Renting an Audi Gasmobile: 3 Things I Miss (Massively) from My Tesla Model 3

I needed to lease a gasoline automotive this weekend. I ended up with an Audi Q2. It’s not the costliest Audi in the marketplace. Actually, it’s one of many most cost-effective (round $30,000). Three issues concerning the automotive drove me nuts, with one in all them maybe being partly as a result of automotive being on the cheaper finish of the market however the different two simply being signs of the outdated gas-car period.

The Seats Sucked

That is the issue which will have been due partly to low value of the Audi Q2. Nonetheless, I’m skeptical any Audi’s seats may compete with my Tesla Mannequin 3’s. Tesla’s seats are probably the most underrated options of its vehicles, for my part. Tesla designed and builds its seats in-house, and they’re good. They’re made to distribute your weight/stress evenly in order that no single level in your physique is pushing for too onerous for too lengthy on the seat and ultimately getting sore. Additionally, I don’t know why or how, however they look like the perfect seats for my decrease again. I’ve pushed many vehicles over the previous couple of a long time, and my decrease again routinely will get drained after a short time of driving. For no matter purpose, that doesn’t occur in my Tesla Mannequin 3. Tesla did one thing rather well there. The Audi Q2’s seats? Man, they weren’t comfortable in any respect, and I used to be shortly wishing I used to be in my Mannequin 3 once more. The one upside they provided: if my daughter pushed her toes in opposition to the again of my seat, I acquired an excellent little again therapeutic massage. That solved the drained again downside for a couple of moments.

The Navigation Sucked

I used the navigation in two methods. First, I used the built-in navigation. On the following journey, I related my iPhone to the automotive and used CarPlay. Each choices sucked. I couldn’t do something on the display screen with my fingers — had to make use of the funky controls which take approach too lengthy and are approach too complicated. I had my spouse attempt to get a setting fastened whereas I used to be driving, and it was a PITA for her that just about made us hand over on utilizing the automotive’s navigation system. The factor my spouse was attempting to repair was that the map was zoomed out all the best way for our 2-hour journey and wasn’t zooming in at intersections or exits that I wanted to take. Why that ought to have to be chosen deep within the settings is a thriller to me.

After all, the display screen is fairly small. There’s not house for different stuff whilst you have the nav operating. And my try and placed on the radio whereas utilizing the CarPlay navigation system on the second journey resulted within the navigation disappearing and me needing to restart it. So, I ditched the concept of listening to the radio.

I do know there have been extra issues concerning the nav methods I didn’t like, however there’s no must go on. Not having the ability to work together with the display screen instantly, the display screen being so small, and the issue utilizing the system had been sufficient to drive me nuts and helped to stimulate this text.

Please, simply give me again my Tesla navigation system and touchscreen!

The Drive High quality Sucked

That is one thing that might be comparable throughout gasmobiles. It’s simply how a crappy inner combustion engine (ICE) works. It’s soooooooooo onerous to get the automotive transferring, and it’s so rumbly and loud because it tries to get itself going someplace. It’s regarding, and it’s onerous to inform if you’re pushing on the pedal too onerous or too tender — the automotive’s not transferring, so it have to be too tender; the engine and automotive sound like they’re going to blow up, so it have to be too onerous. General, it’s only a horrible expertise. I used to be so instantly and so strongly lacking my Tesla Mannequin 3, or any electrical automotive after all, and after a few days driving the automotive, I by no means acquired over how gradual and loud and rumbly the Audi Q2 was.

Then there’s additionally the shortage of regenerative braking, which I sorely missed, particularly when the automotive felt like a wild horse attempting to fly ahead or off the street on a curve. And as quickly as you set it into drive, the automotive begins rolling ahead quick — so bizarre.

After all, there have been different humorous issues about driving a gasoline automotive once more — forgetting that I’ve to make use of a key to open it, forgetting the place and the right way to put the important thing into the ignition, forgetting to show the automotive off and take the important thing out, continuously going to the wipers to vary gears (that’s Tesla’s fault), forgetting that the ground within the again seat isn’t flat as a result of tunnel within the center, not having a frunk to place stuff into, and absolutely extra that I’m forgetting now. Nevertheless it was actually simply these three core issues that drove me nuts concerning the Audi Q2 rental automotive and made me want I may drive my Tesla Mannequin 3 once more.

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