I've been waiting to jump in the Gold Star samba line for the X reservation, but the family has a 10 month sabbatical in NY city next year and while I will take my young children there, I couldn't bear the harsh depredations of NY city driving and parking on an S or X...
If there is any credibility in Jan 2015 for approximately the 8,000th X, then that would mean working backwards roughly a July 2014 start date and Bonnie has hers for the country's birthday instead of for her own birthday. With the similarities in platforms, manufacturing, NUMMI and an existing prototype, I've wondered about a 24 month gap between S & X...maybe it's $....but what if - and this is pure, unadulterated dreaming - the convertible bond holders convert to stock, freeing up about $500 million from debt on the balance sheet, and Elon announces an early launch for Model X??? Would be quite something to see those 4th of July fireworks from Bonnie's 2014 Model X. Let the Samba line begin (early I hope).
It would be interesting to find out who told #8000 the info...it goes against Tesla's recent history of under promise and over deliver.