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EldestOyster
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And I'm surprised the car has not changed. They haven't built any more, and they haven't come up with new parts to try. It's not July yet, so those pencils are still in the air.
I don't care how the door handles operate, but I wish they looked like the ones on this car.
I don't care how the door handles operate, but I wish they looked like the ones on this car.
Dan Detweiler
Active Member
Anyone else notice that we have seen the silver car at the Gigafactory and the matte black one on the road a few times. Haven't see hide nor hair of the red one. Also, it was the only one that was not operational at the reveal. My bet is that the red car is the platform they are doing final modifications, and completions on and because it is all hush hush, they have kept the car under wraps.
Dan
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JeffK
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ModelNforNerd
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Or it could have been to show off the paint on a Model 3 body
likely this.
If it was just a shell with no drivetrain..what's to show off about it?
CarlitoDoc
Member
Well, the jokes certainly were appropriate for that age range...OMG.....I did not know I was back in catholic school
My guess was that the red one pre-dated the other two. No drive train, no battery, just the first / early prototype of the chassis and interior. Electronics, drive train, etc. probably on a parallel development track, came together on the other two cars, which would have been a refined version of the red one (with corrections and able to accept the other stuff).
The red car had the M3 door handles so it was definitely newer than the flat black one that had the MS type handles. I think it very well could end up being the Reveal 2 car and will have what the factory cars will have.
JeffK
Well-Known Member
Did we ever see evidence those were Model S handles... was there actual retracting or were they simply chrome?
License plate matches the car seen the day after the reveal.
Mfg plate 63277
Mfg plate 63277
They probably have a bunch of prototypes built already for testing, but the silver and black shown at the reveal were road-worthy at the time and could be driven on and are licensed for travel on public roads (DMV).
This is called "platooning". In 1990s the government ran a project with a bunch of cars on a section of Interstate 15 express lanes north of San Diego. The cars were steering using magnetic sensors in the middle of the lanes, and they ran as a group at high speeds very close to each other.
From: History of autonomous cars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We don't know how they operated but they were shaped like the MS', not the "hockey stick" shape of the M3.
garsh
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That nose doesn't look the same. May be angle but it looks like it points over and curves back rather than the blunt flat nose of reveal.Jalopnik got their hands on a great photo of that prototype with the new wheels, standing still.
They actually appear to be the same wheels that were on the silver prototype, but painted all black.
graphic
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Jalopnik got their hands on a great photo of that prototype with the new wheels, standing still.
They actually appear to be the same wheels that were on the silver prototype, but painted all black.
I'm loving the black version of the M3 rims...With pearl white body, and white leather interior, those rims will make my M3 stand out in the crowd!!!
Pretty sure it's the same car. Artificial lighting and bad angles didn't do any favors for the photos taken during the reveal. It looks much better in person with natural lighting than on stage.
It's a beautifully designed vehicle as is.
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