Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Don’t you feel though that you could copy paste this post any time in the past 11 years and it would carry the same weight.

In 17yrs on the Motors forum I’ve never seen the hype around an upcoming car like the model 3, tens of thousands of posts across 3 threads since announcement in 2016, and yet Irish buyers simply don’t seem too fussed - indeed we’ve bought 1750 Yaris Cross this year versus 190 model 3 (which I’ll never understand btw).

see Tesla dropping prices again today in the US, the 2nd drop this month, which tells you they have a serious worldwide demand problem for their current level of factory production

If they announced the model 2 tomorrow, we wouldn't see it in Ireland for a few years, so I think cheap model 3’s will be around for a while yet.

To be fair, a base yaris cross is 8-9k cheaper than a base Model 3 as it's currently priced. It's only in the past 6 months the Model 3 came into the price bracket of a wider proportion of the population. Adding in the incredibly poor public charging infrastructure and it's easy to see why so many people are still reluctant to switch. The price of the M3 and MY could and should drop further if they want less wealty people to buy them new. The staple brands like volkswagen and toyota EVs are still very expensive compared to ICE. A lot of people want crossovers nowadays for practicality so if Tesla cut the price of the MY further then more people will buy.

There's the fuel price disparity of ICE and BEV relative to entry cost at the lower end of the affordability scale. If you charge your BEV at 24hr rates currently it doesn't really make financial sense for people to switch to a significantly more expensive ICE.

Tesla brought huge hype because of the supercar-like performance, features, different experience for relatively little money so it's understandable why people were so excited.

The government should pour some of this €16bn surplus next year into the charging infrastructure.

I got €38100 a month ago for an ID4 1st Edition I paid €41k for two years earlier. There are now two of the same model (albeit double or more the mileage) listed in VW dealers on Carzone for less than my trade in price.

Edit: that trade in equalled the max I was offered by VW in Cork. When I put it on Donedeal I was offered €39k by a Dublin VW dealer - bizarrely I reckon it was the same dealer that took it through Tesla.

I was. But having said that, if I'd been offered that trade in six months earlier (pre Tesla price cut) I'd have laughed at it so swings and roundabouts!

Did anybody waiting on a new M3 receive a collection time? Thanks.

Thanks.

Tesla themselves also did it in Canada with a 151km WLTP Model 3.

the reasoning was to sell it below a certain price meaning the more expensive versions would qualify for a grant (to get the grant across all versions you needed a ‘base spec’ version which cost less than $45k)

I believe it was just a regular SR+ renamed the SR and software locked to 151km WLTP

I’d imagine they thought they wouldn’t sell many, but apparently they sold like hotcakes…. I’d say it was an easy enough limit to implement in the car with an OTA update to lock away most of the battery….

I can pretty much guarantee that in about 10-15 years those cars will have zero degradation!!

Who is rushing to buy thinking price drops are temporary? Most people are buying to take advantage of the price drops and the full SEAI €5k grant before July 1st.

According to Tesla they won't unlock those cars. They were only offered for sale to meet a minimum starting price for the Model 3, so that it could avail of the incentives there. I'd say they set it so low in the hopes few would actually buy it. As mentioned, you basically have a forever 150km range car. Grand if that's all that you would need.

In the 1st year or 2 I’d fluctuate between having the aero caps off and on….. if they were ever off they’d go back on for a long trip……

The last time I put them on was last summer before we drove to Lithuania, and I think they’ve been on since….

when washing the car it’s easier to clean the aero caps than the alloys… (so that’s my excuse)

These are great. I have a set from AliExpress that I use in summer...still looking good heading into their 3rd season.