Production/Delivery Status

[2blue4u]

More sea of Roadsters:

What's with the windscreen on the foreground red? Cracked?

 

[Kevin Harney]

I believe it is a reflection from above...

 

[efusco]

I believe it is a reflection from above...

I think it's the same white marker that was used on the opposite side of the windshield. doesn't look like a reflection to me.

 

[vfx]

What's with the windscreen on the foreground red? Cracked?

Looks like dripping "ink".

That's a lot of hardtops by the way.

 

[Tdave]

Looks like dripping "ink".

I agree with this. "PT" was written, just like on other windshields in the same location. I'd even speculate it stands for powertrain.

 

[graham]

That's a lot of hardtops by the way.

Yes! and another surprise was the amount of the new split spoke wheels. There were a ton of them.

 

[doug]

Of course, as of Friday, I'll get to see one everyday ;-).

Score!:smile:

 

[graham]

Nuts, SByer - had I been thinking I would have gotten your car number from you ahead of time and taken a picture of your car for you while we were there!

So glad that 2 years later it is finally arriving!

 

[Palpatine]

I got a call Monday, yesterday the 27th, that the car was being loaded on the truck for delivery. It will take a week or more to make it to Maryland, depends on how many other stops they have to make along the way.

They are really humming on production numbers right now if yours is #408. It seems like they are doing more than 20 per week.

I am between 6-8 weeks on getting Roadster Sport #1. It is really getting close to production start date in England, which means that the 2008 model year is almost complete.

 

[Tdave]

They are really humming on production numbers right now if yours is #408. It seems like they are doing more than 20 per week.

They announced doing about 107 in March. Their target through the summer is 120, a rate which they may be nearing now.

 

[SByer]

Tesla has asked me twice if I could pick up the car a day early. Alas, my scheduling is not that flexible. Based on recent pictures, I think the MP store is a little stuffed with cars, an interesting problem to have.

 

[Kevin Harney]

I am sure that in addition to getting the cars out the door and the money in the door part of the motivation may be having the number delivered as large as possible for the Letterman show.

 

[Palpatine]

I am sure that in addition to getting the cars out the door and the money in the door part of the motivation may be having the number delivered as large as possible for the Letterman show.

The motivation may simply be to put up a higher number than March so that progress can be positively reported. Every single delivery counts.

If they were to only deliver 95 Roadsters, people would question what is wrong. Local deliveries are easy and they are likely pushing them to pickup their damn Roadster so they have more space.

 

[graham]

#435 is alive!

This isn't so much a "random" roadster sighting (as it happened at the Menlo Park store). But dpeilow and doug were nice enough to hunt down my car while they were there yesterday. From dpeilow's photostream:

Tesla called yesterday to arrange for me to come pick it up next week.

 

[vfx]

OMG it is real.

!!

 

[SByer]

Tesla called yesterday to arrange for me to come pick it up next week.

Hah, so we still end up getting our Roadsters within a week of each other, just flipped around. Hopefully it'll be sunny on the day you pick it up!

 

[Cottonwood]

My roadster is #433. If anyone can post a picture of it, that would be great. I should be within a few weeks of seeing it here in Colorado!

 

[vfx]

My roadster is #433. If anyone can post a picture of it, that would be great. I should be within a few weeks of seeing it here in Colorado!

What colors are it?

 

[Cottonwood]

My roadster, #433, is twilight blue.

 

[graham]

If no one beats me to it Cottonwood, I will try to hunt it down while at the store dealing with #435