It just illustrates what priorities Tesla sets. They are expensive cars yet their quality is low both in and outside. For example the interior lining of the doors is easily damaged, just moving a cardboard box against it rips it. This doesn't happen in my 11 year old BMW and it isn't even a top of the line model, just a bog standard 116d.

If they don't put the car together well for the parts you see, how well did they put it together for the parts you don't see?

Do panel gaps really matter? Probably not, but if I'm paying Tesla prices, maybe?

> Why does everyone suddenly care about panel gaps?

There's absolutely nothing sudden about people caring about panel gaps on new vehicles.

Cockeyed panel gaps are a tell-tale of a used/bodged vehicle, this has been the case my entire life. It's the last thing you want to see on what's supposedly a new vehicle, and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

My two vehicles are 20 and 24 years old. Neither have panel gaps. If they were able to do that decades ago, why not now?

Because normally they are a given

People note frictions.