Model X Subsite Updates

[Nubo]

Major change in the web page (finally) is a BIG Deal !

 

[mikes_fsd]

Obviously I hope you are right. They might, however, just be updating the Model S site and keeping the Model X component consistent. I think if there's one thing we know, its that we don't know!

Did you look at the site? Nothing about the Model X page is the same. They gutted it to a paragraph. Meaning new info coming. They would not do that just to put up same exact info that was there a few days ago.

 

[Cosmacelf]

Did you look at the site? Nothing about the Model X page is the same. They gutted it to a paragraph. Meaning new info coming. They would not do that just to put up same exact info that was there a few days ago.

Or they're just messing with us

 

[ecarfan]

how do high-end hatchbacks sell in the U.S. - the likes of Audi A7 - after all, Model S isn't exactly a full-size sedan but a hatchback?

In the US at least, I do not think the average car buyer makes a distinction between a full size sedan and a full size sedan with a hatch. Both are big four door cars with a trunk.

 

[JST]

In the US at least, I do not think the average car buyer makes a distinction between a full size sedan and a full size sedan with a hatch. Both are big four door cars with a trunk.

I'm not sure that's true. The common wisdom in the US market is that big hatchbacks don't sell (remember the Merkur Scorpio?)

I think the A7, Panamera, and Model S have started to change that perception, but here for whatever reason people seem to be fine with SUVs but want their cars to have trunks.

 

[AnxietyRanger]

The wood exterior has been a running joke ... it's not a big thing here, either. (My request for a Hello Kitty interior is also a joke, just in case anyone thinks I'm serious.)

The last instance I can find of any wood exterior paneling is a single vehicle in 1993.

I hoped my extra second smiley would convey that I did get it was a running joke.

Jokes are best explained, right? It was my poor attempt at a play on the current American dislike of station wagons vs. European like of them, the inside joke on wood-paneled Model X on TMC, plus the fact that personally my recollections of wooden exterior come from old American station wagons.

 

[ecarfan]

I'm not sure that's true. The common wisdom in the US market is that big hatchbacks don't sell (remember the Merkur Scorpio?)

I think the A7, Panamera, and Model S have started to change that perception, but here for whatever reason people seem to be fine with SUVs but want their cars to have trunks.

Agreed I think the perception is changing and you give good examples of why.

I used to own a Merkur, which in the US was called the X4ti. I loved the additional functionality and carrying capacity in a mid-size car.

 

[DJ Frustration]

I think something really is brewing. If you change the URL on the Model S Design Studio to mimic what it would be for the Model X, it redirects to the Model X landing page.

 

[hileyms]

I think something really is brewing. If you change the URL on the Model S Design Studio to mimic what it would be for the Model X, it redirects to the Model X landing page.

DJ, why do you think that means something is going to happen. Could it not be that a developer built into the website the fact that if modelx is detected in url then direct to model x 'home page'?

 

[AnOutsider]

DJ, why do you think that means something is going to happen. Could it not be that a developer built into the website the fact that if modelx is detected in url then direct to model x 'home page'?

I think it is interesting that

http://my.teslamotors.com/modelx/design

redirects to

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx

but if you put in

http://my.teslamotors.com/modelx/monkey

you'll just get the Model X page, but the URL still says

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx/monkey

Would seem like there's something at /design and it is executing an explicit redirect vs just a lazy interpretation of the URL.

 

[eepic]

I think it is interesting that

http://my.teslamotors.com/modelx/design

redirects to

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx

but if you put in

http://my.teslamotors.com/modelx/monkey

you'll just get the Model X page, but the URL still says

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx/monkey

Would seem like there's something at /design and it is executing an explicit redirect vs just a lazy interpretation of the URL.

Good sleuthing! I get the feeling Elon won't be able to contain his excitement for the X for much longer, and he's going to start leaking hints to us all if prodded, a la Bloomberg this morning.

 

[Blip]

I did some testing using telnet and raw HTTP GET requests. It seems that /modelx/design redirects to /modelx, but /modelx/whatever simply returns the content of /modelx. Woho. Could it be that design studio opens right after NAIAS?

GET /modelx/design HTTP/1.1
host: www.teslamotors.com

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx
----
GET /modelx/whatever HTTP/1.1
host: www.teslamotors.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
X-Drupal-Cache: MISS
Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:07:51 GMT
ETag: "1421172471-0"
Content-Language: en
X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
Link: <http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx/whatever>; rel="canonical",<http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx/whatever>; rel="shortlink"
X-Server: web01a.sjc05.teslamotors.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Varnish-Server: varnish02b.sjc05.teslamotors.com
X-Varnish: 142157163
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Expires: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:09:00 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:09:00 GMT
Content-Length: 30579
Connection: keep-alive

<!DOCTYPE html>

 

[EchoDelta]

wooden exteriors would have to be left out, though

There have been no statements from Tesla regarding the cancellation, delay or optioning of the wooden exteriors - which suggests it may be provided in the base model, even.

- - - Updated - - -

A dictionary attempt at file names in the teslamotors.com edge CDN cache asset folders where they keep images, sprites, etc may yield this picture. I think the filename (assets_x15_ext_panel_option_selector_black.jpg) is telling.

 

[bxr140]

The common wisdom in the US market is that big hatchbacks don't sell (remember the Merkur Scorpio?).

It's a bit chicken and the egg. Big hatchbacks don't sell because there havent been many big hatchbacks to sell.

I agree that the average American buyer won't make the distinction between 'big sedan' and 'big hatchback'.

 

[robby]

Hate to burst anyone's bubble but /modelx/design has been a redirect for many months if not years.

 

[tom66]

Can confirm it's been a redirect for over a year.

For example: teslamotors.com/roadster redirects straight to teslamotors.com

 

[DJ Frustration]

Hate to burst anyone's bubble but /modelx/design has been a redirect for many months if not years.

Then how is the last modification only today?

Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:07:51 GMT

 

[robby]

Then how is the last modification only today?

That's a 200 response header; all it means is that the page you were redirected to was modified at that time.

 

[AnOutsider]

Guess Tesla isn't all that impressed with what other EVs are doing:

 

[EchoDelta]

Guess Tesla isn't all that impressed with what other EVs are doing:

View attachment 69702

ha!