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Dropping down to the '$35K' market is a whole new set of issues. There will be very little room for the errors that now plague the S. The claimed 215 mile range is just that - claimed. From the side, the 3 looks like a smoothed out Elantra behind the A pillar and a Ford Fusion in front of the A pillar. I might be interested when the 3 is in its 5th year of production - 10 years from now.

 

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Bit of an exaggeration - they're no worse than any of the other vehicle mega-corps and their own subsidy-driven operating models these last few years. Exactly how is Tesla the "worst kind"?

Personally I don't get the greenies/oilies narrative - I'm interested in technology, and in vehicles as a particular technology I rely on daily. The only area anyone is really innovating these days is around electrics, and Tesla are at the forefront. I think it's something to support. If near-zero fuel costs and "insane" acceleration are only for "the greenies" then count me in right there. If there's environmental benefits too, great.

The narrative is watching 276,000 people drink Reverend Musk's Kool-Aid.
"I need to drop a $1000 on the good Reverend Musk otherwise he might not sell me a car." Its laughable. Before I give Tesla $1000 reservation for a non-existent $35K car I might want to at least sit in it.

 

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The hate is strong in this thread.

It seems like a lot of you possibly just scrape headlines and then build unsupported theories about Tesla.

It's ok, in a decade you'll have forgotten how much you hate them, when that technology starts to permeate into the rest of the auto world.

Matter of fact, I bet you'll retell the story about how you where the only forward thinking guy on your block that could see how Tesla was making the right moves!

Maybe you should sell this nonsense on the Camry board.