[adventured]

It's an extremely bad design if they're sticking with it. When I first saw that with the initial promos they did, I assumed the monitor was a temporary stand-in because of how bad of an approach it was. In my opinion, people are not going to like having a large, stand-out, awkwardly placed computer monitor as the sole instrument panel. Even worse is how ugly the concept is, that it's not integrated into the design of the console / center panel area. It's jarring, out of place and requires your eyes leave the road to a much greater extent just to check basic readouts. Even now I find it hard to believe Tesla could make such an obviously bad decision, surely it's still an older test example.

The car itself already borders on ugly. The Model S is a much better looking and well designed vehicle. Throw in the monitor mistake and I wouldn't pay $20,000 for the Model 3. I'd rather wait and see what the European competitors come up with, and or wait and see if Tesla builds a better follow-on version.

The Model 3 will dramatically underwhelm on sales. Tesla will miss Musk's infamous initial sales target by a minimum of 50%.

[nixarn]

I love it and will buy it. Had the speedometer in the middle of the car on my Toyota Yaris and never had any problems with it. Lots of people wanted more buttons when the first iPhone came, but then all of that changed. Also, I think the car is beautiful but, but of course the Model S is the premium option, but it also cost 2x.

I think the Model 3 will sale crazy well.

[illegalsmile]

I think people are getting hung up on the speedometer for little reason other than it's a departure from the usual placement of the cluster. In traffic you go with the flow. With little traffic you might keep an eye on the speed but most of the times it's in an area you know so you have a good idea of what speed you need to be driving at. On the highway you set the cruise control. With Tesla eventually having fully automated driving the speedometer won't matter at all.