The Alpha silver was positively glowing. Look at the marketing shot in San Francisco for an example. I'm hoping this looks dull because of the camera quality and not because of a change in color.
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The Alpha silver was positively glowing. Look at the marketing shot in San Francisco for an example. I'm hoping this looks dull because of the camera quality and not because of a change in color.
Railhawk52
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Anyone know if we've seen these type of wheels in a smaller size? I'm guessing these will be the upgrade from the other design we've seen which seems to be smaller. I'm just wondering if Tesla will allow us to upgrade to this design but keep the rims at 18 vs 20.
Not sure if reliable:
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Almost a hundred Model 3s are undergoing durability and crash testing in central Ohio. Explains all the recent sightings there
Model 3 Owners Club @Model3Owners
Almost a hundred Model 3s are undergoing durability and crash testing in central Ohio. Explains all the recent sightings there
About 128 pages ago, people were discussing the lack of testing. TBF, I've no idea who to compare TRC in Ohio to, but it seems decently comprehensive:
What We Do - TRC
Virtual Facility Tour - TRC
No idea how they test "snow" and "ice" in the middle of May in Ohio, though, unless that happened back in February/March or if they're using a different, more-northern facility for cold-weather testing.
What We Do - TRC
Virtual Facility Tour - TRC
No idea how they test "snow" and "ice" in the middle of May in Ohio, though, unless that happened back in February/March or if they're using a different, more-northern facility for cold-weather testing.
I mentioned it in the other sightings thread, but if you look closely at the silver RC pics and different parts of the body, the alignment and inconsistent gaps are really bad. Frunk, bumper/front left side panel, trunk opening... Hope this is early morning version of RC, otherwise no good haha.
They might be aiming at eye color demographics. The alpha was toward gold a bit - brown eyes.
The RC is toward blue - blue eyes.
There used to be a winter, spring, summer, autumn color matching method...
Looks like they are choosing the silver out of the summer color pallet. Dressing For Success Summer-Shop By Season-Color Me Beautiful
They have to cover the set to make sure people look good in the vehicle.
Silver is usually assigned to summer, with an interior to match.
MissAutobahn
Elon, please ramp up Berlin GF in plaid mode!
I don't know if my question has been asked already:
Will there be an option of full darkened glass dome for sake of the beautiful design?
This would be my question to Franz, if I were one of the lucky visitors to see the M3.
JeffK
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MissAutobahn
Elon, please ramp up Berlin GF in plaid mode!
I meant just in the back of course
the back glas would look so much better without the clear part of the glas
melindav
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Most states in the US require the sides and rear glass to be clear (typically not more than 30% darkened - some states higher/lower) unless an SUV or van that can have the rear and rear sides darker.
plankeye
That Vegan EV Guy
I think this is a good comparison of the prototype and RC silvers:
If they offer the prototype silver (possibly hyper silver) as a multi-coat option, I'd take it in a minute.
If they offer the prototype silver (possibly hyper silver) as a multi-coat option, I'd take it in a minute.
ccutrer
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I'd bet they're the same paint. The alpha just had a butt load of wax, or even a ceramic coating.
Such "comparisons" are useless, as they are taken with cell phone cameras with no control over the lighting conditions.
A useful comparison would be to put those two cars side by side under the same lighting condition and view them with, you know, your eyes.
It seems pretty obvious to me that all these release candidates have been using the current color gamut from the Model S & X, which I'm speculating is what happens for actual Model 3 production to keep manufacturing simple/cheap in the beginning. Not sure why more people haven't picked up on that unless their wishful thinking has them in denial? I suppose there's no harm in dreaming
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stopcrazypp
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True, but from the photos so far, the alpha paint seems to look more metallic .
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