manitou820
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That brings up another point: if mr impatient wants to plunk down his $115K to buy the top end Model S, he's not going to be eligible for the $7,500 Federal tax credit, because the loaners will be "used" vehicles. That's probably ok for the truly rich "I can't wait I need instant gratification" types, but it won't result in a huge volume of new sales to worry about... Most of them will probably wait the 4-8 weeks for factory delivery (they didn't get wealthy by squandering their money).
Also Tesla will have taken that $7,500 Federal tax credit, since they will be the registered "owner" of the loaner cars.
The should be able to keep the loaner cars under "demo" registration. I bought my Volt with 5500 miles on it. It was a dealer demo that had for 9 months. I received the $7500 tax credit.