Yet all countries adhere to model years. Name a country that doesn't register the model year at purchase. The broader point is most changes do not coincide with model years, and these are generally the bigger changes, including your example Highland everywhere else. This has been Tesla's stated strategy that they have used to great effect. Model S update history is a classic example, and since the Palladium update, there's been very little line up with your model year point.
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Model year at purchase simply calendar year in most other countries.
I already gave recent examples of them doing the model year changeover with feature changes.
Wow, you'll say anything. Not true, but you wouldn't know. Have you ever lived abroad and registered anything?
You gave some examples trivial in the broader product update chronology.
So as expected nothing came out of this. No VIN assigned, EDD still creeping day by day. Anyone heard of 2024 VIN assigned for LR model?
Although, with the latest posting about shitake door alignment probably its for the better, I would not have accepted that car anyway.
Yes. I stand by my statement. I know with BMW, production changes are usually rolled out in March and September. In the US the model year typically changes with the September builds. Abroad (at least in most European countries) it’s typical for a September 2023 model to be sold as a 2023 even though the car built right before it on the production line would be sold as a 2024 model here. Similar with the other European makes, though I don’t know if they use September or some other month off hand.
I don’t think the most significant updates to the model 3 since its inception are “trivial”. Model S and X perhaps have a greater tendency to see rolling changes due to the much lower production volume, but even this otherwise minor steering wheel thing to me suggests there’s probably been a policy / culture change at Tesla
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A nice misdirection. I think your statement is actually my statement that some small changes are lined up at the beginning of the year.
Do you acknowledge that many changes are not lined up with the model year?
Then we are in violent agreement. I'm not sure that a horn and a US portion only launch of refresh 3 constitutes "increasingly" but recognize the acknowledgement.
2021 Model 3 refresh? (switch to heat pump, revised interior, power trunk, changeover from chrome to black trim). I think removal of ultrasonics on. the S/X lined up with 2023 if I'm not mistaken, though obviously that was a case where holding out for a change bit people in the ass.
You're reaching. Have a look at all the changes that did not line up with model year. It's much easier.
Most of those are pretty early on or truly trivial.
Certainly for the 3/Y, major changes are historically held back for model year changes thus far. And S/X will probably follow suit (and I would argue have been recently)
Bruh who gives a flying firetruck, this 6 months of wait is killing me more than the model 3 wait some years ago
So now I’m more than ever convinced that they are sweating us out to chose inventory car at new price. Exact same car I ordered can be chosen for “early” delivery and is available immediately at new price. Fcuk that.
I think the facts speak for themselves…and tend to support your observation. Let’s just leave it at that…
Not true, yet again, but we've established you'll say anything. This thread alone demonstrates that truth. 2.5 years ago (June '21) the refresh came out, mid year. 2022 and 2023 tweaks came out at various times, including new matrix headlights added, new taillights, the ultra red paint, a lighter shade glass roof, the tilting middle screen, the addition of hardware 4.0, the removal of the rear T logo and most recently the stealth gray paint - all mid-year. Tesla does not observe model years to make changes - they happen all the time. Sometimes the engineering cycle will line up with year beginning, most of the time it doesn't.
See. This is what happens when Tesla has us all sitting around waiting on VINs. Folks arguinging about stuff that has nothing to do with when I’m getting my damn Tesla.
In other news, reordered 2/1 (MSLR, stealth, cream, wheel) after Nov-Dec saga of ordering, 2023 VIN, 14-day hold, 2023 VIN, cancelling. To be continued…
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