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Coming from a Tesla white interior, the Yosemite was my instinct as well…but the Tahoe leather is more supple and luxurious, and seemed more befitting of the car's design.

I've gotten positive comments about the doors even with people just opening and handling them for the first time—they remark that it feels solid and hefty, a good balance in weight that I think does the job of communicating that the car is well-built. We haven't had a huge issue w/ the soft...

Hmmm, yeah, we should keep this thread going. Another neat, perhaps non-obvious little feature, is that you can drag the 360° camera view around the car. The camera app renders your car in 3D, and you can spin around the view to get essentially a sphere of the environment around the Gravity...

Yeah, that's the one. This is my first HUD as well; I was curious about the tech. for a while but just didn't find a vehicle that I wanted that had the feature. I will say that seeing how other manufacturers are advancing with their HUD tech (e.g., BMW...

In some of the promo videos it showed the ability to track cars on the road and also draw out lane changes onto the road itself during autonomous driving.

I've experienced the wonky BT issues as well; it'd stop for no reason (as if the BT connection went away and then quickly reconnected), and then the phone's state of play then seems to go out of sync w/ what the car thinks is the state plays/pauses with a lag or does the opposite. Nothing too...

An even cooler feature that I miss w/ my Gravity is their "charge by solar": you can plug in any time, and if you have Tesla Solar and/or a Powerwall, it'll redirect any excess solar capacity towards the car so you net out not routing electricity to your utility while your car is not at its limit.

That may be true for the front rows since the visors disrupt the giant panoramic windshield, but I'd be surprised if you thought of the same of the 2nd row (not to mention the 3rd); the small roof windows of the X to accommodate the design of the Falcon Wing doors doesn't compare to the...

For me anyway, they were a 1-of-1 car as an EV 3-row SUV for a while, and if you had to transport more than ~4 people sometimes (e.g., 2 kids + 2 grandparents), there was no other option at all.

Agreed, that's why I think it's best set up as an accessory instead of built into the cars.

I think this thread is revealing that for a lot—probably most—people, a car is still a tool that gets them from point A → B, so reliability is near the top of the list of requirements. For these new EVs and Tesla, one aspect of the core value proposition is "a computer on wheels" with...

Yeah, it's really the overall design of the vehicle that reveals a lot of its flaws. People were all up in arms over misaligned door panels, when just getting the falcon wing doors to even work is a minor miracle in and of itself.

Agreed. One of the big advantages w/ Magsafe and magnets is that it aligns the charging coils when you place the phone, and adds that "lip" to the charging mat so that the touch surface is a lot closer. With how big the camera bumps are on modern phones, this latter part does make a real...

I didn't know they benchmarked to Volvo; that's great to know. I remember that with the initial XC90 refresh, they had features like tightening the seat belt when a crash is detected to protect passengers—again, things that go well beyond just satisfying NHTSA standards.

Well, you've identified the problems w/ those kinds of ratings: it's hard to have a comprehensive "safety" metric and ranking when there are so many different factors at play, for something that should be relatively rare on an individual basis to begin with. Pretty much all modern cars (and EVs...

One thing I've learned in the past 3 weeks of driving the Gravity, is that the blank screen problem is pretty common, and that the best thing to do is wait for the screens to eventually boot up if you can. The boot sequence/timing of the systems seems to be: driving (so cockpit screens on the...

That's the thing, in practice, having had both 6- and 7-seat variations of 3-row SUVs, the Model X's implementation isn't that great beyond getting that initial aesthetic look. Sure, the seats look like the ones in the front row, but w/o all the adjustments unless they're designed to be...

Well, to be fair, the Dream Edition etching is like $5k by itself, and the golden bears are going for $10k on the resale market.

They do come w/ the car, but at least for mine they weren't installed by default. I asked them to do it; apparently, their techs have tools to align them better than I can do it freehand.

Noted! Still learning the names of all the screens...