The compact luxury sedan market is an interesting space. At least in the States, bigger has always been seen as better, with many buyers wanting a bigger vehicle. At the extreme, luxury buyers have migrated to SUVs, buying expensive barges like the Cadillac Escalade. If you aren’t convinced of this, … [continued]
I generally eschew conspiracy theories under the rubric that little explained by conspiracy cannot as well be explained by incompetence and that the occurrence of stupid is vastly more common than the occurrence of evil in the hearts and minds of men.
Why is the Tesla Model S Motor Trend’s Ultimate Car of the Year? Elon Musk explains.
There are a lot of anonymous and a few non-anonymous anti-Tesla trolls on the internet. Whether they are connected to the oil industry, work for traditional auto companies, or simply picked up an odd prejudice against clean electric cars, they seem to be obsessed with Tesla articles, to the point that they have to comment on hundreds of those articles despite not liking the company. One of the favorite tools of the Tesla smear is calling people who recognize the benefits of Tesla vehicles “fanboys” (often with the implication that they’re idiots and have no good reason to be “fanboys”).
I was so glad to see this Motor Trend comparison of the top 3 sport sedans you can buy for around $50,000, and to see that it included the Tesla Model 3, I’m tired of reading reviews comparing the Model 3 to other electric cars. Everyone knows where it stands compared to other electric cars (it beats them for the most part, unless you have special requirements, like you need an SUV), but as well as Tesla has sold car over the last year, there are still places where people have no idea about Tesla or any electric car.
Well, Motor Trend’s fairly early and outspoken love for the Tesla Model S certainly hasn’t hurt its Tesla test drive opportunities. The mainstream auto magazine got yet another super exclusive opportunity to test out the Model 3, this time 36 hours before the final reveal last night.
As he tends to do, Elon Musk went on a Twitter rampage, responding to questions from the Twittersphere. In doing so and as he’s also in the habit of doing, he shed light on some rather interesting details about the Model S and X battery size, Model 3 battery size as limited by the physical footprint of the vehicle and a few tips on stripping down a Tesla for maximum performance.
The 2017 Tesla Model S P100D accelerated from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just 2.275507139 seconds while being put through the paces recently by the auto junkies over at Motor Trend.
As many of this reading this may have already heard, the Chevy Bolt EV has been chosen as the 2017 Motor Trend Car of the Year. An interesting choice, and as the article accompanying the announcement shows, one based on enthusiasm the testers/judges had for the model.
Tesla’s Autopilot is in the news these days with the tragic death of a Tesla owner while Autopilot was in use. However, there are at least five competitors with technology that they assert works similarly to Autopilot, many of whom have been on the roads longer than Tesla’s offering. Why hasn’t … [continued]
