Quote:
Originally Posted by PoorLurker
I don't think Tesla makes a model that feels luxurious for the price of the car. ... The tech and other features make up for the "lack of luxury" though.
|
Yeah, and taste amongst generations changes.
I was always a car nut and as a kid my grandpa asked me which car he should buy - for all kinds of technical / value reasons I told him the Honda Accord. He tried it and said it was just too cheap feeling and not luxurious enough so he bought a Buick.
Honda's done pretty well - and to solve their luxury problem they created Acura. (and the others created Infiniti and Lexus)
And
Tesla is small, but they're not THAT small, and they're growing fast - I don't think the haters realize how relatively large Tesla already is:
And that Tesla's growth accounts for the 2010+ uptick in US auto manufacturing share - something we've been losing to the Japanese and Germans - and that will be lost to the Chinese if it were not for Tesla:
Once niche automotive trends emerge, they stick:
* European Luxury (Germans in the 60s)
* Economy cars (Japanese in the 70s)
* Hatchback grocery getters (US in the 80s)
* Minivans (US in the 90s)
* SUVs (US in the 2000s)
* Crossovers (US in the 2010s)
* Electric (Globally in the 2020s)