Tesla all-electric car on Top Gear

Sekula · 2010-08-22T15:38:04+00:00

What a disaster it turned out to be!! 55 miles per charge when raced around the track. 16 hours per recharge and about 200 grand here to buy. I think I'll stick to my trustyworthy, fuel efficent, clean running Prius.

Aug 22, 2010 24 Replies

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Elmo P. Shagnasty 15 years ago

well, I buy Apple products, too. Macs and Airport all around the house, and even a couple of iPods (one a Touch).

I buy the products that make my life easy, products that make sense.

But not everything they do makes sense. Let's start with the hockey puck mouse, shall we? And I never, ever "got" the AppleTV. It was aimed squarely at what Apple considers its target market: people with more money than brains. And frankly, I just don't get the iPad. I really don't know what problem it was designed to solve. And frankly, although I do understand the iPhone somewhat, it's not that big of a deal to me.

Keep in mind, much of the "have to have" mentality that drives the copycat stuff is the result of Apple marketing. When will the industry learn that's it's not ONLY about making cheap gear that geeks will want to fiddle with; it's also about marketing. Spend the money there, and watch what happens.

Unfortunately for the rest of the world, Apple has a big lead on technology marketing expertise.

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Neo 15 years ago

The Netbooks, iPhone and iPad is an attempt to make access to the Internet more portable by shrinking the size of the notebook or by integrating the internet access into a cell phone.

However, once the internet access small enough to be an accesory-like device - Apple Marketing positioned their product as a jewelry-like accessory which Sales then charges jeweler-like prices. And yes - I concede once again Apple jewelry is a fashion statement. :-)

Apple differ from Toyota in that Apple is focuse only on the he high end market to maximize its profit margin. Rather than limit themselves to the high end luxury market, Toyota created a separate luxury brand Lexus. During development one of the requirements was that the Prius be affordable because Toyota was focused on seizing the bulk of the hybrid car global market. Which means that in 2009, Toyota was targeting to sell the Prius for about or less than $25,000 each. At the Prius' price range, only 2010 Honda Insight comes even close.

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Michelle Steiner 15 years ago

Not true. You can buy a 2GB iPod Shuffle for $59. An 8GB iPhone is $99. And the iPad starts at $499, although before Jobs announced it, industry pundits predicted it would cost twice that amount.

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Elmo P. Shagnasty 15 years ago

um, no it's not.

It's $99 plus ($80 x 24), which is $2019.

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