SR = Standard Range (single motor)
LR = Long Range (dual motor)
Ireland never had the Standard Range (SR), only the Standard Range Plus (SR+) which was renamed the RWD a few years back.
I think the point is that there’s no SR LR. It’s a LR RWD.
Yep, meant to write SR/LR RWD 😅
Just to note, as a previous M3 RWD 2022 owner and now a refresh RWD owner, the audio quality difference has been greatly reduced in the new model, the 2022 had okay RWD base model quality, the 2024 RWD audio is significantly improved, it's actually hard to believe there is no active sub given the bass improvement and this is coming from someone in the HiFi scene over 30years.
Has anyone moved from a RWD to a Highland RWD? Is there a noticeable noise reduction in motorway? I am ok with the noise levels on my 23 RWD but I am wonderin what others experiences are?
Yes, it's noticeable.
Is it worth changing for, probably not.
Take one out for a test drive and see for yourself.
Yes, quite noticeable
Do other people find the voice recognition to be horrendously bad? I don't understand how it can be so bad for a "tech" company. There is light and day between a Tesla and Alexa.
Yes. I agree it's unusable. I don't do it as it's a total hack but saying the destination to Google Maps voice recognition and sharing the location with the Tesla app gets there faster.
Mine works well, maybe it's your accent😛
I was just thinking this. But I don’t use it extensively. glove box, heating and a few other bits.
it’s always flawless for me (I’m from Dublin)
Mine rarely misses an instruction. Occassionally if I ask for an obscure song or album from Spotify it might throw up the wrong selection but generally it works great for navigation, general controls and spotify.
Tesla said we have you covered we hired junkies from Dublin to help with the voice recognition.
You to the car: Alri', wotz da stori wi' ya, driv us ta da nearest offy.
No wonder it could understand you.
Fulla joax tidaay, arint ye?
Interesting review from USA on all the highland variants.
Rwd long range efficiency of near 5 miles per kWh at 70mph.
https://youtu.be/Y4YjsuoeynQ?si=WONcRjUsrQtChkYe
I got the new model 3 LR Dual Motor in February and I’m getting itchy feet that the performance is out now. With the much better PCP rates there wouldn’t be much change in my repayments, but I must be mad to be thinking this I know. I assume I’d lose quite a bit on my current car so it would make it undoable.
Depends what way you want to sell your current car. I’d expect a circa €5k loss?
I bought a Model 3 Performance in Late August 23. I enquired about a trade in for the new performance model in April so 8 months old and they offered 34700. 15000kms on the clock.
I wouldn't expect a decent price from Tesla for your car.
Only live once. If you can afford it and you want it, stuff it!
Offer your car to Graham in Graham Walker Cars in Harold’s Cross or Richie in Vector Motors to see where you lie.
If it makes you happy I’d do it. I change cars very frequently and love having something different to drive.
Graham will certainly do a deal with you i'd imagine.
When I was looking to sell my Y, he was much more willing to do a deal and would actually negotiate with you.
Richie just had a price and that was it. I went with Graham in the end and it was very smooth.
Just be prepared for a slightly worse hit than you expect.
As others have said, you only live once!
Looking at HP with Finance Ireland it says charges may apply if the finance deal is paid off early - it seems to be standard blurb with all HP deals.
Does anyone know what these charges are wrt the Tesla M3? At .99% APR if the charges are a % of the remaining interest then I'd happily pay that.
Keep in mind that USA gets different batteries from Panasonic, while we get LG ones and there could be more small differences that could affect range.
It could still work out ok as the interest rate is way lower now than it was when I bought my car.
That's what I'm thinking but it appears the only way to see the T&C's is to pay the deposit and complete the credit application which is frankly ridiculous. I'd like to know what the T&C's are before entering an agreement.
Perhaps an Acceleration Boost as a happy midway upgrade? Folk with lots of Referral Points can get it cheaper for you (not me) so ask here if you are interested
Always an option alright. I’ll do it for half price 😂
There's no acceleration boost upgrade available for Highland. I assume they want to maintain the acceleration performance gap between M3LR AWD and M3P. In the pre-facelift there was little difference when acceleration boost was added to the LR, in fact, the LR AWD pulls ahead at higher speeds.
Can confirm this too. Done a search for it in the referral store for someone during the week.
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