I bought a Model 3 in 2018, a Y in 2020, and another 3 in 2024. The end user design has only continued to get worse on various aspects of the car. Regarding non-safety issues, living in the northeast and mid-Atlantic, the door handles freeze shut during the winter and become impossible to open from outside of the car.

But why continue to buy these poor end-user design experiences, you think? My car maintenance costs since 2018 has been a gallon of windshield wiper fluid and new tires. So I deal with poor design decisions.

But the cup holders in the latest Model 3 may be my breaking point.

My car maintenance costs since 2018 has been a gallon of windshield wiper fluid and new tires.

If you're buying a new car every two years, you could get the same low level of maintenance with an ICE Toyota. Or, you know, you can buy an EV from a company that knows how to make a door handle, and still get that low maintenance of an EV. There are many to choose from.

You can use the app to open the door if the handle is frozen. Still not a great design, might as well have a button instead.

>My car maintenance costs since 2018 has been a gallon of windshield wiper fluid and new tires

Just to be clear, you keep buying stupid and poorly designed cars to save a couple hundred dollars on oil changes? Which are the ONLY maintenance item you need to do on any brand new ICE from purchase to about 100k miles?

You repeatedly purchase brand new, luxury priced, "new car premium" priced cars to save a few hundred dollars?

Uhhh.... What?

My ICE car's entire maintenance budget since I purchased it 5 years ago has been about $300 worth of oil changes, once per year, and Europeans claim that's way too often.