gregincal
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Scaling from pictures should get us within about 5%. The more pictures, the better. Of course the production version could easily differ by that much anyway.
That's not saying much. The average of all the guesses plus or minus 5% is a range from 166" to 184". Yep, most of the guesses fall in that range.
Here's my estimate, which I believe is at least as good (or bad) as the others. I found this earlier post comparing the wheelbases to be pretty compelling, since it's a single camera capturing both cars:
Using that as a starting point I then scaled Model S and Model 3 side pictures to match.
Scaling for a somewhat shorter wheelbase gives the apparent height to be roughly equal, which I took as a good sign (also, although it's hard to see on the overlay it ended up with the Model 3 wheels being slightly larger than the Model S wheels, another good sign since they are 20" wheels and the picture of the Model S I used has 19" wheels). Then rather than trying to calculate the wheelbase to length ratio (which I have posted in the past I think is quite inaccurate) I calculated the ratio of total length between the two cars. My guess is a wheelbase of about 112-113" and a total length of about 177".
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