Too Fugly To Love? THIS May Be The NEW Face Of The 2017 Model S

It's really a shame.

I'm obviously not a fan of Tesla, but at least the Model S wasn't putrid to look at. They've succeeded in making a reasonably gook looking car look terrible.

Its a challenge to "refresh" a handsome but basically non-descript model from a new brand without any design legacy to speak of. And no, Falcon Doors are not now a design legacy.

This is really ugly.

As Mr McGuire says to Ben in the fantastic 1968 movie "The Graduate":
"..Plastics, ....there's a great future in plastics. Think about it, Ben. Will you think about it?.."

The entire vehicle (and also the Model X - which I all of sudden started seeing in NYC last week by the way) is starting to look like a large piece of "Tupperware".

Plastics, the future is plastics!

Everyone wants a Tesla that likes just like everyone elses plain Jane car.

Everyone wants a Tesla that looks likes everyone elses plain Jane car.

It doesn't really look like a luxury vehicle, does it?

My friend has owned a Model X for a few months and it really has been a bad experience. The car at the service center right now to fix a bunch of issues, e.g. the doors and trunk only open with motors and have a tendancy to hit walls, ceilings and other vehicles and cause damage. I sure would not buy a Tesla until they have their quality issues sorted out.

You friend's clear lack of depth perception doesn't constitute a quality defect in the car..........user maybe.

supermoto: My Audi Q5's hatch opens with a motor, too. The user manual and online instruction videos tell you this, and they also describe how to set the maximum opening height, so as to avoid harage hitting roofs, open garage doors, and other overhead hazards. I *assume* Tesla has a similar feature.

FWIW, if I ding my doors or hatch while opening them, when with a motorized door, I would not blame the manufacturer and call it a defect. I'd be accountable for my own experience and chalk it up to lack of operator awareness and foresight.

@TheSteve @W208 -- the "falcon doors" in the Model X are supposed to avoid hitting things. Those doors were/are one of the big selling points to the Model X, and they delayed the car by over a year, so it's definitely a "defect" if they are hitting cars, garage doors, etc. TheSteve, while I am sure your Q5 is a nice car, and you're very proud of it based on the number of times you've mentioned owning it, your motorized Q5 hatch is the same kind pretty much every SUV since 2011 has, and your traditional non-powered non-falcon Q5 doors are the same kind pretty much every car has had since cars were invented, and Audi did not make the same "our doors/hatch avoids obstacles" promises for the Q5 that Tesla did for the Model X.

I'm not talking about the rear hatch door hitting things, i am talking about the driver and passenger doors hitting other cars and walls. And the falcon wing doors doing the same thing. There is supposed to be some kind of sensing system to prevent this but it fails to work on a regular basis. And you can't even open or close the doors by hand, you must use the motor, and if it hits things, oh well.

To summarize, when I asked my freind how the Model X was after a few months of ownership, his exact quote was "It's had a lot of problems."

Tesla has no experience building competent cars.