Model 3 Mule Sightings

[Matias]

What's with the duck butt spoiler, that looks weird.

Must be aerodynamics over aesthetics.

 

[ohmman]

Oh, I'm not advocating teaching manual transmission nowadays. But back in the day when my kids were learning to drive, they were still around. Plus my older son had his heart set on a used sports coupe (he paid for most of it) and it came with a stick. I was just citing that as an analogy for not getting a new driver too dependent on a specific technology that isn't universally available with other cars they may be called upon to drive at any given time.

Yeah, I've got about 5 years. Driving a manual vehicle will be a must-learn skill in my view, but I'm hopeful that autonomy is getting solid or is at least a huge part of safety features on vehicles.

 

[ModelNforNerd]

Oh, I'm not advocating teaching manual transmission nowadays. But back in the day when my kids were learning to drive, they were still around. Plus my older son had his heart set on a used sports coupe (he paid for most of it) and it came with a stick. I was just citing that as an analogy for not getting a new driver too dependent on a specific technology that isn't universally available with other cars they may be called upon to drive at any given time.

True, and good point. Since my wife and I don't have kids yet, I'm thinking there will be a seismic shift in how we "drive" by the time any potential spawn have to get behind a wheel. So just within my own lifetime (I'm only 40), things will have changed A LOT.

 

[N5329K]

Taught my daughter to drive in the Triumph two years ago. The car is very, very manual (transmission, brakes, etc), and so she has a much better idea about speed/energy management and how cars go than she would have had learning in a pod/barge.
Robin

 

[Matias]

In these pictures I see two screens, but maybe the other is drivers laptop

source Tesla Model 3 release candidate spied, looks more like a Model S

 

[tracksyde]

It almost looks like it could be the guy's phone sitting sideways on the steering column

 

[VIKING26]

I noticed that the blue version is missing the "T" logo center wheel caps. Clever disguise.

 

[ccutrer]

we're already miles ahead of where I was learning to drive.....


in ~17 years, there might be absolutely zero reason to learn what a stickshift was for.

in 1993, my dad insisted I take my driving test on a stick.

Um yeah. My wife does not know how to drive a stick, and it has not been a problem. Definitely not going to be a problem 17 years from now. I last drove a stick about 11 years ago, and that was only to take a spin in someone else's car.

 

[Weezer Fan]

This one may have a few different pictures:
Tesla Model 3 Caught Completely Undisguised, Showing Interior

 

[Candleflame]

I'm sure it's all the angle and the Model 3 nose being lower. BMW design cues with the elongated kidney grilles and headlights make it look wide too. Plus 3 series are bloated pigs now. 3 series has been dead to me since the E36/46 days.

9:30 hehe. and 11:40

 

[cdub]

This one may have a few different pictures:
Tesla Model 3 Caught Completely Undisguised, Showing Interior

THose are the same... but that guy must be selling them to everyone now. $$$

 

[ModelNforNerd]

Um yeah. My wife does not know how to drive a stick, and it has not been a problem. Definitely not going to be a problem 17 years from now. I last drove a stick about 11 years ago, and that was only to take a spin in someone else's car.

We sound kinda similar. I haven't driven a stick since 2003. And I'm not sure my wife even knows how.

 

[Chopr147]

It almost looks like it could be the guy's phone sitting sideways on the steering column

Oh, boy! Can you imagine this car crashing because he was playing with his phone? Blame it on Autopilot!

 

[shrspeedblade]

View attachment 221534 View attachment 221535 In these pictures I see two screens, but maybe the other is drivers laptop

source Tesla Model 3 release candidate spied, looks more like a Model S

With that color and that side profile I see, "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"

 

[ModelNforNerd]

I am a fan of that blue.....

 

[Twiglett]

so that looks like at least three cars.
One black with C pillar sensors
One black without C pillar sensors
One blue
I'll have that blue one please, unless you have a white one

 

[Garlan Garner]

View attachment 221534 View attachment 221535 In these pictures I see two screens, but maybe the other is drivers laptop

source Tesla Model 3 release candidate spied, looks more like a Model S

Is that black area on the rear lights - the charge port?

 

[Xevex]

so that looks like at least three cars.
One black with C pillar sensors
One black without C pillar sensors
One blue
I'll have that blue one please, unless you have a white one

I'm dying to see the midnight silver metallic version. It looks damn sexy from the model3config.com.

 

[S3XY]

View attachment 221534 View attachment 221535 In these pictures I see two screens, but maybe the other is drivers laptop

source Tesla Model 3 release candidate spied, looks more like a Model S

It almost looks like it could be the guy's phone sitting sideways on the steering column

Or is it a display mounted where the cover was missing from the steering column on the black car?

 

[gregincal]

Or is it a display mounted where the cover was missing from the steering column on the black car?

Could be some sort of diagnostic display.