I hear you- but I also suspect I have a clue to the answer.
Right now, Tesla is completely focused on the end of Q3 margin performance. As such, they are pushing through all the vehicles with the highest margin. That basically means those with the most options, as those are now where most of their extra margin resides. I also think that they are batching certain types of vehicles together. Thus, they might be doing multi-coat white one week only, or a couple of days only, or whatever. Also I don't think that many vehicles are coming off the line without air suspension, thus that might incur a delay.
Overall if you look at the two configs of our cars, whilst they are somewhat similar in end-result, they seem fairly different in margin potential to Tesla. On top of your config, I am also adding air suspension, sound system, extended Nappa, performance seats, lighting package, Alcantara headliner, fog lamps. I suspect that those items are of relatively little cost to Tesla. hence very high margin. Indeed, they were almost all included on P85 models until the price increase recently. In contrast, I think the pano roof is expensive for Tesla, and hence lower margin, and the paint - whilst not a big thing, is a rarer color and they just might not run the multi-coat white vehicles as often. If you analyze it, there is a face-value 7100 difference in the price of the 2 cars - almost all of which I suspect is basically margin to Tesla. After all, Alcantara is not extremely expensive, and they are using a very high quality imitation leather for the interiors that are not Nappa extended thus the difference between Nappa and not Nappa is certainly nowhere near their option number. The interior lighting is almost negligible in overall cost - almost all margin, and the same goes for the performance seats vs the regular leather seats. In fact the performance seats might actually technically be cheaper! The sound system difference in hard cost is low hundreds of dollars, vs. 2500 up-charge. And the fog lamps are basically a freebie from a manufacturing standpoint.
In other words, I think they are simply making the highest spec vehicles the fastest.... I also suspect that this makes sense because many of the P85 models being ordered are relatively "specced-up" and only differ in terms of the inverter portion of the drivetrain, thus from a "batching" standpoint I think I might have hitched a ride somewhat.
Please take this the right way - I think your config rocks....... I am just speculating as to what might be going on in regards to the vagaries of the delivery process right now.
Also of interest...... When I placed the order online, it said "September" for delivery. If I had ordered the same config but in a P85, it was quoting "Late September". As I didn't want a P85 anyhow, I was not really bothered but it really made me think that even at that point (in late August) there were already "batches" assigned for production that were being used for estimating deliveries etc.
btw. I still have my Volt as well (which btw is an awesome car as well) - but the wait is killing me every bit as much. I couldn't take the risk of selling the Volt first, so I am waiting till I have the Tesla grin fully-functional before doing that.
also btw this might all be nonsense.......there is certainly some random-ness to the production process.
Good Luck! I must say that Tesla owners and owners-to-be (like us) really are a community and one to which I'm very proud that I will finally belong.
