Happy to take you guys for a test drive if in the LA area. Car is in the shop, but when I get it back. Most happy to offer test drives.
....This is how it used to work.
When I ordered my 1st Model S, Q1 2014 there were no cars to test drive. I had a client that had one, he threw me his key and I drove it for the remainder of the day. That night I placed my 1st order. Three Model S's, 2 ModelX's and 2 Model 3's later. Here we are.
I suspect every car being built is sold, so there's no surplus of cars to test drive.
Very surprised there were no cars to test drive in 2014! In the LA area, especially.
My experience was quite different.
I began looking at Model S in 2014 myself, and I was easily able to take my first test drive from a mall store in the summer of 2014, here in Massachusetts. My son wanted to check it out, too, so we had another drive during the Christmas week at the same store. Both of those were short drives over what must have been standard, prescribed routes.
Not yet convinced, I rented one from Hertz at SFO when I was there on business one day in the Spring of 2015 (it was a 2012 P85).
Then the 70D came out, in April 2015, and I thought that was what I wanted, so I wanted to drive that car specifically. One of my concerns was the ride quality on the steel coils versus the air suspension in the rental car. By then (June 2015) there was a service center and store in my own town (Dedham MA), so I went there a couple of times to look over the cars and discuss questions with the sales people. Once they knew what I wanted to test, they set up a date for a ride one or two days later. Believe it or not, they arranged for a 70D to be brought up to MA from a store in NY (Mt. Kisco, maybe) because the local store lacked a demo unit that matched my preference. I was (and still am) amazed they did that, but the sales guy shrugged it off. We went for a long ride, wherever I wanted, for an hour or so, on a beautiful day. I tested the ride on all sorts of pavements and decided I could live with the coil suspension.
The other thing I was unsure about was whether to spend the money for the audio system upgrade. So I brought in a thumb drive and they let me listen to music in two cars, one with the standard system and one with the upgrade, so I could decide. (I decided against the upgrade, which I now somewhat regret.)
The 70D was certainly not their most expensive car and yet the sales people went out of their way to accommodate me. I was not pushy, they were just very generous with their time.
Those were the days....
