heavy, belching din

I have a Model 3 after maybe 7-8 new Beemers and Lexuses over the years. The Model 3 is easily my favorite car. Everything else seems like a heavy, belching dinosaur. I don't say that so much from an eco POV, as the lightness of touch of stomping on the pedal with no noise, instant acceleration, no gear changes, just an unrelenting push back into your seat - it's just "lighter" and effortless. (I know it weighs a lot, that's not my point) The software glitches are a nuisance at times, but how many OS releases behind do you keep your phone and PCs?

oneplane 5y ago
You drive a beamer? That seems odd (image search it). Perhaps it's that thing there the local language mistranslates something. Regarding the 'everything else seems heavy'-feeling: that is exactly what it feels like to me as well. Not in some absolute term of 'therefore it is bad' but the difference is quite present. With a lot of cars it seems like driving it is an effort, and it is presented as being an effort and almost praised as a universally positive property of the car. At the same time it's very weird to see the polarisation within the world of car users as if you can't have both. If I were to drive to get some job done, I really don't want to drive 'with effort' or have a car that 'shows some effort'. I want to get from A to B and do the thing I wanted to do, not 'work the car'. That is a strange realisation when you drive a lot of previous-generation cars and don't have an issue with that right up until the moment you get the ease of an EV that just 'does the thing'.