Inspired by all the other tesla deals. Unfortunately not much of a bargain compared to the Model Y deal but $1000 off is $1000 off 🤯. First price cut since September 2023
Only on the LR model. Before ORC and after delivery/order fee.
Tesla Model 3 LR $72,700 Delivered (Was $73,700) + On-Road Cost @ Tesla
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How is the type of car relevant to their driving ability? If they weren't driving a Tesla, they'd just be driving another car just as badly?
@kiriakoz: Not a Tesla or EV driver but sounds like your pursuit of not being "mainstream" is resulting in you barking up the wrong tree.
@thestig: I'm just giving my opinions based on my observations and experience, happy to hear others too.
@kiriakoz: What do you drive? and in your opinion what type of driver drives that model? Just curious
@Tazzaaa: Oh is that how it is?
I have a Mazda 3 which is over 10 years old. At the time, I was early into my home loan and it seemed to be the best car for the price based on specs and test drives. I am now in the market for a decent car in roughly this price range, having paid off my home loan.
I don't think Mazda 3 drivers have an overriding trait because it's a pretty cheap and mainstream car. Feel free to make an sweeping generalisations about me or Mazda 3 drivers should you wish, I'll try not to get as emotional as Tesla drivers about it.
@kiriakoz: Yeah nah every Mazda 3 or CX5 I see is driven by some 20-45 year old women most likely to be updating snapshot rather then watching the road
@kiriakoz: Im a Tesla driver and i dont give a rats backside what jealous people think. Car is pretty damn good, and my driving skills are near impeccable and when their not, the Tesla corrects it, so, win win.
@BatmanAU: Just go to a petrol station and shout out the window, enjoy 2 bucks a litre suckers!! Lol
@kungfuman: I did read that NRMA has advised the same as you mentioned, $3 per litre and will never fall back under, WOW
@kiriakoz: omg mazda 3 drivers are awful!! we have a group chat where we send pics of all the mazda 3s we seem to be constantly stuck behind or killed by lol worse than nissan micra drivers honestly.
@kiriakoz: may be confirmation bias..
if I seek to observe A,
I'll not properly log observations of B.but run a test pls..
i'd be interested in the results.like the mark rober test:
out of 1000 drivers, 6% would intentionally run over animals.
(and perhaps many more just didn't notice the animal in time)90% of the animals killers were SUV/Ute drivers..
maybe that says something about large vehicle drivers..
perhaps large vehicles just had a much larger representation.
@thestig: in EVs tesla are quite common, i live in inner city and i guess if you pay $1.5M for a house $70k for a car is no big deal, see lots of mercs and porsche SUV also. If i had the spare money or had to drive to work every day i would buy a tesla and charge at home.
@DevlicK: I bought BMW for the safety features, not many cars had 7 airbags at the time and rear wheel drive.
Maybe certain brands of car attract certain types of people. Ever thought of that?
Not sure why you got modded down for this because it's definitely an observable phenomenon.
It used to be Volvo drivers because back when every other car manufacturer was advertising performance, Volvo's marketing was all about safety. So it attracted the cautious drivers who always drive way too slowly.
I always look out for Teslas at the lights to see the legendary acceleration in action but 99% of drivers I see drive like old grannys. They either have no idea how to drive, or are really worried about range so drive like grannies.
Unlike say tradies in crusty old utes who are always hooning everywhere they go@1st-Amendment: lmao.
I own a model 3 performance. Yeah it's quick, but I save it for an appropriate time and not at traffic lights in traffic like a (profanity) like your tradies in utes example.
but I save it for an appropriate time
So granny then :)
not at traffic lights in traffic
If you are the front of the lights there is no traffic, the road ahead usually has a huge gap ahead, hence the best time to give it the boot. But I'm yet to see any Tesla do this even once. Why is that? Utes do it, Bikes do it, Turbo4's do it, V8's do it. But Teslas, despite being one of the quickest cars on the road never do it. I have a bike so lane filter to the front of every red light, so I experience this frequently, just never with Teslas. Not once.
