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Originally Posted by Drisump
IMHO in a few years the cars complexity (and therefore it's cost to repair) and the fact that it will not be state of the art any longer, will likely limit it's resale value. (4-6 year service life..like a laptop?) Cheers
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I made the same parallel in another Tesla thread here. The rebuttal was that everything is modular so it can be upgraded. (Nevermind that laptops are modular as well - you can upgrade ram/hdd/board if you want.)
Great car, and a good move for Tesla to choose the luxo sedan market (where at $80k it is 'affordable'). It will be interesting to see where the market leads on this. As electronics go, newer gets significantly better, and cheaper. In the automotive market, newer items are marginally better and marginally more costly. If the successor to the Model S has better battery tech, more efficient motors, and costs the same or less as the Model S did - I fear the Model S' used value will plummet.