Reveal Party advance notice question

[jgillispie]

My reservation is from about 20 minutes before the start of the reveal and I live in Colorado. I expect to pay about $40k (far from fully optioned) so I estimate my place to be middling in the pack and unlikely to be earlier than 100k

My understanding mirrors your own, that the more expensive cars will tend to be built first.

I believe(strictly opinion) cars with the most profit margin will be first which means Autopilot and FSD. Software packages are basically straight margin outside of developments costs. AWD is another motor which not only adds steps to the build process, it has a higher cost in materials.

 

[daniel]

Yes (starts at 3:21)

Thanks for posting that. If I have to wait a few extra months to get the dual-motor, so be it. I guess we'll find out when Tesla decides to tell us. I consider my chances very good that next winter I'll be driving my AWD dual-motor Model 3.

 

[david_42]

If the pilot production starts Feb. 20th, holding the Reveal off until the end of March doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

 

[dsvick]

If the pilot production starts Feb. 20th, holding the Reveal off until the end of March doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Since there hasn't been any official confirmation of that, I'm betting it isn't true. However, if the shutdown goes as planned and they get everything done, then I can see pilot production starting soon afterwards - maybe early to mid March.

 

[eisbock]

I hope the rumor of doing RWDs first isn't true.

Where did this rumor come from? I've heard this several times now, and am wondering at what point people forgot about Elon's "highly optioned cars will be built first" tweet.

 

[geoffreak]

Where did this rumor come from? I've heard this several times now, and am wondering at what point people forgot about Elon's "highly optioned cars will be built first" tweet.

I answered this on the previous page.

 

[calisnow]

If the pilot production starts Feb. 20th, holding the Reveal off until the end of March doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Well - it makes sense if they are trying to sell as many Model X/S's in Q1 and they are not ready to start configuring new S/X builds with whatever the "spaceship controls" are that will surely be built into S/X as soon as Model 3 Reveal Pt 3 happens.

 

[eisbock]

I answered this on the previous page.

Yeah, but I've been hearing this "rumor" for months now. That video is only a week old.