Model S ... the key packaging

[tdelta1000]

Did any get a good pictures of the Model S key package? If so share. Also, does anyone know what type of material is the key box made of...?

 

[tdelta1000]

At this point I take no one has any picture of the Model S key packaging.

 

[favo]

I'm pretty sure you can see the box in the 6/22 event video when Elon gives the key to Jeff Skoll.

 

[Robert.Boston]

It looks like brushed aluminum to me, with a black flocked interior with two indents for the keys. This is taking another page out of the Apple book -- make the packaging part of the experience.

 

[AnOutsider]

Do we know our keys will be the same? Those could have been show for the event.

 

[gg_got_a_tesla]

Do we know our keys will be the same? Those could have been show for the event.

I'll throw a fit if Tesla treats us riff-raff differently

 

[NigelM]

I'll throw a fit if Tesla treats us riff-raff differently

I'll throw a fit if Tesla treats the riff-raff the same :wink:

 

[W8MM]

I'll throw a fit if Tesla treats the riff-raff the same :wink:

Depends on one's notion of what constitutes riff-raff. If one put a deposit on a Roadster in 2007, but didn't sign up for the Model S Signature series because of pre-announced lack of preferred options, is one considered riff-raff?

 

[AnOutsider]

Depends on one's notion of what constitutes riff-raff. If one put a deposit on a Roadster in 2007, but didn't sign up for the Model S Signature series because of pre-announced lack of preferred options, is one considered riff-raff?

Then, said one, would be rewarded by being on the roadster friends and family list no? They'd get their car earlier. Anywho, this is off-topic, but a topic that might warrant some discussion (treatment of the different "tiers" of reservation holders). If there is more discussion to be had on this, I'll split it to another thread.

 

[NigelM]

Depends on one's notion of what constitutes riff-raff. If one put a deposit on a Roadster in 2007, but didn't sign up for the Model S Signature series because of pre-announced lack of preferred options, is one considered riff-raff?

Of course, I was joking with gg_ ; but it's been said elsewhere that Sig Series has to have some benefits.

On topic: I don't need some expensive box that will be tossed in the garbage. I'd just as soon receive my keys in recycled cardboard.

 

[jerry33]

I don't need some expensive box that will be tossed in the garbage. I'd just as soon receive my keys in recycled cardboard.

The expensive box will add to the value of the car years from now when it's sold as a collector's item.

 

[Arnold Panz]

I don't need some expensive box that will be tossed in the garbage. I'd just as soon receive my keys in recycled cardboard.

I'm willing to try out the fancy packaging. It works for Apple, and if I had to guess they're trying to emulate that experience, or the experience of buying a really expensive watch where the box and packaging are part of the whole cache and experience of ownership. I could see, if it's nice enough, holding onto the box and then bequeathing it to the next owner (OK, not me because I'll never sell it, but others might!).

 

[brianman]

@Arnold - To your children, then.

"Today's the day that your father gives the 'the box'. Try to at least pretend it means as much to you as it does to him."

 

[tdelta1000]

I'm pretty sure you can see the box in the 6/22 event video when Elon gives the key to Jeff Skoll.

I agree but I still would prefer a close of the entire Model S key package.

 

[tdelta1000]

I'll throw a fit if Tesla treats the riff-raff the same :wink:

LOL!!!!

 

[tdelta1000]

The expensive box will add to the value of the car years from now when it's sold as a collector's item.

Yeah...good possibility.

 

[tdelta1000]

I'm willing to try out the fancy packaging. It works for Apple

This is so true.

 

[NigelM]

The expensive box will add to the value of the car years from now when it's sold as a collector's item.

Ummm, if there are 20,000 of them they won't be a collectors item.

 

[jerry33]

Ummm, if there are 20,000 of them they won't be a collectors item.

Assuming that the box comes either with the car's VIN or the OP's name engraved it will. Most of the 20,000 will be either lost or damaged--even by those who intend to keep them over the next 35 years. (IIRC 35 years is about when a car starts becoming a collector's item).

 

[NigelM]

Assuming that the box comes either with the car's VIN or the OP's name engraved it will. Most of the 20,000 will be either lost or damaged--even by those who intend to keep them over the next 35 years. (IIRC 35 years is about when a car starts becoming a collector's item).

If most will be lost or damaged, all the more reason not to waste natural resources.