Is this car really worth the money? or is it a meme?

don't buy it yet, they will probably improve it significantly in a year or two

Yeah, $40k for a car that goes from point A to point B. You can also buy a car for like $5k that does that just as reliable. So for $40k you get to be slightly more comfortable for some small portion of time you are in your car, which is probably something you already try to keep to as low as possible. You can buy a sick boat or like 5 bitcoin for the same. Spending it on a faux luxury meme car seems like a complete waste.

lol a boat that you'll use 5x a year? vs a car you'll use every day? and I'm talking 400/mo here vs the 200/mo I already pay. not bad at all

I'm gonna buy a muscle car. It's unpractical in every way but it's fun and that's what matters.

Cars are, in general, extremely poor investments.

Excellent car. Go for the performance
I have a white on white and wouldn't drive a Lambo over it if given the option.

They are a meme. All cars are a meme except for Toyota and Honda because you're paying for something other than reliability and economy.

Cars are like expensive watches, latest model iPhones and clothing. You don't get anything other than the shallow aesthetic of being seen with perceived high value items, and their utility can be replicated with cheaper variants.

In fact, many car brands trade on this exclusively despite the fact that their reliability is dog shit. Land Rover and BMW are well known for this.

But for some people they don't care and they are happy to eat the losses.

bad fit and finish
cant even color match paints
horrible panel gaps
calls adaptive cruise control autopilot leading to deaths
meme company and meme cars

This
And not just the tech
The fucking battery is a thermal runaway event waiting to happen. Not only will we see more fires with aging cars, (there was a first gen model S a month back that went on fire in a garage in the Bay Area)
Also, punctures.
They say they armor it, but a bullet went through the floor from the backseat into a battery and caused a thermal runaway.

Put a bullet in a gas tank and you just get a leak, fire risk comes from leaking gas touching hot part of car, or fire in engine interacts with gas in fuel line.
But there are more steps between a gas tank puncture and a gasoline fire and a battery puncture and a runaway event.

But the other thing is, the only reason you would buy a model 3, is because you couldn't afford the higher end model. Is there any other reason to choose the 3? Its worse than buying a luxury car to show off, they are buying the poor-man's model of a luxury car and hoping people don't know or can't tell its the poor-man's model.

I also hear all this cope math from tesla fags, like thinking about it monthly payments after applying one-time rebates like the tax incentive, and then adding in say 10 years of "savings" on gas... As if this thing is going to last anywhere near 10 years.

This is the truth right here. I think Teslas are super cool and even want one myself, but I know it would just be a complete indulgence and not really improve my life in any meaningful way.

>what is signalling theory

Kek

Still better track record than people.

>As if this thing is going to last anywhere near 10 years.
Teslas are probably reliable enough to easily last 20 years

I just think its hilarious that people splurging on a model 3 the year it comes out are acting like they will be driving the same car 10 years from now.

the expensive batteries wont even last half that before you need to replace them

10 years of innovation would make those batteries cheaper and better in every way.

im a cheap bastard so i won't get one for another 6 years or so but they're pretty slick status symbols and i heard to fun to own if you want to shell out

>rare resources like lithium will go down in price, not up
I detest you optimists. We are not approaching post-scarcity, we are approaching actual scarcity. The world population has tripled in 50 years.

Why would somebody be shooting at your car? You don't live around niggers do you?