Trev Page
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A few quick comments:
- I'm going to call it: Congratulations to JST for winning the bet. Obviously the Model X we see here is the same as the mules we have seen since early 2015 and thus all the related analysis has been more relevant than expected. It is even more the same than most of us expected inside, the front interior was already seen on the mules and not on loan from a Model S. Also confirmed is the crossbeam-less front, the adaptive spoiler and the lighter falcon wings design seen on the late-2014 update email, all discussed on TMC already since last year.
Ok, so what have we learned from this given the Model S prototype and Model X prototype exteriors?
ANSWER: What Tesla shows is 99% what is going to go into production which is what I've been saying all along. Now that we have a firm understanding on how they work, when speculation about the Model 3 prototype being shown and eventual mules being driven around we won't all start speculating again that Tesla is "hiding" some different design in the catacombs just to fool us.
For the life of me Elon's I can't understand why some of us took "we will always deliver something better than what we show as prototypes" or "we won't show the final car until deliveries begin" as being "what we show will look different when it goes into production". Such is life in the Tesla PR vacuum I guess. Anyhow, I can reiterate that it's the *interiors* that change with Tesla prototypes and eventual production vehicles, not the exterior.