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by SpaceX_Tech 3709 days ago
Thanks for responding, you make some good points regarding the i3 looking like an electric car while the model S just looks like a normal car. The i3, along with maybe the Volt, are still for me the first cars to get the "electric car" look right. Slightly quirky but nothing comical like the earlier attempts, although I can see why not everyone likes this look.

I grew up in SF and still visit family a couple times a year and I'm always surprised that I don't see very many Tesla's in SF, at least in my area west of Twin Peaks. I've seen more i3's, I wonder if the smaller size is more attractive to SF residents. Meanwhile, whenever I spend time in Manhattan Beach I can barely cross the street without almost getting run over by a model S.
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rsync 3709 days ago
"I grew up in SF and still visit family a couple times a year and I'm always surprised that I don't see very many Tesla's in SF, at least in my area west of Twin Peaks."

I live in Marin and it is tesla-city here. Everyone has a model S. There are intersections where multiples pull up at the same time.

I've also seen 8-10 model X cars in the last week or so.

Unrelated: the other "it" car in Marin seems to be a diesel powered BMW X5 or diesel porsche cayenne, which is just baffling to me. Why anyone would want to visually "see" a brand new modern car, but aurally "hear" a badly maintained lawnmower is beyond me.

You'd think these rich marin moms would be more discerning, but what do I know...

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SpaceX_Tech 3709 days ago
I can imagine they are very popular in Marin and the peninsula. Surprisingly I've only seen one model X so far here in LA.

I didn't realize these modern diesels still sound terrible, are they really that bad?

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rsync 3708 days ago
"I didn't realize these modern diesels still sound terrible, are they really that bad?"

You know the somewhat recent Jetta TDI (2.0 ? 1.8 ?) that's really, really loud ? They're not quite that bad. But they're loud, and the loud they make is an antique loud. A non-precision loud. Noises that nice new luxury cars shouldn't make.

I am in europe regularly for rsync.net and the diesel A6 and A8 (among others) are not any better.

It's really just a terrible aesthetic. I don't know why people put up with it.

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