Android users to phone manufacturers: “Et tu, Brute?”
Weird take. Love my VW ID.7 - coming from a Tesla Model 3. They’ve copied the parts Tesla did well and kept all the traditional “car things” Tesla sucked at.
Yeah it looks like a Tesla Model S. That’s how aerodynamics work.
the ID7 looks nothing at all like a Tesla, imo.
It looks like the designers of the Camry decided to make their own version of the Taurus SHO.Yes, that’s nothing like any Tesla. It’s gigantic and blunt, not streamlined in any way. Mostly really looks like a Passat. Which is not bad, since at least it looks like a car unlike all the mammoths coming out these days.
I hate how much car interiors have moved to touchscreen everything. I don’t want to use voice control, and if there’s not a physical button or knob I can use by feel then I have to look at the screen and away from the road. That’s dangerous! I much prefer being able to reach without looking to adjust the temperature or volume or whatever. To me touchscreens are a step backwards and I don’t want to buy a car that uses too much of them.
RJ Scaringe is copying Tesla too much. And all the dumb things too:
- Giant tablet on the dash
- No physical buttons
- No Android Auto or Apple Car play
- Giant glass roof
- Proprietary everything
I will never not buy a car without android auto or carplay. At this point, omission is malfeasance.
Fuck them
My Solterra may be the most anti-tesla EV around. It more or less looks like any other Subaru
Can I ask how you like your Solterra?
Love it. Charging kinda sucks but I have a second car if that is going to be a problem. I have a lead foot and I love how much jam it has out of the hole. One thing that people don’t seem to talk about is how awesome dual motor all wheel drive is. The Subaru gets both motors going almost all the time. I’m actually glad I didn’t get a 400HP EV, as I would be roasting tires off left and right.
It doesn’t really have anything weird that a gas car doesn’t as far as creature comforts. The interior looks a little different, but has the normal buttons and screen integrated in the dash. It behaves by default like a normal car too. If you let off the brakes it will creep by default. Regen braking and one-pedal are off by default too.
It’s not perfect but most of the issues people complain about (aside from range and charge time) are not major.
It’s really nice how nicely electric torque in general works in cars. Even really weak sounding ev is usually comfortable in common traffic. Where the power becomes limiting is accelerating on highways or such. Daily drive mostly just takes some torque. We’re just so used to thinking small engines are annoying, but that’s just an ICE problem, like idling and direction changes and waste heat output.
Which is an interesting thing to say because it’s a Toyota with a Subaru badge on it.
In the same way that a Dodge Stealth and a Mitsubishi 3000GT are the same car. Common platform, kitted out differently. The Lexus is the same platform too. Fun fact: The Saab 9-2x is a WRX in disguise!
It’s less that it’s common platform and more that it’s literally Toyota designed and built in Toyota factories.
Similarly, the Toyota GR86 is a Subaru with a Toyota badge. It’s built on a Subaru platform out of Subaru parts and every single one of them is built in a Subaru factory in Gunma, Japan. Toyota had more design input into the twins, but it’d still be amusing for someone to comment that the 86 “looks like any other Toyota” because the thing is a Subaru parts bin car.
