A car is not a one-time use product or easily replaced if you change your mind though (if you bought a car brand new and then sold it tomorrow, you would lose a few thousand dollars), so you do have to look beyond the surface of comparing stats or which looks the best, etc.
Seeing how the Tesla boss has behaved when various journalists made less-than positive assessments of the range of the car is a turn-off, as are the reports of a few of them catching fire when a battery malfunctions.
I probably wouldn't buy another VW in a hurry here either because of the way Volkswagen Group Australia have behaved in recent months in avoiding admitting that there are issues with their earlier dry-clutch DSG gearboxes as found in my 2009 Golf, and then only finally initiated a recall after a tidal-wave of negative press began to affect *them* and their big drop in sales even with the new Mk7 being launched in April). If it didn't affect them I'm sure they still would not have bothered to look after us.