Curious where you’re at, since here in colorado the model 3 is significantly cheaper.

Because it’s primarily a US website, and the majority of posters are still based in the United States.

Most car questions are region specific; someone asking “why aren’t there more affordable options except the Model 3” is almost certainly American focused as the question is invalid anywhere else - the context tells us that. If they were in Europe the answer is “there are a ton priced the same” and from my understanding, in China it’s one of the more expensive ones. Given those are the primarily the places asking questions like this, logic says…

In other words - the OP is invalid most other places where BYD and some of the other oddball brands sell, so by basic deduction we can safely assume American. If we try to assume global answers for everything, without using deduction, we wouldn’t be able to answer questions much at all - they’d all be “it depends”.

Buy them an iMac 😂

In all reality - if you can drop in an SSD and find more ram. That’s what it will need

Do we have any idea the specs on that system?

Maybe so. But I live in the world I live in, not the one I’d wish to live in.

Here the Model 3 is about 10-15k cheaper than the Koreans, and 20k cheaper than the I4 (which generally doesn’t qualify for any incentives). Haven’t looked much at the polestar - various reasons there.

I’ll point out the Model 3 LR is AWD, while the cheaper base I6 is not - once you add AWD to it they’re the same price, but the Ionia requires the lease loophole for incentives and may not work in every state sanely (double taxed). After that it’s not hard to quickly add options to the 6 for better equipment that makes it even more.

In my current shopping I have the 6 noted as about 10k more than the model 3.

Ehhhh. Better equipped it ends up being quite a bit more, and isn’t eligible for the federal tax incentive unless you play the lease game which doesn’t work sanely in all states.

1. No app. Just web required
2. No user management - that’s handled by someone else (Plex)
3. Stupid simple (app for everything) so end users (family) don’t have to… figure it out. Thus fewer IT tickets for me.
4. Just works.