This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

Yes, a very good buy. High miles and I'd say they paid very little for it as a trade in and they've underpriced it or want rid quickly. Tesla have pretty much exactly this car for sale themselves with very low mileage for €48k. That's too high but I'd nearly go as far that the one in your link is too low. They dropped the price by €3k a few days ago and it looks like it is still for sale. Goes to show that there aren't many people in the market for a 6 year old high end Tesla.

The one that was posted last week was a 142 P(erformance) 85 (my former car), posted by me. The asking price was €25k but it was actually sold for €20k, an unbelievable bargain. The new owner is a boardsie, spotted my post and bought it. He lives locally to me and we met up yesterday for a chat 😀

I've done worse. And contrary to popular belief, I don't bring a gun and point it at the seller's head 😂

8 year unlimited mileage warranty still applies

And the second question depends very much on what you need and value in a car. Would you rather a 6 year old BMW 745i to travel in ultimate comfort and speed with lots of toys powered by a smooth self breathing petrol V8 or a brand new but slow 316d with a tiny smelly force fed tractor engine? (I know not a fair comparison, but I made these same decisions 20 years ago and did actually buy older BMW cars with large V8 petrol engines)

For me it's easy as I simply need a large hatchback. The Model 3 is not large and doesn't have a hatchback 😂

There will be others. A regular on this forum paid €25k last month for a 2020 Model 3 LR AWD last month. Plus auction fees, but still.

Not really that hard and I'd be fairly confident that all Model S have that. Not only that but as long as you have 2 keys, one for you and one for your wife, if you enter the car (without touching any button or use any key), the car knows who it is and will put all the settings in place that are in your profile. My wife wants range in km, I want it in percentage SOC. The car knows that. I kid you not. All Teslas had that over 10 years ago. Also if you run the VIN through a VIN calculator, you can find out exactly what options the car has. Mind if the car was subsequently sold by Tesla, some of those options might have been removed by Tesla, mean bullies that they are.

€35500 which was a good price at the time. Cars in general were in a bubble then, which well and truly burst when Tesla lowered the price of a new Model Y twice significantly over a 3 month period from late last year. He did put up 70k km though with zero maintenance apart from tyres. And saved a fair few bob on fuel, tax and tolls. And I feel he sold it too cheaply. He had only reduced it in the last few months from €33k to €25k, he was keen to move onto something new.