Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you’ll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.
Um is it legal to have the wrong side drive vehicle? In the US you have only have right side drive if it’s a certain age, ie a collectible.
Btw the article doesn’t say they think it’s a good idea, it’s more of a joke.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think the 25-year import rule in the US has anything to do with what side drive the car is. It was a law passed in the 80s to shut down gray market imported cars. Importers would buy cars from countries where they sold for much cheaper than the US and then resell them for way less than official dealerships.
The law would’ve been targeting left-hand-drive vehicles, so the right-hand-drive stuff is just a byproduct of it. I mean, the US government had all of its postal service trucks built to be right hand drive.
The issue was also heavily lobbied by Mercedes. It wasn’t about profit loss, it was about people importing base and utilitarian Mercedes vehicles. Think cloth seat sedans and offroad unimogs. Mercedes fought this imports in order to uphold their prestige as a luxury manufactuer. They refused to import those things
Oh I don’t know, but it’s a good effect. But postal vehicles have a specific need for that.
It’s legal. Before brexit it wasn’t uncommon to see French vehicles on British roads - most of Europe drive on the right after all.
Even after Brexit you are of course allowed to travel to the UK with a European car. This is still not uncommon lol
Is it illegal to drive a left-hand drive car in the UK? Not at all. As long as your car is legal in other ways, it’s fine to drive a left-hand drive car here.
Tesla is such a joke of a company lmao, cant understand why there are still people fanboying over it
I would have killed for one five years ago… Today, I have no interest.
While I don’t buy that a great CEO can turn a whole company around, I DO think it’s safe to say that a bad one can damage a good company.
I thought this was a link from the onion at first. What are they doing LMAO
Cool, guess I’ll buy a different EV then.
Holy shit, I thought it was a parody article.
Wow. I wonder if anyone will actually accept that. I guess other markets with right-hand-drive like Japan, Hong Kong will get the same deal.
Tesla has plans to start production in India soon. I wonder how they’ll cope up in India which also predominantly has left hand drive.
The long tail of global colonialism ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
Also, while not entirely accurate, an even older history, ahem, driving, the modern world http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Without India I suspect Driving on the Left would be relegated to history books by simple economics.
Though with EVs a lot of the production costs of doing both could be eliminated.
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Seems like it’d be awkward and uncomfortable to steer with that thing but I guess you get used to it.
I genuinely can’t tell if the headlines are satire these days
That basically sums up everything that comes out of the emerald baby’s fanciful brain farts. A walking joke that has gone on so long that the sad manchild has to do ever more expensive corporate stunts mixed with decade-old cringe humour to stay relevant. After all the shit he’s pulled lately, I’m not even surprised any more.
I can’t imagine that at this point it would be a good idea to invest in anything this clown has his fingerprints on.
No finglonger? What is this? Amateur hour?
Well … at least it’s … well it’s something
i guess thats better than nothing … apart from the negative press they are getting.
Well at least it’s cheaper than keeping an LHD option!
Tesla bascailly pulled the S and X out of the UK market and from what I’ve seen on the forums people aren’t interested in a left hand drive car. Not even sure why they even offered to sell them, unless they were worried about being sued by all the people with deposits.
How can this be legal in the EU? Will they just stop selling in Ireland? I know the insurance bumps up for left hand drive I know that… This has to be a joke right?
