This is purely anecdotal, but there are a lot of forum posts about serious failures and legitimate problems happening to Teslas, not just quality. But, there are also a shitton of Teslas out there, and lots of new cars seem to be full of gremlins, so it’s really hard to say - according to this survey they stack up pretty well.

Just look at this: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/forums/service-maintenance.366/

Im all for avant-garde design. please, make crazy stuff. But that doesn’t mean that anything crazy is also good. I didn’t love the concept but the production candidate CT just looks “off,” the proportions are weird. Something about the size of the wheel wells and the snub nose compared to the body makes it look very awkward. And simple can be really striking, but the CT just looks like a clumsy triangle and not badass to me.

But from a styling standpoint I will give it a fair shake when I see one in person.

There are plenty of mechanical things that can break or lead to recall, but this would enrage me if it were my car. I spend my working life on a computer, and I’m not a technophobe, but I think I see cars partially as an escape from computer BS. I’ve seen fans of various car companies complain about regressions, losing or degrading features that used to work. And having to learn about infotainment/feature error codes, glitches, code branches etc. just feels like a dystopian nightmare - I know I’ll eventually have to deal w/ it b/c in 20 years even old used cars will be like this.

I know that mechanical stuff goes wrong, and that pisses me off too, but at least then there is some chance that you can fix it, learn something, and have some degree of control. whereas with this, some idiot halfway across the country bricked your car by pushing the wrong “security certificates.” You as a consumer are basically helpless and it kinda feels like you don’t even really own your car…