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What you have to take into account in 2021 is that many brands have done their best to give people it feeling to indicate that cars brake well, are fast and steer quickly. Tesla has a fairly neutral design that the harder you brake, the harder you brake. That’s not how cars have been made for the last 10 years.

Many brands, including Kia, VW/VAG and all 300 sub-brands, Opel/Peugeot, partly Toyota and Volvo, but also especially BMW and Mercedes on the cheaper models (BMW 3/Mercedes C and below) have been competing with each other for create that illusion. They do this by setting the engagement point of your brake pedal quite aggressively and abruptly. This gives the impression that the car has very good brakes. You only notice that this makes no sense in practice when you start taking measurements. A Tesla (and some other brands such as Mazda) do not participate in that. So someone who is used to aggressive braking experiences the brakes in a Tesla (and Mazda) as worse, while that is not the case at all. That’s why you get this kind of response.

They play the same joke with the motor behavior. As much torque as possible as quickly as possible, you have completely lost your power a few more revs, but this way you fake a kind of power from a 3pitter. BMW does that pretty well, but that makes them restless.

They also do this with steering behaviour, which is actually a dangerous one, because the car reacts faster to the driver and in case of distraction, the car also swerves faster and more aggressively. Especially that I think goes too far with many modern cars. Fortunately, that disappears a little bit now that more electric cars are coming from new brands or with a new vision, but an ID.3/ID.4 still does this quite irritatingly.

You get descriptions like;

Every Model 3 feels cumbersome and heavy, brakes are underrated especially when you have to anchor firmly on the highway. Weight light relatively high. And the center of gravity too

Just because someone is used to faking the other brands. Very sorry. It is in fact complete nonsense, because with a Tesla the weight is very low in the car and the car behaves accordingly. But because the steering is not so aggressively tuned and the dampers do not intervene so hard seems for someone who doesn’t know much about cars the opposite, just like the brakes don’t brake like they’re always making an emergency stop. Dirty game from the automakers. What many drivers do not realize is that this is terrible for co-drivers such as children. This greatly contributes to motion sickness. Especially if small corrections on the highway are too noticeable. I went from VW to Mazda for years and no one is carsick anymore. I drove Model 3 for half a year in between and no one got carsick there either. Borrow Audi A4? Yep, it starts again.

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