Tesla Model Y

It’s been claimed on some VW owners forums that Volkswagen lost money on pretty much all of the e-Golfs they sold and reluctantly had to keep building them for longer than planned in small numbers due to delays in getting ID.3 production underway. ID.3’s were initially being built for €10k less per car than the e-Golfs which ties in with the obvious differences in build quality. Mk 8 Golfs also seem to have gone backwards losing small stuff like bonnet struts etc.

Yeah I lumped safety and driver aids together which is probably unfair. I just don’t know exactly what the standard MY offers there. Certainly there are driver aids in the Ariya that aren’t in the MY, which is really how I should have said it.

It was in the budget for 2023 that the SEAI EV grant of €5000 will be reduced from July 2023. No details known yet. I'd expect it to be gone completely by sometime in 2024

And yes, get a reasonably well priced EV like the Model Y and grab the subsidy just before it ends likely means that the car will be quite well shielded from heavy depreciation.

We thought we got very lucky with the Ariya. We were told it would be in within 2 weeks. That was 5 weeks ago. Given it was before the MY reduction and was apparently going to available almost immediately it was a bit of a no brainer. We’ll see if that bears out in the coming weeks I suppose. But yeah, there’s feck all between the 2. The missus is a bit concerned about the suspension thing on the MY though, which I understand. I believe there is still some confusion/conflicting reports over what will be delivered in the new year.

I ordered with the black interior and am wondering should I have gone with the white. I'm leaning towards changing as lots of the reviews online maintain the white is really easy to clean even when you have a couple of young kids in and out of it. The fact that the back of the two front seats seems to be black in helping convince me it won't be that bad with kids. Has anyone here had Tesla's with the white interior and how did you find it trying to maintain it ?

OK I see that the PDF shows the added 5K, so no Tow Bar so!

Strange isnt it? Add a towbar get the car early, its like a promo 🤪

"Currently the Model Y standard range has a waiting time of just one to four weeks rather than several months, according to the company's website configurator. Since it takes some time for an order to be processed and a car manufactured, this means there is enough capacity at present to meet forecast demand in China without breaking a sweat."

"Tesla does not offer a standard-range Model Y in the U.S. market, as Americans would not accept a vehicle that can drive only the equivalent of 267 miles on the European WLTP test cycle. Germany does, however, and the price for the same vehicle imported out of China is €53,990 ($53,000), although a large chunk of the premium is due to the country's 19% value-added tax and import duties."

Considering anyone that ordered is being told March and even allowing 4 weeks by Sea from China. This seems to indicate that cars for Ireland will be built in Germany.

H.U.D. Is a must for me, Its brilliant for navigation, music and speed limits, whilst never taking ones eyes of the road.

Nope. New colours only available on LR AWD and P, not on RWD. I just checked the Dutch Tesla site for reference.

When you select say the AWD LR, you get the new colours: