Merc Dealers?
I wonder if they've considered placing a few cars at select Mercedes Dealers?
I still get a lot of: "What kind of car is that? I've never heard of it before." and "How did you get that, I thought they weren't delivering yet?" and "I thought they were only available in California".
Clearly, they are not getting marketing penetration to an awful lot of potential car buyers.
So, now that Daimler owns a stake in Tesla, why not place a few cars at a few dealers and see what happens? Especially in places where Tesla doesn't yet have a store and may not for quite a while.
Worse case is Tesla gets a lot more exposure, the dealerships get a lot of traffic with people just coming to gawk (and possible driving off with a new Merc). Best case is they pick up a few impulse purchasers, who would never have the patience to place and order and wait several months. There are probably lots of those folks out there, I bet they could move 500 cars a year at least.
I wonder if they've considered placing a few cars at select Mercedes Dealers?
I still get a lot of: "What kind of car is that? I've never heard of it before." and "How did you get that, I thought they weren't delivering yet?" and "I thought they were only available in California".
Clearly, they are not getting marketing penetration to an awful lot of potential car buyers.
So, now that Daimler owns a stake in Tesla, why not place a few cars at a few dealers and see what happens? Especially in places where Tesla doesn't yet have a store and may not for quite a while.
Worse case is Tesla gets a lot more exposure, the dealerships get a lot of traffic with people just coming to gawk (and possible driving off with a new Merc). Best case is they pick up a few impulse purchasers, who would never have the patience to place and order and wait several months. There are probably lots of those folks out there, I bet they could move 500 cars a year at least.