My bet as well. I suspect there's a lot of "Who's Tesla? <web research> Holy f! Honey, come here. <reserve>" going on.
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Model S Reservation Tally
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I don't know... MTCOTY is awesome, but I think there are more people who were fully aware of the Model S and considering it and were pushed over the edge by a potential price increase into putting a refundable 5k down than people who hadn't heard of the car before and are going to suddenly decide to purchase a ~$70k car. We'll never know. Just my opinion, etc...
Kind of looks like the spike started before any mention of the price increase, but it's difficult to tell from the graph.
The price increase has only been known for few days. The spike started a few weeks ago when the big car awards went to the Model S. Effective advertising at its finest.
Also on Forbes, which could be argued as more main stream: Tesla Model S Price Hike Appears Likely, Analyst Notes - Forbes
felixtb
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hi treker. congratulations and welcome to the forums. you see the discussion above. why did you make a reservation now? because you finally heard of the car and went for a test drive and or because you heard that the prices were going up and you rushed to test drive and plunk down the reservation money? or maybe a combination of the two? and did they at all mention that the price will go up shortly??
FYI - I am #14,401 and reserved 11/22. I have been a long time follower of Tesla but the main reason I choose to jump in now was not because of the recent awards themselves - I knew the car was a game changer - but because of the masses of people who were now going to learn about the car and would be jumping in - making the wait even longer than what I had been seeing and anticipating. I think there may be some "hey wait a minute, I have been here longer than you and you are not going to get in line in front of me..." going on. On another interesting note, since I deposited on Thanksgiving day the topic came up at our annual familiy dinner of friends and relatives. Of the 30 people in attendance, none of them had even heard of Tesla. They do now but they won't be getting a MS before me...:biggrin:
Krugerrand
Meow
Well, I know what you were thankful for. :wink:
So, how many of those 30 people did you *sell* a car to?
Thanks felixtb. I'm a nerd (or so I like to think) and had of course been following Tesla it was really the MT COTY award that made me sit up and look and get the wife interested. We've been in the market for a new car and were looking at the Audi A6 but when we test drove the S it was head and shoulders above the Audi and the cost would not be too much more when you factor in the fuel savings. So selling it to the wife was the final hurdle which the test drive helped clear
We also drove the Nissan LEAF but the 70 miles range is a no go. We do have a goal of becoming a fully EV family within the next 3-5 years. Maybe the Model X or the 3rd gen.Peaked a lot of interest - I think at next years gathering there will likely be more than 1 MS in the family or on order...
jstoneman
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PeterW
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How did you get that number? Last known US numbers that I`m aware of is 14,401 from 22. nov, 14,480 on 23. nov and 14.582 on 24. nov. This is about 90 per day, but it`s too short period to conclude. Far from 300 even though EU`s not included
PeterW
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I did not mean 300 per day. We looked one day ago and total net was just under 15900, now it is 16200.
You got it wrong, kind of
EU R reservations was updated from R83 Jan.4 2012 to R269 Nov.25. That is around 0,5 EU Rs per day this year.
PeterW
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The numbers still went up by 300,, whoops ok 243, in one day. JuJu:smile:You got it wrong, kind of
EU R reservations was updated from R83 Jan.4 2012 to R269 Nov.25. That is around 0,5 EU Rs per day this year.
Right you all were. I called them today and it's being adjusted to a regular production model. Oh well! Now the long wait begins.
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