Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' (marketwatch.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MarketWatch: Tesla Motors Inc. was dealt a blow earlier this week as Consumer Reports magazine called the Model X, its much-awaited and much-feted SUV, a "flawed" vehicle. Beyond a "brag-worthy magic, the all-wheel drive Model X 90D largely disappoints," the magazine said, citing rear doors prone to pausing and stopping, second-row seats that can't be folded, and limiting cargo capacity. Even its panoramic, helicopter-like windshield won cranky-sounding disapproval from Consumer Reports: It's not tinted enough to offset the brightness of a sunny day, it said. Overall "the ride is too firm and choppy for a $110,000 car," Consumer Reports said. Earlier this year, Consumer Reports released its 2016 Car Reliability Survey and found that, while the Tesla Model S has become more reliable, the Tesla Model X has proved to be unreliable overall.

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Who cares

[markus]

Honestly, who still cares about what Consumer Reports has to say? They are certainly still entertaining, but their reviews have been so flawed for at least the last ten years as to be entirely worthless.

I don't know anything about the Tesla. So, it's conceivable that by sheer luck CR hit on some useful bits of data. But in most likelihood, it's just like all their other publications. Any time I read one of their tests for a product that I'm familiar with, they test some obscure and irrelevant detail and base their entire test on this result. Not surprisingly, good and innovative products tend to fail, and mediocre mass market products get all the praise.

It's been a recurring pattern for way too long

Let's stop with fucking musk

[Anonymous Coward]

Every. Fucking. Day. Musk Tesla musk Tesla.