“Delivery in 2025” is as good as “we have no plans whatsoever of producing anything resembling this model at this price”.
Bingo... Bummed I fell for it but I had hope!$61k vs “$40k” for the model that won’t be produced until at least 2025… ouch
I’ll give them the inflation… $40k 2019 dollars is ~$48k 2023 dollars. They’re on their own for the other $13 grand.
Someone more skeptical might think they just flat-out made things up with no regard for reality back in 2019 so they could sit on a hundred million or so of customers’ reservation money for 5 years.
Interestingly enough, it cost exactly what they said it would, not 50% more.
Who was it that set those expectations again? Oh yes, that's right. Tesla.
There wasn't a wormhole between 2019 and 2023. The Model X didn't go through the last 4 years. The CT did. That estimated price doesn't happen in a vacuum and no one should pretend that it did. News Flash: you rarely get everything you want (or everything that was promised) from prototype to production on any vehicle.
So your defense for missing pricing and range targets by more than 50% is "the last 4 years"?
Better analogy: If you tell your wife that in three or four years you're going to build her a 5,000 square foot house on the beach for $200,000 because of unspecified innovations in construction, you were never serious in your claims to begin with. You were just spouting bullshit.
Ah, I see. You just assume malicious intent in someone else's mind as a default. You wanted something and if you don't get it, then obviously, they "were never serious" about giving it to you. Nothing will likely change your mind then. Have a nice day.
