On 2025-11-23 00:50:29 +0000, Pluted Pup said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6IVoB6j3Pg
This was on Youtube Kids.
It would be actually educational to have pointed out the design flaws,
by comparing it with more average cars.
Invisible door handles aren't "neat", but stupid. The novelty wears off
very quick and then you're stuck with a gimmick.
The instrument panel is dangerous: all information is shunted to a
touch screen in the middle of the dash, whether it's the gas gauge, speedometer, etc.
Touchscreen gear shifts are also a flaw, worse than the push button
gear shifts at the center of the steering wheel on a 1959 Edsel.
To give the video maker credit, he's no worse than any other reporter, ignoring the basics and only looking at the hype.
Germany's TUV names Tesla's Model Y "Most Defective Car of the Year".
No surprise there, Tesla cars are utter crap, always have been.
Tesla Model Y Is The Most Defective Car This Year, Germany Says
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There are plenty of reasons to refuse to buy a Tesla that have
nothing to do with its cars, especially in Germany, but there are
also plenty of car-related reasons to avoid Teslas, too. For
example, our friends at MotorTrend lived with a Tesla Model Y for
two years and hated every minute of it. And that's coming from an
outlet that basically had nothing but positive things to say
about the Model 3 when it first came out. Now, a new report from
Germany has labeled the Model Y the most defect-ridden new car you
can buy. Yikes.
The report comes from?T?V S?D, a German auditing, inspection, and
certification firm, and is based on data collected from about
9.5 million vehicle inspections over the past year. Overall,?TUV
found that the rate of significant faults found in the millions of
inspected cars rose 0.9% year-over-year, rising to 21.5%, and
while?the number of cars with low significant fault rates improved
by 0.8 percentage points, the number of cars without any faults
dropped by 1.8 percentage points. Still, it found?66.1% of cars
had no faults, and only?0.5% were deemed?"not roadworthy," so
things aren't as bad as they could be.?
Among cars that are two or three years old, the best ones to buy,
at least according to this report, are the Volkswagen T-Roc and
Mercedes-Benz B-Class, which both had a defect rate of 3.0%, or
the Mazda 2, which had a defect rate of 2.9%. Meanwhile, the worst
cars to buy were the Tesla Model 3 (13.1%), Ford Mondeo (14.3%),
and the Tesla Model Y (17.3%). The report also noted that?"although
the Teslas once again take up the bottom places, a positive note is
that both models had driven well over 50,000 kilometers after just
two to three years-an impressive mileage, particularly for an
electric vehicle." So Tesla's most popular cars may be built like
crap, and the CEO may be a far-right lunatic, but at least the
people who still buy his cars drive them a lot.
How older cars fared
TUV's report didn't just look at cars that were two or three years
old, though. Among cars that were between four and five years old,
the top spots went to the Audi Q2 (4.5%), Volkswagen T-Roc (4.0%),
and Volkswagen Golf Sportsvan (4.0%), while the?BMW 2 Series Active
Tourer (20.6%), Tesla Model 3 (21.0%),?and BMW 5/6 Series (21.5%)
brought up the rear.?
Moving on to six- and seven-year-old cars, the ones with the fewest
defects were the same as before, only in a slightly different order
- the Audi Q2 (7.5%), Volkswagen Golf Sportsvan (6.9%), and
Volkswagen T-Roc (6.7%). The list of shame, meanwhile, includes?the
VW Sharan (21.7%), BMW 5/6 Series (22.3%), and Dacia Duster (23.5%).?
The eight- and nine-year-old category shakes things up a little bit,
with the best cars being the Mercedes-Benz B-Class (11.0%),
Volkswagen Golf Sportsvan (10.3%), and Mazda CX-3 (9.7%). The worst
were the Dacia Sandero (27.8%), Dacia Duster (29.8%), and BMW 5/6
Series (29.9%). With 10 and 11-year-old cars, the best were the
Mercedes-Benz A-Class (15.4%), Mercedes-Benz GLE (15.2%), and
Mercedes-Benz B-Class (13.9%), while the worst were the BMW 5/6
Series (32.1%), Renault Twingo (32.1%), and Dacia Duster (34.2%).
Wrapping things up with the oldest cars they looked at in the 11-
and 12-year-old categories, the cars with the fewest defects were
the Mercedes-Benz GLE (19.3%), Mercedes-Benz B-Class (19.0%), and
Volkswagen Touareg (17.9%). Meanwhile, the worst were the Dacia
Sandero (38.1%), Renault Twingo (40.0%), and Renault Clio (40.4%).
Now, if you live in the U.S. like most of our readers, it won't
exactly help you very much to learn that the Volkswagen T-Roc did
pretty well but that you should probably stay away from used Dacias.
But you can definitely avoid the Tesla Model Y, as well as the
Model 3. Unless you just love the idea of buying a car full of
defects.?
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