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Spoken like someone who doesnt have one and never drove a German car before. I have switched from BMW (and I drove a lot of them, my dad used to sell them).
by mgoetzke 2y ago
Spoken like someone who doesnt have one and never drove a German car before. I have switched from BMW (and I drove a lot of them, my dad used to sell them).
- earthnail 2y agoDon’t know why this is being downvoted. I really wanted to get a BMW. The total price itself was no issue for me at all, but I just couldn’t justify paying a premium for a car that in parts feels bad. The software stack is horrible. Got a Skoda instead. Its software is also horrible but at least it was a bargain.
- littlestymaar 2y agoSoftware being bad in a car is not nice, but it's not as bad as having reliability issue on the car pieces itself, like Tesla has.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoTesla consistently ranks middle of the pack in unbiased reliability rankings. Given that an electric car has ~10% of the moving parts as an ICE, middle of the pack is pretty bad, but from a customer perspective middle of the pack isn't bad.
- littlestymaar 2y agoIt's not middle of the pack in price either. I remember seeing this survey where Telsa was right next to Dacia in terms of reliability despite the very different price tag.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoI'm in North America, so the Model 3 is one of the cheapest available EV's. No Dacia, no Chinese EV's. AFAICT, only the Leaf & Equinox are cheaper.
- giva 2y agoAs long as it supports Android auto/car play and has physical control for important stuff, I (and most people I know) don't care about software. It will be obsolete in a few years anyway.
- rsynnott 2y agoNote that that is also, for all intents and purposes, a German car.
- h0l0cube 2y agoAll ICEs are Rube Goldberg machines, especially the high-performance brands. It's a miracle of engineering that they run at all.
- illiac786 2y agoSo many miracles… seems statistically improbable no?
- h0l0cube 2y agoICEs do need far more servicing to stay safe and functional on the road vs an electric, and this is doubly true for high performance vehicles. They have a precision machined block of metal, creating hundreds of explosions per second, lubricated and liquid cooled by hoses that degrade and slip with the vibration, using turbos and superchargers to milk out performance, exhausting gases, driving a multigeared transmission, synchronised by perishable belts, with gaskets and sealants holding the shuddering mess all together. Miracles, all of them.