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Those are completely different marks, from completely different countries, and completely different aims and feel.

And as someone who drove multiple cars, from multiple East Asian and European marks, I suggest you try drive newer cars, because your opinions don’t match 2024-2025 MY cars from those brands (except for maybe MG, and Toyota, but both aren’t designed or sold for the driving experience. Toyota leaves it for their Lexus brand, and Chinese marks don’t even try to compete on that yet).

Same in the US.

And if you take the car into an unapproved body shop, maybe it’ll get remotely disabled.

Not that famous, as they used to (maybe still do? I don’t follow) force customers into an NDA in order to warranty fixes.

Siri, what is selection bias?

We're talking about different numbers: I was discussing build/buy, you have some partial numbers about who you buy from.

But that wasn’t my point. My point is that Tesla buys the parts and assembles them. They don’t build the parts. Just like VAG for example (who also assembles, and doesn’t build. They’re actually pretty interesting because they insist on multiple vendors in multiple regions for each part)

You are conflating the wrong thing. A simple thing isn't necessarily better or easier to quality assure.

This lists country of origin, not manufacturer of said components.

The ability to have devices that are considered unfixable fixed by Chinese tradespeople is amazing.

But you can’t get that ROW, and for Chinese car companies to be successful outside China, that’s a must.

Tesla manufactures/assembles about as much as any other western car company.

The hauling capacity is equivalent to a minivan, even if the footprint is bigger.

Try to get spare parts for teslas. Or fix them at a non-Tesla owned shop. Both are 100x more complex and expensive than any other mass produced car made in the last decade 20 years. And it is like that by design: it was never a priority for them.

What about hardware? If a part breaks, how long do you have to wait for a new one? (Insurance costs for Teslas are extremely high because parts take so long to acquire).

How often does it break? (Tesla notoriously don’t use automotive quality parts, which reduces costs, and increases MTTF).

And who can fix it? Can you get service manuals for it?

Not every car is a Hilux, notorious for being extremely fixable, but every serious car manufacturer had a whole infrastructure for serious after sales support.

Tesla is still not there, and by choice. That was never a priority for them.

Not just US auto makers. Modern car companies don’t manufacture, they assemble (and for a pretty good reason, but I digress).

Minivans are extremely popular in the US, when lifted and with the roof removed from the back.