I have been reading posts about what is supposedly a large inventory of used and CPO cars, so out of curiosity i took a look. (I am not on the market myself, as my Model S lease has more than a year to go.)
What struck me right away was the lack of cars in my favorite color, multi-coat red, the color of my own. Among the "New inventory," there isn't a single red car in any configuration! I found this startling. Was my own car that rare a choice?
So I looked at my second choice, silver. Again, not a single car in silver. That is less surprising because the color has been discontinued for a while. Then I tried white. None of them, either! In fact, the ONLY color that seems to work is black! Can that be right? If so, it seems weird to me, that all the new Model S inventory would be black cars. (And all are 90Ds, to boot.) Do you suppose that means that Tesla wants their inventory fleet to be black? or that people have bought all the other inventory cars and no one wants the black ones?
So then I looked at used cars. When i select red, the only cars are either RWD, or performance models. No cars like mine -- non-performance AWD with battery packs of any size. Adding silver, there was one 90D a few more older cars with RWD.
I guess I can only conclude from this that my car preferences are very unusual! Otherwise I would expect to see more cars in these colors. (Well, except I have to admit there are many red performance cars. So perhaps what is unusual is to like red but not performance models...)
I don't know what I will do when my lease is up, but if one of the possibilities is to buy an inventory car, I hope there are more color choices then than there are now...!
What struck me right away was the lack of cars in my favorite color, multi-coat red, the color of my own. Among the "New inventory," there isn't a single red car in any configuration! I found this startling. Was my own car that rare a choice?
So I looked at my second choice, silver. Again, not a single car in silver. That is less surprising because the color has been discontinued for a while. Then I tried white. None of them, either! In fact, the ONLY color that seems to work is black! Can that be right? If so, it seems weird to me, that all the new Model S inventory would be black cars. (And all are 90Ds, to boot.) Do you suppose that means that Tesla wants their inventory fleet to be black? or that people have bought all the other inventory cars and no one wants the black ones?
So then I looked at used cars. When i select red, the only cars are either RWD, or performance models. No cars like mine -- non-performance AWD with battery packs of any size. Adding silver, there was one 90D a few more older cars with RWD.
I guess I can only conclude from this that my car preferences are very unusual! Otherwise I would expect to see more cars in these colors. (Well, except I have to admit there are many red performance cars. So perhaps what is unusual is to like red but not performance models...)
I don't know what I will do when my lease is up, but if one of the possibilities is to buy an inventory car, I hope there are more color choices then than there are now...!
