$35,000 Model 3 SR is back! *

[GenSao]

According to Car and Driver, the base price of the Model 3 Standard Range (SR) was recently reduced by $400 back to $35,000*. "The Model 3 Standard Range is available to buy only at physical Tesla stores and cannot be ordered online like other versions of the electric sedan."

* Note, Car and Driver includes the $1,200 mandatory destination charge in their price in the article.​

 

[bay74]

Wish the sans-AP version were available in Aus'. Or the rear-wheel-drive long range...

 

[WilliamG]

Oh look. Another week, another Tesla price change.

 

[MXWing]

Tesla is getting cheap press for 400 bucks.

 

[TomServo]

wonder what they removed to drop the price?

 

[TomB985]

Oh look. Another week, another Tesla price change.

People constantly complain about that on here, but it's extremely common in the industry.

"Build and price" a car on your favorite manufacturer's website, then go to the dealer and look at some window stickers. Good chance it won't match.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

wonder what they removed to drop the price?

Margin.

 

[Tony_YYZ]

wonder what they removed to drop the price?

The frunk, probably. I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[super20g]

If they are not pushing the SR at all and generally anti sell it when you try to order, I wonder why they dropped the price back down. Odd.

 

[duanra]

They removed the Full Self Dying ? ;-)

 

[Bill Foster]

If they are not pushing the SR at all and generally anti sell it when you try to order, I wonder why they dropped the price back down. Odd.

I’d think it’s to appease the idiots who scream about Tesla advertising a 35k car but the real price was higher. I dunno. Maybe

 

[WilliamG]

People constantly complain about that on here, but it's extremely common in the industry.

"Build and price" a car on your favorite manufacturer's website, then go to the dealer and look at some window stickers. Good chance it won't match.

That logic doesn’t apply here at all. There’s no dealer.

 

[Pkmmte]

That logic doesn’t apply here at all. There’s no dealer.

Exactly. Which is why price changes are much less common, yet people still make a big deal out of them.

 

[SMAlset]

Oh look. Another week, another Tesla price change.

I keep hearing on my radio advertisements for different car dealerships having summer sales on their vehicles. Same in print. What's the difference?

 

[davewill]

It actually makes sense with them lowering the SR+ price a while back. It also brings the announced SR to SR+ upgrade price of $4500 a little closer to the purchase price difference.

 

[TomB985]

That logic doesn’t apply here at all. There’s no dealer.

I’ve never heard of a dealership modifying a Monroney sticker, have you?

 

[WilliamG]

I keep hearing on my radio advertisements for different car dealerships having summer sales on their vehicles. Same in print. What's the difference?

Huge. How often does Apple change prices on its own devices from its own web site? Not often. But Amazon/B&H, Best Buy etc? They have sales on Apple products all the time.

 

[GregRF]

The frunk, probably. I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Software lock.

 

[vickh]

It actually makes sense with them lowering the SR+ price a while back. It also brings the announced SR to SR+ upgrade price of $4500 a little closer to the purchase price difference.

so there's a still a post delivery change penalty? a la carte option for just AP?

 

[davewill]

so there's a still a post delivery change penalty? a la carte option for just AP?

The SR, is currently $35K, the SR+ $38,990, a difference of $3,990. Upgrade from SR to SR+ is $4500. AP is $3K to add whether before or after purchase.