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I'm with you on the air suspension. I have no first hand knowledge of the real difference but since I don't have any steep driveways, etc., I'm now leaning towards passing on it if I don't do the performance version (but still going back and forth myself--well into my configuration window now. ...

I agree that wealth is more important than income in general for a decision like this. But in this case we were asked to make two explicit assumptions: 1) that the person has no savings, and 2) that the entire purchase price will be financed.

Totally depends on your view towards financial margin of safety and your other debt and/or goals. Do you have a mortgage? Other debt payments? Risk to your job? Etc. So only you can answer this question. My advice: if you finance the entire thing, let's just call it $95,000 for lack of a better...

Yes, unfortunately for those of us around here, California is light years ahead of New England! If I were in CA, I'd do the twin chargers.

Personally, I'm not doing the HPWC because I don't see ever needing that charging speed at home, and I haven't found a J1772 in the path of any of my conceivable road trips that operates at more than 30 Amps. So I'm likely to pass on the twin chargers. It may indeed be more expensive down the...

USAA still doesn't have it in their system. Here's the conversation: USAA: "Year, make, and model?" Me: "2013 Tesla Model S." USAA: Pause. . ."Who makes the Tesla?" Me: "Tesla!" They quoted it nonetheless, $1017/yr for a $75k sticker, $1114 for a $90k sticker with a $500 deductible, adding it...

My current car is 13 years old. . .I have a completely irrational tendency to become attached to my cars and not jump to the next thing. Silly, really, but it's not so bad given that I own them for the shallower part of the depreciation curve and not just the steep part. So when I say I'll have...

I've pretty much concluded that I'll need 19" winter tires regardless, so needing those in addition to the 21" perf tires is no longer a hassle factor or incremental cost for me. And I'd definitely do the leather upgrade and probably the air suspension upgrade, so the cost delta becomes around...

Does anyone think there's any validity to the argument that the supposedly better wiring in the performance version will be able to better take advantage of whatever technology/power exists when we all have to replace our batteries in 8-10 years?

Does anyone know whether cleaning the Alcantara will be a problem, particularly with the tan interior? Sorry, showing some ignorance here, but it seems like it would stain easily relative to leather. I may have that totally backwards since it's a microfiber.?.?

Thanks for the repies. @dsm363--I agree switching out the 21" wheels in winter is an absolute must. My question, and sorry if I wasn't clear, was whether we also will have to switch out the 19" all season tires anyway since it's rwd. Then you're swapping 2x per year regardless of whether you get...

Having just re-read this ENTIRE thread, I have to throw one more question out there: given that this is a rear wheel drive car, are those of us who live in bad-winter country going to have to swap to winter tires anyway? In which case, yes, there's still the extra $8-$15k for the P85 (depending...

El Supreme--Thanks for the validation. It's taking a lot of discipline to intentionally miss my window for the td. Were it not for the potential February delivery in the northeast as additional rationalization, it might be too much to bear!

For those of you 8500+ who haven't gotten your emails, your delivery window will probably be March/April. I'm P8189 and my window would be Feb/March, but I'm probably going to slip outside of that window because I'd like to actually test drive it before I make the final commitment (can't td...

P8189--just got my email too. Wonder how big the batch of emails will be. . .

Do any of the early delivery owners have enough miles to make an educated guess on the durability of the 21" performance tires? How many miles should we be thinking we can get in the real world before they need to be replaced? Thanks!

Also my first post, to get the "in moderation" process underway. P8189 still waiting. . .figure I should be in the next batch of emails.