I'm keeping an open mind but I think we'll be waiting at least until the 29th before finally pulling the trigger. BTW, reason for cautious optimism this was in the email last night:
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"...even more practical than a typical SUV in every way" possibly means something more than we're seeing here so far.
Reality distortion field, anyone?
But just in the interest of full disclosure - I'll be holding on to my reservation until I can test drive the real thing.
Because let's face it - the Model S has many shortcomings. Yet it's the most amazing car (err, two cars) that I've ever owned.
So maybe I will convince myself that I really didn't need all this space and that the falcon doors make sense and all that...
I posted the two pictures in the other thread, but I'll do it here, too, because I think it so sums up what I'm thinking:
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That is a point I've visualized for a while ... thinking how they may believe this is better than folding flat because you can put tall things there.
That's one way of looking at it...
[update: Note sure why they didn't hang that front wheel over the edge of the 3rd seat. Looks like there is 1.5' there.]
I think because they don't want to rub people's noses in the fact that this isn't a flat surface as we were lead to believe...