My car was an inventory car. Already on the lot. Configured as I wanted. Red, white interior, and tow hitch. LR AWD. $48,990 plus $4k for the color and hitch. Then add taxes and fees and suddenly you’re at $60,441. Oof. Most I’ve ever spent on a car.
I bought a MYLRAWD two weeks ago and I configured the exact same car last night and the price came out the same as when I bought. I’m not seeing any $3,000 price cut here in CA.
My only comment is about range… If there’s no other (online) charging within range of where you’re going, and you HAVE to charge to 100% to get to the nearest one, then…
I test drove the I5. It was tempting, but I couldn’t get over the ugliness of the dash. The little plastic buttons. The smaller LCD. The way it’s mounted. I honestly don’t know why people like it, interior-wise. Feels very…Asian? Like in a Chinese video game kind of way. Like a Pokeman car? IDK. Just something about it.
The I6 is very nice. But for me, I’m a bit too tall and it felt confining in the cockpit. But it was tempting. However, I didn’t really consider it, given the local dealers were marking them up $7-10k when I was looking at them a year ago. Pissed me off.
I sold my Bolt EUV Premier, which was a fantastic car, but I wanted something different after driving them for 8 years, and bought a 2023 Model Y Long Range AWD 3 weeks ago. 330 mile range. Awesome in every way except no top-down 360 parking assist - like my $20,000 less Bolt had. And also a much worse cross traffic alert. Really, it’s like driving a 1980 anything, with no serious help for perking. No front bumper camera(!!!). It HAD radar sensors but Tesla took them out to save a few bucks. Aaaarrrrgggghhhh. But… It’s a great car besides that HUGE HUGE HUGE bummer.