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Originally Posted by openwheelracing
Quite the contrary, most of us don't care about Musk or saving the planet. Just engineers appreciating good engineering, car guys appreciating good driving cars. I do see a lot of negative press and hatred against Tesla and too many people with STRONG opinion rooting for Tesla to fail. Focusing on their poor customer service and "weird" buying experience.
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Model 3 and Tesla in general are not well built cars, as Tesla the company builds on SV techs like OTA updates, auto pilots, FSD, but ignores fundamentals like body-in-white and quality. With the backbone is not built right none of the flashy tech can solve that.
E.g. as your post said Model 3 is few hundred pounds overweight(say, 300?).
Fom an engineering perspective how can that be good, given that extra 300 pounds slow down the car?
And how does building a simple wheel well with 8-9 pieces welded together (instead of one piece as other automakers do) help with weight and strength?
Most engineer friends are turned off by those details, but my guess is the car enthusiasts are so mesmerized by instant torques that basic engineering sense is left behind.