The Menlo Park sales/service center

[DaveD]

As for the Dodge Magnum, it was there for just a couple of minutes. Some people stopped to take a look at the Roadsters.

I was staying at a nearby hotel, and so was in the area of the Store several times Sunday before I left, and I noticed that there was a steady stream of people stopping to take pictures, gawk, etc. It was a pretty busy place for being closed!

 

[doug]

Tesla Motors Opens Second Store in Menlo Park, CA - MarketWatch

The Tesla Store Menlo Park is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM to 6PM and Sunday 12PM to 5PM. Test drives are available by appointment only.

Tesla's first Northern California showroom opens Tuesday in Menlo Park - San Jose Mercury News

[Tom] O'Leary [Menlo Park store General Manager] said the Los Angeles store takes one reservation a day, and predicts the Menlo Park showroom will do about the same amount of business. Unlike typical showrooms, however, a Tesla test drive requires a $5,000 deposit, so he expects a lot of looky-lous.
Tesla is leasing the Menlo Park building, Niazmand said, and spent less than $1 million on the remodel.

 

[dpeilow]

Tesla Roadster's Photos - I Can Has Tesla Roadster? | Facebook

 

[vfx]

Cool shot.

It linked to these:

Tesla Roadster | Facebook

 

[doug]

Tesla Roadster's Photos - I Can Has Tesla Roadster? | Facebook

Just FYI, these pics were taken at the San Carlos shop.

 

[doug]

Some brief local news coverage of the Tuesday opening:

KGO Newstalk Radio, San Francisco, AM 810. Local news and talk for the San Francisco Bay Area with Ronn Owens, Len Tillem, Gene Burns and more

abc7news.com: Tesla Motor Company opens first Bay Area dealership 7/22/08

 

[graham]

More local coverage:

Tesla to open showroom at Menlo Park site today - SiliconValley.com

KCBS - Tesla Dealership Opens in Menlo Park

 

[Laurent]

On my way home last night, I stopped by the store right before they closed. There was only one car on display (the light blue one) and the cars in the back were off limits. I'm definitely glad I went to the opening last Saturday, I would've missed out otherwise.

 

[dpeilow]

Tesla Roadster's Photos - Tesla Store Menlo Park | Facebook

 

[Laurent]

Last weekend, they had 2 customer cars in the showroom, an electric blue one and a dark green one. I was told the blue one was for Sergey Brin's wife.
There was a car available for test drives so I took it for a spin on Sand Hill Rd and 280. I had never driven it before. Needless to say, I had a lot of fun. The car sits low but visibility is pretty good. The car isn't as silent as I thought it would be, you can definitely hear the electric motor. The acceleration is simply outrageous, unreal, ridiculous, pick your superlative. On the freeway onramp, I had to take my foot off of the "gas" pedal after only a few seconds, this car is dangerously fast. And it doesn't even have the new transmission :biggrin:

More pics here.

 

[doug]

Last weekend, they had 2 customer cars in the showroom, an electric blue one and a dark green one. I was told the blue one was for Sergey Brin's wife.

I took these pics in the back garage the end the store opening party. Zak asked me to sit on the photos for about a week, so I did.





Two customer cars, F00010 (signature green) and F00012 (electric blue). Zak said the blue car was Sergey's second Roadster. Though it's part of the Founders' Series, it doesn't have the Founder's plate on the side "as per the customer's request." In the last shot you can see EP1 and EP2 in the back.

 

[doug]

 

[doug]

 

[jsnable]

Wow! About time for me to stop by again, methinks... Very promising to see things picking up - substantially.

Jay

 

[WarpedOne]

Nice to see so many Roadsters together.

Give another month and there will be more production units out there than there are VP and EP units.

 

[Tdave]

If that's what it looks like when they're doing 4 a week, how are they possibly going to manage doing 20-25 a week?

 

[TEG]

They can leave one in my driveway if they don't have enough room at the shop!

:biggrin:

 

[Kevin Harney]

Black seems to be a popular choice !!! or is that due to the fact that they run the same colors at the factoy a lot of the time ?

 

[doug]

Black seems to be a popular choice !!! or is that due to the fact that they run the same colors at the factoy a lot of the time ?

I think half those cars you think are black might be Signature Green.

 

[WarpedOne]

If that's what it looks like when they're doing 4 a week, how are they possibly going to manage doing 20-25 a week?

I'd say this is a nice problem to have :biggrin:
They probably have some offsite storage where gliders wait for their introduction to Mr. Drivetrain and Mrs. Battery.