So my observation from my experience is that Tesla attracts useless/cautious/range anxiety types, just like Volvo used to back in the day.
@1st-Amendment: i take mine to racetracks or deserted twisty country roads thats where I do it. not in built up areas where there is more chance of someone pulling out in front of you or a kid running on the road etc.
In all seriousness it's 0-100 in 3 secs, I'm not going to boot it at the traffic lights just to look like a hero and accelerate for like 1-2 secs up to 60/80 or whatever the zone is.
In all seriousness it's 0-100 in 3 secs
Sports bikes have been able to do this for decades so it's not new.
I'm not going to boot it at the traffic lights just to look like a hero and accelerate for like 1-2 secs up to 60/80 or whatever the zone is.
Which is fine, everyone is different. I'm just calling out the pattern that ALL Teslas I've seen exhibit similar cautious behaviour. So the original claim from kiriakoz that certain brands attract certain types of people seems to ring true.
@kiriakoz: I’m just going to say it. Camry drivers are some of the worst on Sydney roads these days
@kungfuman: I mean that one is easier to work out. Anyone who buys a car that wide and drives it on suburban streets is a tell tale sign.
Long time watcher of Dashcams Australiai don't recall seeing any Tesla owners cutting off people or failing to give way in a roundabout, I'm sure there are some but I don't recall any.
Also a long time watcher of Dashcams Australia but I understand the difference between watching a youtube clip as entertainment vs taking the content within the video as a generalisation or reflection of reality.
Just because you haven't seen any on the Youtube Channel doesn't mean anything. I haven't seen many sports cars getting into accidents on the channel so by your logic, they probably don't hoon and get into accidents at all.
@DevlicK: The thread-OP generalizes saying Telsa drivers that he sees, can't use a roundabout.
Felix is responds with his own generalization. which responds appropriately to the thread-OPs logic..
And, Felix finishes with the disclaimer 'I'm sure there are some..'
Your response seems to ignore his disclaimer.. and the point of his comment.
@jinkerjinx: You seem to ignore the part of his disclaimer where it's qualified by his recollection.
I'm sure there are some but I don't recall any.
If you're going to quote the disclaimer, you should really quote the whole thing. And my comment is response to their comment regarding their inability to recall seeing any (presumably, and given the context) from Dashcam Australia's videos
Long time member of shit cars of Australia. Tesla is really popular there
except Tesla does not allow Apple Carplay no matter what
Thats because the software is good u don't need it never missed apple car play
Can youe phone notifications pop up and be read out loud?
@R-Man: R-man, text messages and phone calls still come through on the screen.
The software is very snappy. I've used carplay on previous cars and the Tesla software is IMO much better with the only weakness you can't run waze on it. Everything else I prefer over carplay.
Tesla's messaging system is hot garbage and I just use Siri for that still.
The Appel Music app also sucks, but I'm using Bluetooth.I love my Tesla, and the software is mostly amazing. But CarPlay was a far better experience for music and messaging.
@thrillhouse: its actually not if you got the latest updates. It understands me clearly. i use it to text all the time. Siri doesn't' control all car functions like tesla voice commands do.
my car doesn’t have carplay, bought an FM transmitter with bluetooth to phone $20, done.
Not even remotely the same experience as CarPlay/Android Auto. There is more than audio.
Touch grass.
Laughs in Chinese factory slave worker
Being any Fanboy is like being any other Fanboy
Pricing seems to have more in common with Android fanboy.
New model comes out, then it just keeps getting discounted to boost sales. Apple on the other hand rarely drop the rrp.Except prices go down down not up lol instant deprecation 😅
Thats all cars
Yeah most Ev's, RRP dont go down on others usually.
Except that Elon is going to Mars while Tim Cook is going woke.
