Probably the best line I have read in any article this month:
I drove back and forth to a bookstore job in an ancient Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais so apocalyptically derelict that when I got pulled over for a busted taillight, the lady cop fixed me with sad eyes and asked "Is everything OK with you?"
This is a spam blog. The real report is here:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
Brutal op-ed
The bloom was off the rose pretty early with people that know about cars. I remember seeing a video of an engineering team disassembling one a few years after they launched and finding all sorts of crazy assembly problems that you’d think would have been worked out by then. I’m talking about bad welds, some not in the correct place, and random bolts rattling around in door panels, that kind of stuff. I give them credit for capturing the collective imagination on what an electric car could be and championing them as cool. But they still have a lot of work to do to catch up in the quality and reliability realm compared to established car companies. The fact that they have significantly less moving parts yet still haven’t been shown to be more reliable than a lot of ICE vehicles says something.
IDK, even since Fight Club we know that cars have defects that kill people and the car companies send Edward Norton to check if it's cheaper to pay to the victims or go to court. This is nothing new. I wouldn't get to worked up about it until I've seen some statistics saying that for example Tesla drivers get into more accidents than other drivers or something. O, wait...
Fuck me, that’s good blogging!
Seems more like a hit piece on tesla than an article describing actual issues that have statistics associated with it.
What amazes me is this is a luxury brand of car, which should have a higher quality of part. And its built like a badly assembled kit car.
“I’m just gonna make a car out of cardboard box cuz I refuse to be told how to do it by a b-b-b-BOOOMER!”
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