Right, I think we're all on the same page on this. I think the emphasis was more on the lack of opportunity to test drive the vehicle than on the pros and cons of the car. They also took away the option to return the car, so we're taking a leap of faith that this $100K shoe will fit. Put together, hassle of having to resell the car is shifted to the customers, which in a normal world would have been avoided by test drives.
I think we agree that Tesla's making the optimal decision to be delivering one of these to one of us waiting in line, rather than dedicate a bunch of them to sales centers for test drives. So my comments are not complaints, more commentary on the situation.
Luckily for me, my wife who will be the primary driver is WAY less picky than I am. If somehow she can't adapt to it, my mother is more than willing to take it off my hands
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