Elon is a space cadet, Agreed
100% with out steve jobs Apple is just all woke and no innovation at all. Tesla will be the first cars on Mars too btw :D
% wise, this is not impressive
I know ay, it's such a bad bargain but is a bad bargain still a bargain? That is the question
I know by the time u add red colour and 19 inch sports wheels drive away is 80k
Don't forget to add the FSD for a cool 10k + LCT
@aka nioh: Fsd isn't fully available in Australia so don waste your money on it. Wait till its officially released here
@kungfuman: also another tip buy fsd AFTER buying the car not together with the car on the order page and it won't attract LCT.
Do you really want red? and from a US manufacturer? that's gunna be faded and horrible in no time!
@BlasterBoy: i like the new red :D its better than the old red colour I think, they don't import them from the U.S. anymore they are all made in there China factory for this region.
I thought the larger wheels particularly on electric cars reduces range & comfort, why would you add them?
@VCertainty: because it looks good. if I get a car I want it to look good. I don't' care about the utility lol I just want to look good. The stock wheels are ugly.
Yes, -1.4% vs -10% for GWM Ora ($35.99k driveaway for similar functionality) . Who is smarter here?
man I think you need to do your research on Tesla because it appears you don't know anything about the tech that is in a tesla.
you're comparing a tiny ass cheapo car with 270km real world range vs a car that will consistently get near 600km and has AWD and 0-100 in the mid 4's?
righto.
Ora, Fiat500e, dolphin, seagull are all good cars if they are in the price bracket they should be that is $12k-$20k smoking the sxxxx out of corollo/yaris/swift/barina mazda2/jazz and hell lot of others.
BYD understood that since ages and that is exactly the market for their Seagull/Dolphin mini.
The earlier other manufacturers recognize that cater to that market the higher their chances of success.
Is this a good vehicle to get me to KFC?
Absolutely, and now you have an extra $1000 to spend on KFC
Heck yea!
Not really, they’d have $70900.00 less to spend on KFC
Brian McGee K.F.Cs
Nah man
For example, I (an intellectual) bought two of these, so I now have $2000 to spend at KFC. It's pretty simple maths.
Ssshhhhh🤫
KFC? I don't care
Yes you do
Do they have a Thai Honey flavour chicken? No.
Also a new compartment for your chicken in front
kfc now deliver $72,700 to spend on kfc instead
If an uber eats driver rocks up with my kfc in a tesla then they get paid too much
I've had multiple Model 3 drivers turn up as Uber eats and Amazon delivery drivers….maybe they got bored of having money and too much spare time.
Cant see myself buying an EV anytime soon, just not my cup of tea.
Did you not get enough tea bags in your order?
Nope just too many down sides to evs i think alot of people gonna lose big.
I feel the same way. The ROI period is longer than predicted battery life.
@greennick: I'm comparing cars of similar size but with ICE, Hybrid, PHEV or EV engines/motors.,The savings of recharging an EV (say $7-$10 per full charge) versus the cost of filling up the tank with petrol (say $80-$90 at today's prices) yields savings but the price of an EV itself is much higher than a similarly sized ICE car.
So by ROI of getting an EV, I mean, how long does it take for me to "save" enough petrol money to start benefitting from the EV purchase. My calculations show it is between 7-10 years depending on models and cost etc which is roughly how long car batteries last.
@soan papdi: Replying to myself as the edit window expired.I'm no luddite and am fully aware EVs are the future. They just don't make economic sense to me in 2024. Once there are more models and a decent 5 seater like Kia EV6 doesn't cost $80,000 (maybe more like $45,000) I will get an EV for sure.
@soan papdi: Perhaps TCO is the acronym you are after. For your circumstances, the total cost of ownership is better for an ICE vehicle than an EV.
@soan papdi: depends on distance driven. For me (40000 km a year) it was about 17 months for it to be worth it over a petrol car. I'm comfortably ahead now.
It appear to me that being a Tesla fanboy is a lot like being an Apple fanboy.