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Model Y LR built in Giga Austin!!
- Thread starter ddhir
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EVer Hopeful
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I thought all Ys had the heat pump. That it was only hit and miss on the 3
This site provides a very important service to its members who own Teslas. Much of the knowledge I have about my vehicle comes from this site. It’s especially important since the manufacturer has abdicated any responsibility to support or interact with its customers.
Where i feel it’s inconsequential is in its impact on the esteem of Tesla as a company. The few thousand folks who frequent this site don’t influence the few billion who are interested in Tesla as a company and innovator. Some members seem to feel that there is a shadow movement to infiltrate this site and bad mouth Tesla, and that this is gonna somehow adversely impact the company. That’s just hubris. What we say on this site is important to us, and how we interact with our vehicles, but it’s not to the outside world.
There are definitely those that think so, and although I am not one of them, I can tell you with 100% certainty (as in, I am not guessing, based on what I see as a mod here) that there definitely 100% are people who join here and attempt to "social media shame" tesla for some reason.
Whether its effective or not, I have no idea, and frankly dont care enough about the topic to try to figure that out. What I DO know, from my own personal experience in having to deal with it, however, is that it is not uncommon (at all) for people to join here simply to try to spin some story or other. This site is large enough that spin here WILL reach other blogs (many of whom read here or even participate here).
What I am not debating is, whether this is impactful to tesla or not. I dont know, and dont care. I do know there are tons of people who think it is, and the site is large enough that "publicity" here definitely reaches out elsewhere on the internet (just like other publicity like "I saw on facebook groups that XXXXXX" reaches here).
ok, it's time to get a pool going on how many first time members we'll see in the next week, all claiming to have VINs for Austin LRs.
Second axis of the pool will be how many established members will do the same.
Yeah well you can believe it or not, but I've been on order since November and the VIN popped up in the app today after flucuating from anywhere from January 22 to Feb 23. It settled around July last week then the VIN showed up today. The VIN in my screenshot is different.
Would you like my social security number? What would prove it to you anyways? All I can do is screenshot.
ZenRockGarden
Active Member
I believe this is unicorn-number-5 who also just so happened to join this board a handful of minutes ago.
Clearly anyone who wants an Austin MYLR simply needs to wipe their long standing board presence, wait for the unicorn to land in their backyard, and then join to announce what they're getting next week!
ZenRockGarden
Active Member
and like all other unicorn-owners, you've never once joined nor posted here until this one thread, today.
We all hope you have actual unicorns to ride next week. The correlation between account-is-19-minutes-old and I-have-a-unicorn is pretty astonishing, especially when set alongside the hundreds if not thousands of well established users on here who have reservations but for some reason didn't win the unicorn lottery
ZenRockGarden
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This exact question has been asked in this very thread, and answered with trivial reference to the fleet of fake Austin-MY postings from earlier this year who were all frauds.
Given proven frauds exactly like this in the past, what's YOUR theory on why people do it?
I’m not sensing a lot of zen from this particular rock garden.
Just a whole lot of mad people that think posting here somehow gets them special status at Tesla.
I too made an account when I saw the original post and wanted to provide what I had heard as well. I know you won't believe anyone until we actually see the new MYLRs (hopefully next week!)
I have lurked here off and on for a year while researching and debating placing the order, but I never had anything of use to contribute since I'm not a Tesla owner...yet. I debated creating one of the weekly "what accessories should I buy???" threads, but used the search function instead.
I imagine the other "unicorns" are in similar situations. As soon as my SA told me I was getting a LR from Austin, I immediately went to google since I didn't think they were producing those yet. Hence where I, and many others it seems, found this thread.
Same with me, these types of car forums are so useless to me, especially when I already have a Model 3, I don't have any questions about Teslas that need answering and I'm not so obsessive I have to troll the forums while I wait.I too made an account when I saw the original post and wanted to provide what I had heard as well. I know you won't believe anyone until we actually see the new MYLRs (hopefully next week!)
I have lurked here off and on for a year while researching and debating placing the order, but I never had anything of use to contribute since I'm not a Tesla owner...yet. I debated creating one of the weekly "what accessories should I buy???" threads, but used the search function instead.
I imagine the other "unicorns" are in similar situations. As soon as my SA told me I was getting a LR from Austin, I immediately went to google since I didn't think they were producing those yet. Hence where I, and many others it seems, found this thread.