Why the Mustang Mach E is better than the Tesla Model Y

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Clever solution if you are buying a Yugo; or a product from Ikea.
Or better yet, a Yugo with Ikea parts.
 

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I’ll raise this one again: quality.

i know we haven’t seen the production Mach Es yet but we’ve heard about Ford’s quality targets.

I just sat next to a Model Y at a stoplight this afternoon. I could see irregular gaps and panels weren’t flush. And that’s just looking for seconds from the next car over. ?
 

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I’ll raise this one again: quality.

i know we haven’t seen the production Mach Es yet but we’ve heard about Ford’s quality targets.

I just sat next to a Model Y at a stoplight this afternoon. I could see irregular gaps and panels weren’t flush. And that’s just looking for seconds from the next car over. ?
Yes, as someone who had a recent Y ordered (son has a T) and then refused the Y delivery, I can confirm that QC is a widespread Tesla problem. Even so, the wildly high resale value baffles me. Probably Teslas best feature. Remains to be seen what the ME will do a year or two out in comparison.
 

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Yes, as someone who had a recent Y ordered (son has a T) and then refused the Y delivery, I can confirm that QC is a widespread Tesla problem.
That's what it will take, more and more people refusing delivery to get Tesla to solve these QC problems, otherwise their just looking at how many cars they deliver weekly.
 

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We have no idea of the speed he drove during the trip. Show me the time it took. Show me the traffic reports. It could have been going 120 kph or it could have been 90 kph.
 

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Google Maps directions confirm that's it's a fairly slow mountain road from Oslo to Trondheim. A generic city-to-city drive shows 491 km in 6:26 hours. That's an average of 47 MPH.
 

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Use your ABRP and compare the two vehicles on that route.
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