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This Sunday morning is the ETA for mine!

To be clear, I traveled down to Menlo Park earlier this week, and took care of paperwork, inspection, and getting familiarized with my Roadster. I do know it exists and works beautifully. I picked up the license plate for it this morning. All that remains is for it to be delivered up here in Seattle by the contract carrier.
 
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I have mine now so I've moved from 'buyer' to 'owner'. It took awhile, but I've gotta give huge props to Tesla. The car was delivered flawless and exceeded my very high expectations. I'm a software entrepreneur and know that version 1 always takes the longest. But TM has truly delivered great quality here.
 
I agonized for about a month about my Roadster. I could take delivery in April if I wanted to get the 2008 Tesla Roadster (#414).

But I finally decided to take a two month delay and get a 2009 Tesla Roadster Sport. It should arrive in late June or early July.

The tough part was losing a few good months of nice weather in the Pacific Northwest. But this is a car that I plan to keep for years and I really like the changes planned for the interior.

Also getting the faster version of the Roadster Sport was a plus.
 
My Tesla is on the same truck as Dave's. I just spent the afternoon cleaning out the garage making room for it. Dave and I ordered in Oct 2006 so it has been a long wait, but I agree with Barry everyone we have encountered at Tesla has gone above and beyond to make the experience fantastic.
 
Maison Fleury: TESLA #215 First impressions (via JBoss founder to Sun's rescue? |Open Sources | Rodrigues & Urlocker | InfoWorld - you should check the date when reading this one).

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I see that they make slot car motors. I'm surprised he did not make the comparison.

*edit* to add:
He turned up in an old old Tesla blog:
Stuart Koford wrote on April 21st, 2007 at 6:34 am
After 25 years of building all types of brushless motors for application from military robots, to space aplication for NASA, to surgical tools, and artificial hearts, and life and field testing every type of bearing mounting imaginable this is what I can tell you about the bearing spinning problem.
The problem of the bearings spinning in the motor housing will not be solved by switching to aluminum. The bearings must either be epoxied to the housing (preferable with heat cure epoxy) or rubber o rings mounted in grooves in the bearing pocket must be used to prevent any motion between the bearing and the housing. The use of o rings reduces noise especially if a heavy dampning grease is applied to the bearing pocket. Pressing the bearings into the aluminum housing also will not work due to the diffferential thermal expansion between the steel bearings and the aluminum or magnesium housing.


PS.

That's Dustin Hoffman in Doug's picture post above
 
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Another little list that works as a Tesla "Should Own" list (probably 2005):

Remaining drivers of EV1s, RAV4s and Honda Pluses
Tony Shalhoub (recent Golden Globe-winner, ''Monk'')
Peter Horton
Steven Weber (''Wings'')
Glenne Headly (''Mr. Holland's Opus'')
Laurie David, The Detroit Project
Hart Bochner
Jay Leno
Julia Louis Dreyfus
Paul MacCready (designer of Gossamer Albatross and the EV1)
 
_Nice article_
...Skoll certainly realizes that he can use his money in a variety of interesting ways. Unable initially to find someone to manage his personal finances, he started his wealth-management firm, Capricorn. Today the firm is branching into eclectic investments such as lending to midsize health care companies. It's also an investor in Tesla Motors (TSLA) -- Skoll drives a fire-engine-red Tesla Roadster...
 
It's mentioned in the post above that Bill Maher was an Roadster owner. I was watching his Real Time show a couple of weeks ago, when during a discussion on enviromental issues, he muttered almost under his breath, "Piece of s**t Tesla." None of the panel picked up on it and he didn't explain what the problem was. Any clue what problems he's had or why he's dissatified?