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To: logi_cal869
That's kind of a cheap shot by Consumer Reports.

Tesla sent somebody over to fix the car right away and they aren't even done reviewing the car yet.

But they just couldn't resist taking the opportunity to be all catty and snotty about it.

9 posted on 05/18/2015 1:46:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

The failure was small, but because of over-engineering, the result was catastrophic: the complete inability to use the car. I’d hate to have someone from Tesla have to come running over some night when I’m heading out to my car in an empty parking lot. OTOH, this fault has little to do with Tesla’s core technology and much to do with the way it has gained financing: rather than target the low-end of the car market, it went for the ultra-high end, and therefore felt obliged to put a whole bunch of bells and whistles that are almost inevitable over-engineered.

Worse car I ever drove was my wife’s (then-girlfriend’s) VW. They thought they were cute to over-engineer every element of the car, and wound up with a bunch of horrible defects, from an electrical wire which ran past the bizarrely placed ash tray (in the back seat, where usually the kids sit), and pulled out any time any kid played with the ash tray... to a headlight that blew every 200 miles, and required a preposterous amount of disassembly to reach... to a button for emergency flashers that worked fine if you could find it on the ceiling.


12 posted on 05/18/2015 2:04:51 PM PDT by dangus
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To: SamAdams76

They sent someone over the next morning.


14 posted on 05/18/2015 2:37:36 PM PDT by SuperSonic (If I had a dog it would look like the one Obama ate!)
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