voip-ninja
Give me some sugar baby
If you care about efficiency & range, the LR RWD is the best Model 3 made to date. If they never sell it in the US again, then it should be one of the more sought configurations for people who care about those things.
Buying the LR RWD has worked out great for me so far:
1. I qualify for $7500 federal credit and $3000 CT credit, neither of which is available at those levels to current buyers.
2. Color was $1000 when I bought.
3. Destination+Doc Fee was $1000 when I bought.
4. EPA range is 334 miles, which it easily exceeded in warm temps. In cold temps real-world range is more like 290... still not bad.
5. Does well in snow with winter tires (which would be needed for AWD anyway, because AWD doesn't help you stop).
I was also able to take advantage of lower doc fee, lower dual motor cost, cheaper paint charge on my car. That is offset though by them slashing the base MSRP of the car by around $4,000 to date and lowering the cost of the white interior I bought substantially.
I expect that after 3 years my car, which will only have around 30K miles on it will be worth 50-55% of what I paid for it pre-tax incentives. That means that my $62,000 car will be worth around $35,000 or so and I will have paid a true cost on it of around $50,000 after taxes so pretty good deal for me.
Anyone who is flipping their car for a slightly updated one, or dual motor one or performance version one, is really taking it in the shorts although a few people were able to minimize the pain by flipping their car at the very end of Q4.. assuming they had enough tax liability to be able to take two $7500 tax credits.