The Verge Tests Tesla Model 3 With Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) On Hand

Woman says interior doesn’t feel like a $60,000 car. That’s because it’s really the interior of a $31,500 car. It would look exactly the same inside if you bought the SR Model 3 at $35,000 and bought the premium interior for $5,000 minus the $7,500 tax incentive. Adding the LR battery and all of the autopilot and full autonomous package and the expensive wheels has nothing to do about the interior. But that’s besides the point. I think the problem is that the people that think the interior isn’t luxurious enough in the 3 and even the S have a preconceived idea of what luxury is. If you touched the wood or the plastic of the dash in a similar in class BMW in isolation it would feel and seem just as cheap to her. It’s just that most people don’t see it for all the buttons, knobs and gauges and multiple busy layers and swoops of the dash form that make it look fancy in their eyes. It ultimately comes down to preference. A similar analogy is architecture. The average person would prefer a home that is built as a modern representation of the nostalgic past with lots of… Read more »