Sooooo shady for them to not disclose up front that white interiors would not be available on the same timeline as black. If it would have said "white interior may add up to 3 weeks to delivery timeline", I would have passed on it. Hope their couple hundred dollars of margin on those is worth pissing half of us off.
Why even offer it if it wasn't ready to go into production right away? Wouldn't you think they'd produce those FIRST since it's a higher margin car?
I'm seeing all these non-reservation orders with order dates after mine in my region getting delivery dates and VINs, and it all comes down to the f'n color of the dashboard strip and seats?!?
Sorry to rant, but it's like they enjoy messing with us by being sooooo unnecessarily opaque with their plans this close to the end of the tax credit.
What is the point of this rant? Tesla makes 100% of their own interiors and they have the option to make 100% black seats or 100% white seats on any given day. If they so choose, they can fabricate white seats for the next 4 months straight. They have been offering white interiors on their vehicles for at least 2 or 3 years. I'm not sure why you feel this is a problem for them. Are you a day 1 reservation holder who has been waiting on your MR car for the last 1,000 days? You can verify that you put your deposit down in 3/31/2016 for an MR that didn't exist and now you are venting about a production correlation you cannot prove exists ?
Also, why are you incorrectly claiming in your other rant that you lose $7,500 at year end? It goes to $3,750 not $0 at year end.
You are aware that you ordered a vehicle configuration that had NEVER been produced right? With a battery pack that had NEVER been fabricated.... with a drivetrain or parts that are NOT in any other existing model currently right.
If I were you, I wouldn't want to be the guinea pig getting the first beta models of the MR anyway. Wouldn't you prefer the factory workers making $15 or $20/hour train on a few other cars before they do yours ?
Just to make your battery pack work, someone has to code an entirely new fork in the battery management software, vet it, test it and get it ready for production. Literally speaking, this is more detailed work than your local hospital setting your arm bone when it is fractured.
If you have a Motor Vehicle Purchase Agreement that says you will get your MR with white seats, you will get your MR with white seats. It seems to me that the cars "available" are mostly AWD or AWD performance with white interior that have been produced in "spec" batches for inventory and placed around the country. Everything else appears to be custom ordered.
I suspect Tesla probably received 100,000 overseas reservations in the past week alone. They are doing everyone in the USA a 'favor' by not just selling high margin cars overseas.