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Re: Model S value Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:13:49 In Reply to: Model S value, A1-turbo, Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:38:27 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
No question, the car is not cheap to buy... but it is not way more than vehicles than I would say are comparable... It's really not fair to compare it on price vs a cruze "because they have the same passenger volume", as there are many differences... nor is it really equivalent to the 7 seater suv's... This is a luxury car like buying a BMW or Audi, so if eg you compare based on the price of a 4 series gran coupe (around $45k give or take), it is expensive ($62k), but not astronomically more so... When you consider a 9-5 Aero in 1994 dollars was $38k msrp, which blindly correcting for inflation is about $62k, it is probably not outrageously out of the ballpark...
Do middle-class people buy BMW's? well, it probably depends on your definition of middle-class... probably the same argument could be posed wrt SAAB: did middle-class people buy SAABs? are architects, lawyers, engineers, dentists, etc considered middle-class? probably depends who you talk to!
I'm in no rush at the moment, but the model S looks appealing. I suspect BMW and Audi will have competing offerings before long as both are working with electrified drive trains on other cars already. Competition is what will bring the prices down to more reasonable levels for the middle-class...
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