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First Model S delivery in Seattle area
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ChadS
Last tank of gas: March 2009
The first Seattle-area delivery was originally supposed to be "mid-July"; they had been hoping to have it for a July 14 event. Then late July. Now...late August or early September. No reason given for the delay.
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ChadS
Last tank of gas: March 2009
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It's probably due to some modifications they decided to make after the test drives started. I'm thinking that any delay will be for just the earliest deliveries of the production run.
My projected delivery date is the same as originally anticipated. I'm near the end of the Signature queue.
Here's the article that was posted after the Seattle event:
Get Amped Tour: News from the Road | Blog | Tesla Motors
My projected delivery date is the same as originally anticipated. I'm near the end of the Signature queue.
Here's the article that was posted after the Seattle event:
Get Amped Tour: News from the Road | Blog | Tesla Motors
how did you do find this out? unreal
Street by street or are you familiar with the Seattle area?
A mix of things. Actually, I look at small details like the power lines, shape of curbs and the street surface material, then I fly around in Google Earth looking for likely matches, then zoom in to Street View to check. Probably about 100 wrong guesses before I hit "pay dirt."
You might notice I had Google Earth in "exaggerated height mode" since the photo was obviously from a steep location, so I could quickly narrow down to sections that had similar height profiles. I spent a bunch of time virtually roaming around the top of the hill near the transmission towers before I realized it could be closer to the lake...
By the way, the street view photo was from 2008, so you can see a lot of changes to the landscaping since then.
ChadS
Last tank of gas: March 2009
As far as I know, this is still true for this owner, who I believe to have the lowest reservation number in the area. But I wonder if some will be delivered out of numerical order, perhaps due to different options? Because I just heard that the Seattle-area delivery specialist (who I met after my Fremont ride) has a truck coming up before the end of July...no word on who the car(s) is for. Come to think of it, no word that there will actually be a Model S in the truck--I guess we will know soon enough.
I feel like a stalker. I saw a white Model S driving on 112th near SE 8th in Bellevue about an hour ago. It was so beautiful. *sniff* It still had the temporary tag in the rear winshield.
I feel stupid because I actually did a double take. I didn't really get much of a change to look at it because I was driving in the opposite direction. Man, I love the LED lights. At some point, sightings aren't going to be a big deal, but I'm thinking that this is the first time I've seen a Model S in the hands of an owner (though I guess I don't know for a fact that it really was a customer owned car).
I feel stupid because I actually did a double take. I didn't really get much of a change to look at it because I was driving in the opposite direction. Man, I love the LED lights. At some point, sightings aren't going to be a big deal, but I'm thinking that this is the first time I've seen a Model S in the hands of an owner (though I guess I don't know for a fact that it really was a customer owned car).
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