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One of the recent finds I found super interesting was a thread about the cars Tesla owners upgraded from, and how much more or less they paid compared to their previous car. If it is representative, it shows that Tesla owners, for the most part, massively upgraded when they switched to Tesla.

Of the ~100 responses there right now, I only spotted one where the person had spent more money on their previous car. A ton of the responses show people spending $30,000 to $80,000+ more on their Tesla (or first Tesla) than on their previous car. That’s pretty shocking.

One thing that tells me is that people see Tesla’s cars as far superior to any other cars out there, and so good that they are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars more than they ever expected to spend on a car. It reflects why Consumer Reports recently called the Model S P85D “an automotive milepost…that paves a new, unorthodox course.” (Note that the P85D “broke” the Consumer Reports rating system by scoring 103 points when the maximum should be 100.)