SmallTown
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I would love a TVR. I was in a hair of getting a chimaera back in the day. The noise, the frame was so appealing. And the power for the cost of course. My first dream car was a Cerbera.They were rubbish even back in the day. You are sitting offset so they are uncomfortable for any length of time. However they have great suspension and a superb chassis that transmits every pebble in the road to your hands.
I have driven a 911 and I know porsche lovers rave about them but I marginally preferred the boxer mainly because of insurance costs and not being worried parking it anywhere. Great cars to drive, both of them.
If you want a proper drivers car go for any tvr. They have no driver aids at all including Air bags and want to kill you on every bend. You will die with a big grin on your face though.
I defy anyone to drive a tvr and not love every oversteer until you get it wrong, of course.
Back to the OP: the thing about Tesla is you can't believe the hype. They simply aren't all that. There are many good points: some people like the simplicity of the cabin. Because they are pure bred EV instead of converted ICE the space on them is massive for their size. Good "packaging" as they say. And, as far as the drive train goes they are very very good. The charging curve is excellent. The power and efficiency is best in class, sometimes by a long way.
The nuch lauded software is pretty poor though. As others have said auto pilot is prone to "phantom braking" on the motorway. The auto park sometimes work and sometimes is hopeless. More often than not hopeless too. The auto wipers don't use simple sensors like all other cars and as a result aren't good and the headlights are garbage in two ways: the dipped headlights are terrible and the auto main beam is so unreliable it's actually dangerous.
So yeah, as a vehicle they are fine but you have to be prepared to beta test the software for them.