Anybody else got the feeling that Model 3 orders are about to ‘go viral’? The leaked news inspired me to grab some shares in pre market. I figure that the current date likely represents peak FUD, and to hear that this had not deterred 50k new car buyers shows great resilience.
As the stock rebounds, confidence will rise and the order rate will rise. There are countless anecdotes in this forum of owners ‘selling’ cars to passengers. That effect grows proportionately to the number of Teslas on the street.
But Tesla can only make them so fast? True, but as the order book grows, the wait time drives impatient buyers upmarket to secure a car sooner. They add options to their 3, or switch to S or X. Margin climbs.
I’m excited for Tesla. Sad for where BMW is headed. Germany gets my vote for GF4, for stability.
For me, Model 3 best car ever. Okay, I've owned several 240z, an rx7, the 300zx, porsche 951, several 911s now that you'll not pry from me because they are air cooled and NOTHING will touch them... it's not about 0-60 in that department at all. It is more of the grass roots aspect of the car, very much the same reason I lover the model 3 right now. But we also own benz and audi. We've been down the toyota, lexus path as well. Yes, plush customer wait areas and loaners when getting service. Uhg. I am a gear head at heart, have made bio diesel, own two diesels now, burn fuel at race tracks when I get the time to do it. Yes, carbon footprint balance now that I own a LR AWD 3. But I'm not fretting over maintenance like I am with the fleet of ICE cars. Sure the diesels have torque and range. We use them for the long trips when hauling the family as a whole. The 3's not for that. The 3 is in-town, around town, to the beach and back, to the mountains and back, conveniently always charged and ready to go... we share it all day long. But I am going to road trip it New Jersey to Florida... because I can. The route is lined with Super Chargers. I know I can recharge in 50 in between 4 hours of driving.
About the stock, in long as well. I personally feel the bankers and shorts are SC*()@AGs. It is a free market and we can work both sides. They are smart and able, game on. Unfortunately, no clear way to get to each as to how I really feel. I get the share holder return thing and I also get the fact that bankers are expected to profit. But what other disruptive industry have they worked so hard against? The whole VW diesel thing was a joke. Most all Cummins diesels today blow far more pollutants than my Jetta TDI did. Why didn't the EPA go after the US manufacturers as they had with VW group?
Anyone in the industry should be ashamed to publish the nonsense they are writing about Tesla. Many don't own a Tesla or know first hand how different of a company this is. It's not a cash cow business we've been milked by for years.
My writing wanders, feel free to pick at it. I'll not care or bother to reply.
to me they were right the old model of buying , repairing , fueling , selling , polluting, destroying the planet was not for me so i was not and ICE guy but I am a "BEV guy" ...they too after riding in Model S are left with the feeling of missing out ... i know they are trying to figure out how to purchase a Tesla ... time will tell
