I’ve Had My Tesla Model 3 For 2 Days and I Already Want My Toyota Camry Back, Don’t Believe Them If They Tell You a Tesla is Better Than a Camry

This article is extremely biased. Sure it shows someone's real world experience with a Tesla, but it fixates on the fact that she dislikes the vehicle without educating herself on it. She made a poor ill-informed decision without checking the odometer, the battery degradation, and the tires. If these factors (and more) are ignored, how can you expect to purchase a used vehicle to operate as brand new? This particular Model 3 was definitely an abused rental fleet vehicle. Just like purchasing a used ICE vehicle, you need to make informed and smart decisions.

Sounds like BS to me. She's probably just in it for the views. Nowhere to put her "car phone" ... ???

How sad she didn’t read up on any information about Tesla 3 cars online. She didn’t even know there is a wireless cellphone charger in the console on all Tesla 3 cars.
I’ve owned a Tesla Model Y for almost three years and use it almost exclusively. My other vehicle is a Lexus comparable to a Toyota Camry. My Tesla is charged at home, something she probably didn’t research or had access to and I have never had any problems with range anxiety even when driving it on long distance trips, one trip being more than 3,500 miles.
My advice is to educate yourself about advantages and disadvantages about owning any electric including the cost of installing a home charger 🔌 which can vary widely depending on your location and what kind of house you live in.

Bought a 17 Acura RDX in March 20. Good car generally. Wanted an electric and contacted broker last summer. Broker implored me if I really wanted an electric vehicle, lease one. High new cost and very rapid depreciation makes buying a bad idea. Only drive 8K miles a year, 62K current odo. Doesn’t make sense to me to replace a working reliable low mileage car with a more expensive unknown car of any age or kind, even though I long to plug my car in my garage instead of the gas station.

I feel that @this.is.not_mariahFoolish is a foolish psycho with a sense of entitlement. She could have rented a Model 3 to clearly understand what she was buying and make a qualified decision. She was lazy and hoped for the best. Nobody forced her to buy anything. It was her decision. Now she should just shut up and deal with it rather than blame everyone else and call them liars. Grow up! People like her are the reason I have little hope for her generation.

I hope she doesn't give the same short time decisions with boyfriends.
She probably hasn't figured out how the car works yet, and us getting frustrated.

Give it a chance girl!

The Model 3 comes with a phone cradle that accommodates two smartphones and charges them wirelessly. The car also has one of the biggest displays on the market, and shows you all the common things you'd want to see on a phone while driving, such as navigation and audio. The navigation system is better since it integrates battery usage, a trip computer that accounts for the specific vehicle, weather, elevation, speed and other factors, and keeps you from ever running out of charge by getting you to chargers. In worst case scenarios it will tell you the maximum speed to drive so you won't run out of charge. So you probably won't need to see your phone but it's still convenient.

That's not to say that there's nothing to dislike about the car. People might prefer different cars for lots of reasons. But not having a place for a phone is not one of them.

Hilarious. Edmunds shows clearly a Model 3 is cheaper at 5 years than a Camry. It also has more safety, acceleration, handling, passenger/cargo space, ADAS. Not close.

Clearly, not taking advice from a 12 year old snowflake.

Camery is crap compared to a Tesla.

Truth hurts, she deserves everything she gets.

She is a 100% certified idiot, sounds like she didn't even drive the car before hand. Where do I put my phone?? duh, it's right in front of you in the center console. She has no experience nor any willingness to learn where anything is or understand EV's are different, all EV's. Stick with the Camry, pay your gas, she probably never does any scheduled maintenance then complains when the car breaks. When I see a left lane squatter driving a Camry, going 69mph looking at Tik Tok, completely oblivious to her surroundings, I'll wave to Mariah.

