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Don’t know why this is being downvoted. I really wanted to get a BMW. The total price itself was no issue for me at all, but I just couldn’t justify paying a premium for a car that in parts feels bad. The software stack is horrible.

Got a Skoda instead. Its software is also horrible but at least it was a bargain.




Software being bad in a car is not nice, but it's not as bad as having reliability issue on the car pieces itself, like Tesla has.


Tesla consistently ranks middle of the pack in unbiased reliability rankings. Given that an electric car has ~10% of the moving parts as an ICE, middle of the pack is pretty bad, but from a customer perspective middle of the pack isn't bad.


It's not middle of the pack in price either. I remember seeing this survey where Telsa was right next to Dacia in terms of reliability despite the very different price tag.


I'm in North America, so the Model 3 is one of the cheapest available EV's. No Dacia, no Chinese EV's. AFAICT, only the Leaf & Equinox are cheaper.


As long as it supports Android auto/car play and has physical control for important stuff, I (and most people I know) don't care about software. It will be obsolete in a few years anyway.


Note that that is also, for all intents and purposes, a German car.




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