Anyone got any update as to when we can place a order for a model Y in the UK? Must be soon that they want our deposits to help with expansion.
Where it says "stay updated" ... Nothing will happen before then so you might as well join the queue.
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Anyone got any update as to when we can place a order for a model Y in the UK? Must be soon that they want our deposits to help with expansion.
I spoke to someone at West Drayton on Friday. They said they would come from the Berlin factory and expect them to arrive in UK end of 2021. Didn’t think to ask when they’d be available to order.
Interesting stat!
I think that the European Model Y, which will benefit from the huge castings, plus 4680 batteries, would allow Tesla to use the reduced cost to reduce the price to compete with the ID4 and similar. That's if they feel the need to. Doesn't answer your question, I'm afraid.
That combination of rear and front castings plus structural battery pack are predicted to bring improvements in construction costs and build quality and consistency but I wonder if it will affect insurance costs ... because repairability looks like it's going to be zero even in a moderate shunt. (Totally off topic for this thread ... sorry ... I'll get my coat now ...)
I have been pondering the idea of buying a MY when they become available in the UK, but wondered where the UK price might end up.
In an effort to get a feel for how the land lies elsewhere, I compared the list price of a LR MY as a function of the LR M3 price in the same country, just to see if the relative prices showed any consistency. Guess what, they didn't. For interest the range looked like this;
Spain 121% (MY price as % of M3)
Belgium 110%
Germany 117%
France 129%
Italy 119%
US 107%
Canada 108%
So, unhelpfully, I have concluded it will be somewhere between 110% and 130% of a M3, in other words, I still don't have a clue.
Does anyone else have a clue?
That combination of rear and front castings plus structural battery pack are predicted to bring improvements in construction costs and build quality and consistency but I wonder if it will affect insurance costs ... because repairability looks like it's going to be zero even in a moderate shunt. (Totally off topic for this thread ... sorry ... I'll get my coat now ...)
What about RHD Y from China?
The comparisons probably don't take into account regional incentives that may be stepped depending on price and Tesla usually price this into the figures you see. As an example a M3 LR is really just under the 50k here but appears to be just under 47k because of the incentive, whereas the MY LR will almost certainly be above the 50k threshold so no incentive. If a similar scenario happened in the US then the after incentives comparison would be, 47 to say 55 for the MY whereas the before incentives would be 50k to 55k. Hope that makes sense?
Another thing that may make a difference is where the UK MY get made. If they don't build RHD cars in Germany, we might not get the newer battery packs promised which may mean ours are cheaper and more in line with the US and Canada 10% price increase rather than the European 15-20% increase which have the newer battery tech priced in.
I really can not see a MY below 50k unless its a SR+ model
I'll take that bet.oh oh, are we placing bets?
I'll go for LR @ 49k base