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Model X Launch In Oz
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OzSimon
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. PJF you had me there for a second
Do you have any details? If this was Toyota that vehicle you saw would be already here!
Dan43
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Oz Will
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Yes re Melbourne - via email last week (Have had MX reservation since 2014).
Ok same situation for me. Have had long term reservation but wanted to see in the flesh before committing.
Guess will have to wait a little longer.
I have this sense/feeling that the cars I keep seeing showing up at launch or demo events are the same ones each time. I saw some video of a couple of launch events (including Bjorn's video of the demo one's in Norway) and they were both the same as a similar event in the UK. A white one and a red one. I also saw the same blue one which was at car shows turning up to the launch events in other places in Europe (never saw it drive). I suspect they're shipping the same demo LHD ones around the world for each launch event.
mrpseudonym
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Does anyone know the timeframe between launch date and first customer cars arriving in country?
With Model S the first deliveries occurred at the Launch Event but for Model X everyone I have talked to says first deliveries will occur at the end of this year or early 2017.
Here's my prediction (worth 0.2 cents and round down
): a few cars will be delivered to Oz before the end of the year so Tesla can say they made the deadline. Then proper deliveries will start rolling in early next year. With the S they scrambled in a few cars at the end of the year but cars didn't really start rolling in in any numbers until quite a few months later.
raynewman
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Always remember that RHD vehicles are manufactured (typically) during the last two weeks of each quarter then do the move timings on that.Here's my prediction (worth 0.2 cents and round down
OzSimon
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Actually I think I remember reading that they'd made a manufacturing change that didn't force them to do that anymore. Something about they used to have to do a lot to switch the line over but wasn't that way now and someone saw a mix of RHD and LHD S's on the same line.
Dborn
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It turns out that the original sig S cars were here, in storage, from prior to September 2014. Then, since autopilot was released, and those sig cars were obsolete even before the launch, Tesla bit the bullet and offered a rebuild for the 30 or so cars involved, mine was one of them. Finally they delivered them at the launch or shortly thereafter. Mine was, for some reason delayed in production. Never found out why but it took a full 3 weeks on the production line, so the workaround was to deliver my ORIGINAL build at the launch, which I then used as a loaner until my rebuild was delivered on 24/12/14!!. At the time a lot of things on the S were hand made. The paint job for the sig red was done outside the factory, since the regular line no longer produced that colour.
raynewman
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I think a lot of them were sold as demos, I remember being offered a non-autopilot P85+ ready for delivery at a pretty good price as an alternative to buying new in mid-2015.
Dborn
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