Struja
“Frost”
I think the biggest thing I’d say about this is I’ve never viewed any car in this price range as a “need”. It’s purely a “want” for me. In terms of “need”, I live 6km from my business, Toronto’s traffic means when I go to Raptors/Leafs/TFC games, I take the Go Train. If I got a car based on need, I could find much cheaper and likely more sensible options. Spending 100k or more on a car is many things but sensible is probably not one of them, however there is no replacing how a specific car makes you feel. In fact, for us men, there is some science behind it (Fast cars boost men's testosterone levels: research'.). When I used to drive my wife’s RX (on the rare and forced occasion), I could literally feel my testerone levels vanishing with every minute behind the wheel.My 2016 Model S is worth maybe $25,000? The 2023 is 100k+tax. I would expect for that kind of jump to be impressed and I wasn't. Leather is better in my 2016, steering wheel doesn't feel cheap in the 2016, opening roof which I use 6 months of the year in Victoria.
All the points you listed such as improved air suspension are pretty minor given the context (8 years newer). As I said range is insane and so is acceleration problem is I can't use the acceleration/speed where I live. Max speed on highways is 90 km/h around Victoria. I think the biggest problem is the two things the 2023 really accels at (range and acceleration) I 100% don't need either.
I think the problem these days is cheap cars starting with a Mazda3, for example, are so good that there is such a small delta different going up in price.
My first car was a 1991 Integra and then my second car was a 2008 Honda Civic and I remember that being a huge jump in terms of going from no AC to AC, going from crank windows to power windows.
Then I went to a 2012 Honda Civic and then to the 2016 Tesla and the Civic to Tesla I felt was a huge jump.
Now we are talking about "quieter" from a 45k to a 100k car and the 45k is already quite quiet.
I would disagree that the primary differences are simply suspension, range and speed (although the suspension is so much better it literally drives like a different car).
The car with a fully functioning computer is a different animal. Maybe your car is different than mine but I couldn’t use my browser. Games were hit and miss. AP1 was limited. No dash cam. No sentry. No blind spot monitoring. No live view from app. New car has no panel gaps and frankly it seems to be put together better than the Taycan, which has three annoying rattles which I can’t seem to locate. To me, this is a totally different car.