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Took delivery of X100D last week. Now, 0.5 sec. faster. Naaaah won't loose sleep over it. Car is plenty fast. Besides, I've noticed you get used to the performance rather quickly. I would have been more upset if I just bought HW1 and a week later HW2 was announced.
If you have been watching Tesla, this is not unexpected ... a few reasons below.
1. Typical End of Quarter sales push followed by another upgrade announcement.
2. Further product differentiation between the Model S and 3 prior to the July reveal.
Older cars are every bit as good as they were when purchased. You have nothing to complain about!
Here is a prediction: newer cars will continue to improve relentlessly. Drive your car and enjoy it, because it's not a piggy bank.Unexpedected crushing current owners values time and time again?
With no dealerships tesla relys on current owners to help raise their stock price.. I mean sell cars.
Their strategy can prove counter intuitive, but so far they are best game in town. In 2020.. we will see what the competition brings.
They could have done a rolling upgrade announcing a "Sport" mode, and charged people nominally more.
Unexpedected crushing current owners values time and time again?
With no dealerships tesla relys on current owners to help raise their stock price.. I mean sell cars.
Their strategy can prove counter intuitive, but so far they are best game in town. In 2020.. we will see what the competition brings.
So you are annoyed that Tesla is upgrading the cars over time, while not charging more for them? You would rather that new owners paid more, so older cars stay more relevant?
It's for new car only, and I believe they stoped making 90d anymore.Interesting, so what about the 90D? I know it isn't available for purchase, but that isn't cool for us 90D owners now....
Took delivery of X100D last week. Now, 0.5 sec. faster. Naaaah won't loose sleep over it. Car is plenty fast. Besides, I've noticed you get used to the performance rather quickly. I would have been more upset if I just bought HW1 and a week later HW2 was announced.
Apart from other manufacturers don't release multiple model years randomly throughout the year?This is no different than any other manufacturer coming out with a new model year.
I think it is in Tesla's best interest to make the best car they practically can. If someone wants to buy a less impressive car for less money, there are at least 100 other options.Yes! Because at the end of the day I want Tesla to succeed (Even though it may not sound that way a lot of the time )
So while @b team may suggest the cars should not be seen as piggy banks, the lease companies will. If residuals get hurt it will affect the actuarial stats at the point of off lease vehicles, which in turn will lead to a knock on to higher monthly payments offered by the lease co's, as they reduce predicted final values.
Equally Tesla have a large number of these piggy banks sat on the forecourts of their stores. So while the new sales boost some optical numbers, these boosts for quarterly delivery numbers have real cost for Tesla when they crystallise those piggy banks back into cash on sale as a CPO/Inventory vehicle.
So my view is it's short term-thinking, that simply pushes risk further down the line. Hopefully this passes when they get into Model 3 production and Tesla mature.
What kind of discount can you get on inventory cars? Had I known, I may not have ordered mine.
What kind of discount can you get on inventory cars? Had I known, I may not have ordered mine.
I think it is in Tesla's best interest to make the best car they practically can.
Historically this has been true of their top flight cars. (P variants) For the non P's it's been suspected by many they have been holding back on making the best car given the hardware for marketing reasons. This is just more grist for the mill.
Of course making the best car, and maximising your revenue, by ratcheting enough people up into bigger batteries and AWD they would not of otherwise chosen via better 0-60 times, have to be in balance. Tesla are still a business not a charity.