My EDD slid to the right overnight, was 6/18 - 6/30, moved up to 6/11 - 6/30 for a few days, and now back to 6/18 - 6/30.
For those of you frustrated with the Tesla buying experience, the legacy manufacturers are not any better. Allow me to share an anecdote from a recent experience with Ford. My current F-150 lease matures on 6/25, and the dealer started bugging me non-stop to come in to the dealership mid-March, ostensibly to review my lease-end options and inspect the truck; dealer-speak for getting me to buy/lease a new car. I went in for a visit the last week in March to check out the Mach-E and a few other options I might be interested in, this would prove to be an excercise in frustration.
Mach-E - All the order slots are filled for the launch-edition, they offered to accept a non-refundable deposit to secure a car somewhere between 2022 and 2023. They had the first two customer orders on the lot, refused to even let me look at them to determine if my dog would fit in the back. It was clear they had zero interest in selling me a Mach-E.
Bronco - All the order slots are filled through 2023, would not even accept a deposit to place an order. I was told the launch-edition trucks had not begun to be produced due to parts shortages, and the first customer orders were not likely to be delivered until mid-2022. (This means the first customer orders would be waiting ~2 years to get theirs!)
Bronco Sport - Only base-models on the lot, any upper-trim models had to be ordered. Again, offered to accept a non-refundable deposit to place an order that would maybe arrive in 3-5 months. Demanded I agree to pay $2500 over MSRP before placing an order.
F-150 (recently refreshed model) - No Platinum or Lariat trim tucks on the lot, not even a demo truck. Offered to let me place a non-refundable deposit down on an order that might be delivered in 6-9 months, again due to parts shortages. They did offer to sell me a demo XLT trim truck they had on the lot for $8k over MSRP.
They would not have been able to get me any of the above four options prior to my lease maturing and had less firm order delivery dates than Tesla does. They pretty much made it impossible for me to buy a car from them, even had I wanted to. Compared to Ford, the Tesla buying experience has been a pleasure! Apologies for the wall of text, but I hope my experience comforts those here frustrated waiting for their M3s and thinking the legacy manufacturers are any better.
