[rsync]

"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...

[SpaceX_Tech]

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?

[rsync]

"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.