cravacor
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- Thomas
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- 2021 MME
There are a small fraction of Taycans in existence compared to Mach-Es, of course there will be less interweb chatter re. Issues. Also, I imagine if a person can afford a $200k car it is one of a fleet of vehicles they own and at that level of the game people probably don't spend a lot of time in forums about their vehicles. Another phenomena I've observed with some makes (Lexus, Tesla) is owners are less likely to be vocal about quality issues or explain them off as somehow intentional because to accept that the vehicle has problems would be admitting the owner made a bad purchase decision.I’ve been looking forward to getting my GTPE for a long time now (I placed my reservation back in November 2019 during the announcement press event), and I have a build week of 7/11. This will be my first non-ICE car, and to be honest the posts which are floating to the top of this forum cause a bit of concern in my mind. Im not really worried about range anxiety or other things like that, but really about the software that is so core to the workings of this, or any other BEV.
I’ve been a professional software engineer in both an individual contributor and leadership role for over 20 years, so I understand how hard large, integrated software development challenges can be. I get it. That said, I’m highly concerned about seeing how recent software updates are leaving people with cars which are worse off than before the update, or the update outright bricks their car. These sorts of issues just shouldn’t be happening. When perusing other forums for recent EVs (eg. taycan forums), I see complaints which are more one-offs as opposed to singular issues which hit a wide swath of owners, like we see on the MME. Again, the fact that we are seeing such a few number of issues causing so much disruption is a concern about how software is developed/deployed with this vehicle.
I had hoped that the delay to get a GT would also get some of these teething issues out of the way, but it seems like we’re in the thick of that right now. I am still really excited to get this car and want it to be great, but man… Ford needs to improve their testing and deployment.
Anybody have any words of encouragement?
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