05-10-2016, 12:29 PM | #191 |
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Looks like Motor Trend published their article about their photo visit of the Model 3 at the Gigafactory. They had published a blog earlier with some pics, but it looks like they saved the better photos for the article: http://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla...otos-analysis/
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05-10-2016, 12:44 PM | #192 |
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It's really weird to see a car without a front grille.
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05-10-2016, 12:57 PM | #193 |
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Its not like this is the first car ever made without a front grille.
But then again, perhaps I'm warming up to it a bit more since I grew up with my dad driving cars without front grilles. His daily driver was one of these:
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Good point. In fact most rear and md engine cars have very clean, attractive front ends. The Tesla non-grill grill makes no sense. I'm also tired of reading wide-eyed articles in the press about how the tesla's front end looks the way it does because there's "no engine there!!"...as if it's a new thing. I love tesla but I find it a bit nauseating when they are given credit for innovating stuff that's been around for years. Pretty sure they could convince people that they invented disc brakes if they wanted to. |
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But like Apple, they have thus far executed on older ideas better than anyone else to a point it feels new. They just blew it on the 3's front end. I'll give him a pass on the anonmobileness of the rest of it in this context, but the front draws a whole picture of horrid.
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05-11-2016, 07:18 PM | #198 |
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The thing is... the front is growing on me.
But it is possible Tesla modifies it -- they could very easily eliminate what I call the "duck lip" and JST called the Continental Tire look by just aligning the break line a bit lower. There's a thread over at TMC where someone photoshopped the front to do that, and it completely eliminates the negative aspect of the front...
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Hey… Adrian made an appearance!
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