Great article about a TMC regular and his Model S

[brianman]

You may have to scroll around the Sign In popup. If you're fast, you can click the page 2 link:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-tesla-car-zoom-20130106,0,1839685.story?page=2

 

[gg_got_a_tesla]

Should we now list Todd Burch over on the celebrities-with-a-Model-S thread?!

Nice piece; congrats, my fellow Illini!

 

[Todd Burch]

Thanks guys...I was about to post the link and was amazed to see you'd already posted it!

A few factual errors/typos/misunderstandings as probably all newspaper articles have, but not bad!

The actual paper has a large story on page 6 of the front section of the Sunday paper. Given that the readership of this paper covers a fairly large area of southeastern VA, this ought to be good local coverage.

 

[ToddRLockwood]

Tesla comes to town: Smithfield man has the first Tesla Model S in Hampton Roads - dailypress.com

Great job, TB. It's always nice when they get the details right.

 

[bonnie]

Well done, Todd!

 

[Todd Burch]

The actual printed story is on page 6 of the front section of the Sunday paper--almost a full page, with 3 large color photos. Pretty good placement for a semi-local paper.

 

[GeekGirls]

Very cool article, Todd, and no more inaccuracies than I've come to expect from every story where I have some first-hand experience. It's the nature of professional journalism that deadlines make it inevitable. All in all, it comes across as a balanced article presenting both the upside and some of the drawbacks while making it crystal clear that the former outweigh the latter if you can stomach the price.

You may have to scroll around the Sign In popup. If you're fast, you can click the page 2 link:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-tesla-car-zoom-20130106,0,1839685.story?page=2

Thank goodness for Safari's developer mode. A little judicious editing of the HTML after the page loads made it possible to read at leisure.

 

[dsmith2189]

Very cool article, Todd, and no more inaccuracies than I've come to expect from every story where I have some first-hand experience. It's the nature of professional journalism that deadlines make it inevitable. All in all, it comes across as a balanced article presenting both the upside and some of the drawbacks while making it crystal clear that the former outweigh the latter if you can stomach the price.



Thank goodness for Safari's developer mode. A little judicious editing of the HTML after the page loads made it possible to read at leisure.

after you close the popup you can navigate to the first page of the article from the menu
News > Isle_of_Wight > A Tesla comes to town
to get to page 2 of the article I had to resort to using the IE developer tools to chop up the script and prevent the popup.

 

[jerry33]

I read the article (Safari) without any drama. Don't you guys use popup blockers?

 

[Al Sherman]

Very nice article!

 

[NEWDL]

Very nice article!

We did the same both in 2009 with our roadster and a few weeks ago with our S!

Maybe we should start a forum to encourage reaching out to local papers and collect links to articles?

 

[brianman]

I read the article (Safari) without any drama. Don't you guys use popup blockers?

It's not a real popup. It's an in-page faux popup.

 

[Zzzz...]

In Firefox you just need to disable JavaScript, Alt key --> tools menu --> Options --> Content tab --> remove checkmark use JavaScript.

Then you can read it. But do not forget to restore it back, JavaScript is useful on many websites.

 

[jerry33]

In Firefox you just need to disable JavaScript, Alt key --> tools menu --> Options --> Content tab --> remove checkmark use JavaScript.

Then you can read it. But do not forget to restore it back, JavaScript is useful on many websites.

I had Javascript enabled and didn't have any problems (didn't try FireFox).

 

[Owner]

For those waddling on the 19s vs. 21s: The 19s look better in person, believe me!

I waddled over to the 21". I think the 19" look good, and look really nice in your newspaper story photo. The 21" are just so sweet, I managed to justify them as I think the tires will be cheaper than my roadster. <fingers crossed>. And I don't have two tiny kids like you do.

 

[NuclearPowered]

You put in the time washing and it shows. The picture looks sharp!

 

[rcsting]

Todd, great article with a lot of positive information !!

 

[Todd Burch]

You put in the time washing and it shows. The picture looks sharp!

Thanks! I had to wash it again today because there's another interview tomorrow morning with the Smithfield Times. Today I took the time to actually full-on wax it.

I just wish they'd shown a rear view with the hatch closed--my favorite perspective of the S.

 

[Todd Burch]

Interview with newspaper #2 is complete. Expect the story either this Wednesday or next.

 

[Grendal]

Equities.com picked up the story and I read it there. No pictures there though. The only glaring mistake I saw was 250 delivered with 13,000 reservations. Overall well written article that was very positive toward Tesla and what it is trying to do.

Very well done, Todd.