My boss was looking to get an EV (they already had a Chevy Bolt) and they drove the Model 3 and a bunch of other makes/models, and they told me the Model 3 was terrible. Cheap interior, hated the console, only ok handling. They ended up getting a Ford Mach-e. 🤷‍♂️

Holy propaganda! Like reading an AI generated Reddit post. This made it on google news so *clap clap. The news is dead. Old folks have all the wealth and are easily manipulated. The youth is what the youth always is, ignorant.

She probably should have researched it. there is a place to put your phone (and it wirelessly charges it) sounds like a very misinformed young lady, who is only capable of doing one dish at a time at her dishwasher job. These are highly technical vehicles, once you get past the learning curve they are great.

Well, ... I think she drives 40 miles a day. Because .. it takes 20miles to her job. That means she needs to drive back 20 more miles. So, total of 40 miles. So for inconvenience of charging at her house or charging stations yeah I do understand her pains in a rear. Noone wants that actually. LoL 😂 As for the Hertz rental car discounted Tesla model 3 without warranty ? LoL 😂 it's a trap . Even you know where to exchange new battery it would cost an arm.
People talks about environment and all ? Well guess what ? How many Tesla car ends up used car market after the warranty ends ? Think about it. It's huge. And you might think it's still a car but actually huge big garbage and used up battery on underneath it. Let face it. It's hazardous materials . And for environment ? Naw not really great. We just created another form of trash to the world. And over all is it really environmental ? No not really. That's the bottom line.

This article is so poorly written there is nothing wrong with the model 3. This consumer is out of their mind literally.

There is no cure for stupid. That includes this publication which published this trash.

It's my belief that the vast majority of people who own Teslas are suffering from sunk cost fallacy - they played up how great the car is so that people won't think they were ripped off, and for long enough that they can't tell the truth about it now. I've been in just about every Tesla model ever made except the Cybertruck and the Roadster, all of them have poor build quality and are about as comfortable & fun to ride around in as a dentist office lobby. Sure, a couple versions are very fast, that's about the end of the positives.

What an absolutely terrible article. The thing that surprised me most was the fact you found a consumer this stupid with enough buying power to actually be THIS STUPID. I've owned 3 Tesla's and they've all been great, just not large enough for our family. If they bring a 3-row SUV that has a USABLE third-row to the table (not the X) we'll consider it.

Range anxiety is not comparing the actual usage to the estimated range. It is worrying about running out of charge before reaching your destination.

When the New Mini came out it went to the bottom end of the consumer satisfaction list, behind even the execrable Hummer. Why you ask? "Cup holders won't hold a Big Gulp". Sigh. But Elon is still a dangerous nut job, please buy nothing he claims to make.

To sum up, an uneducated buyer purchases a used car (abused ex Hertz rental picked up cheap by the dealer?) being pushed by a dealer without doing any research to know whether the car is a good fit for their needs and the dealer provided no education and they are unhappy. And, to demonstrate their ignorance and whine about their poor decision making for all to see, they post about it on social media. ROTFLMAO, "I don't have anywhere to put my phone" and the implied "there was no way I could have known that up front." Yep, a story like this has never happened before with a used car/car dealer.

I'm sure some dealer somewhere pawned off a Corolla as a fuel efficient solution for towing a 28' camper and some rube believed them.

Tesla has its problems just like everyone else. Aside from the gap and flush, they are great cars. I can definitely speak on the quality of the drive units and batteries. I worked close with design engineering to solve issues and make improvements. Tesla is the most innovative company I have ever worked for. Some people will complain no matter what.

If this person and story are actually even real, it sounds like she lacks the basic understanding of the world that one should have in order to be piloting a multi-ton piece of steel on public roadways. If she was so stupid as to not google anything about buying an EV before buying one that she was this surprised AND THEN STILL didnt bother to google anything after she started to experience difficulties, (her issues are simple to understand with 5 minutes on google) I honestly don't know what is going to help her in this world other than always running to daddy with anything "hard" in life. Currently, I am fed TF up with Elon Musk's antics, however the tesla I bought 6 months ago is still far and away the best car I have ever owned. I leaning toward this article being completely fabricated.