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Consumer Reports is not an organization I very much trust, having been known to play politics with products but this is really unprecedented
Elon Musk's vision for the future of American manufacturing prowess ought to start and end with his perspective in design, products and production
His cars are not for everyone but certainly will have people think about his products in a way to reflect the possibility of an American resurgence when Jan 2017 rolls around
Actually, it did better than that, scoring 103 points in a scoring system that, “by definition,” doesn’t go past 100.
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I have an amplifier that goes to 11.
It’s also louder than the Model S, less opulent than other luxury vehicles, and too expensive for most of us, with a price tag of $127,820.
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It’s a bargain compared to other exotics, though.
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Elon Musk’s vision for the future of American manufacturing prowess ought to start and end with his perspective in design, products and production
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He’s smart, driven, loves America, and, like Reagan, believes the future should be better than the past. Not bad for an African-American.
They didn't build that car. Barry, Criminal in Chief
Lets see.
Way overpriced. Check.
Government subsidized. Check.
Yea! A perfect score!
And Tesla is losing $4K on each car sold.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2015/08/10/tesla-losing-tidy-sum-per-model-s-sold-report-claims/
Black lives matter!
I certainly have the means to buy one...just don’t have the ego to match it. To put it differently, I need a car that’s PRACTICAL to drive (i.e., lots of gas stations to choose from), rather than a near-useless object to try to one-up my friends with. So I’ll stick to Honda/Toyota’s, thank you.
But I do realize that people buy cars for other reasons.
Tesla, like Apple, has a HUGE marketing and sales department. Their engineering, not so much.
Musk predicts the technology for self driving cars will be available in two or three years anyway so might as well hold off for that.
There are several tooling around here. Gorgeous car.
It’s range that is the big negative.
Either up the range by 2.5 times or a 5 minute recharge, similar to filling with gas.
I have a friend that can’t drive his Tesla to the beach from Raleigh, approx 140 mi.
Not enough range to get back and questionable as to charging there.
Again these idiots get it wrong. It isn't range that is the problem it is long recharge times. 200 mile range is fine if it only takes five minutes to recharge.
Apparently the people rating that car used to work at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tesla is a government subsidized turd. It is a nothing in terms of auto sales. It loses money on every car. And every automotive and business outlet in the news media praises it.
On a cold winter night the only heating and defrost functions come from electric heating elements. The range will be greatly restricted.
Other than that, it is a great car.
I no longer believe a word Consumer Reports says. For the last 20 years they’ve morphed into nothing but yet another “Progressive” mouth-piece, just like Scientific American and all the rest. Pretty much everything Consumer Reports prints is significantly biased.
I don’t even use them for car-buying advice, which has become ridiculously useless.
The latest versions of these books are the best car buying advice out there:
And if I want buying advice on anything else, I go to where the pros go, for example, anything lawn related go to
where you can get full discussions by the pros on pretty nearly everything lawn related, including repair advice.
Consumer Reports’ advice model is obsolete and its time has long passed by, and quite frankly, I can’t understand how they’ve managed to still stay in business. I assume that most of their subscriptions are from people who are slowly dying off and the rest are from the same kind of people who use Angie’s List.
Nigel Tufnel
..these go to eleven...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
Well I happen to love emerging technology and kudos to those who are out there pushing the envelope to make our lives even better. Sure, this Elon Musk might be using government money to devise his new inventions (from electric cars to solar panels to rocket ships) but I say good for him. Much better use of our taxpayer dollars than handing it over to a bunch of sad sacks on welfare who sit on their ratty couches all day watching television and playing Candy Crush on Facebook, don't you think?
If we eliminated our welfare program tomorrow and invested all that money with entrepreneurs, having been vetted by other entrepreneurs in the private sector in Shark Tank fashion, we would supercharge this economy and put everybody back to work in short order.
That's what I say.
Now I'm not ready to buy one of these electric cars yet. But I'm glad we have people like Elon Musk working out the kinks and making the necessary improvements. I'm pretty sure that before my life is over on this planet, I will have driven one of these Tesla automobiles and I will be the better for it.
FMCDH(BITS)