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Surveys where you have very enthusiastic first adopters tend to report well. Car purchases driven by emotion rate very different than do those based on need. He

Surveys where you have very enthusiastic first adopters tend to report well. Car purchases driven by emotion rate very different than do those based on need. Hence buyers of V8 Chargers feel much better about their cars than those who buy Versas. When you have financial freedom to buy what you want you tend to overlook issues. Top that off with the general positive response of hybrid and TDI owners and honesty I was surprised the S didn't get 100. Not saying that it doesn't deserve its high score, but lets be honest, unless it was just Fisker dreadful how could overly enthusiastic early adopters rate it anything short of perfect?

lmg643 13y ago
along the same lines - seems to me that the # of cars, number of buyers - is too low relative to other models to really have an apples-to-apples comparison. the car fires are an interesting wrinkle. i like how people are arguing over the statistics of the number of incidents, fatalities, etc. from one perspective - the entire underside of tesla is a battery pack, which would seem to make it incredibly vulnerable to punctures, scrapes etc. in contrast, gas tanks in modern gas cars are usually buried inside the frame, outside crumple zones, in front of the rear axle. and you know why they are there? hundreds of lawsuits, car fires, fatalities, etc. basically, 40+ years of trial-and-error. (gas tank placement is one of the reasons why the ford pinto is a legendary car.) so - if tesla is able to proceed with the model S batteries exactly as they are ... that would make tesla "miles" ... decades ahead of how the auto industry has traditionally engineered cars. will be interesting to watch for sure.
smackfu 13y ago
Just look at the other top cars: >After the Model S, the Porsche Boxster sports car came in second place with a score of 95. The Porsche 911 sports car and Chevrolet Volt, made by General Motors Co, both got a 91.

lmg643 13y ago

along the same lines - seems to me that the # of cars, number of buyers - is too low relative to other models to really have an apples-to-apples comparison. the car fires are an interesting wrinkle. i like how people are arguing over the statistics of the number of incidents, fatalities, etc. from one perspective - the entire underside of tesla is a battery pack, which would seem to make it incredibly vulnerable to punctures, scrapes etc. in contrast, gas tanks in modern gas cars are usually buried inside the frame, outside crumple zones, in front of the rear axle. and you know why they are there? hundreds of lawsuits, car fires, fatalities, etc. basically, 40+ years of trial-and-error. (gas tank placement is one of the reasons why the ford pinto is a legendary car.) so - if tesla is able to proceed with the model S batteries exactly as they are ... that would make tesla "miles" ... decades ahead of how the auto industry has traditionally engineered cars. will be interesting to watch for sure.

smackfu 13y ago

Just look at the other top cars: >After the Model S, the Porsche Boxster sports car came in second place with a score of 95. The Porsche 911 sports car and Chevrolet Volt, made by General Motors Co, both got a 91.