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The Menlo Park sales/service center
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rolosrevenge
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The same thing happened here in Seattle, I went by on Teusday and they were just shipping out their demo models as well as their show room model. They reassured me there would be 2010 models for me to drool over shortly.
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With US Roadster sales coming to a close, I wonder what the plan is for the Menlo Park store. As was mentioned before, supposedly their lease is up in a little more than a year.
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bonnie
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I was there hanging out while topping off before driving home (East of Sac) until about 5pm - one of the event organizers told me that "their CEO was a friend of Elon's and they were using the store for his consulting company's meeting". Tesla cleared all the cars but one out of the showroom, chairs and tables everywhere, catered food being brought in, audio guy showed up, bar getting set up, etc etc. The event was supposed to start at 7pm.
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bonnie
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And having the new San Jose store gives the south bay coverage already.
But Menlo Park isn't just a store. They have been doing (powertrain installation) assembly and all that. Perhaps all of the remaining Roadsters will be assembled out of the UK now?
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Bonnie1194, in case you didn't notice you were responding to a post from a year and a half ago.
On my first experience with Menlo Park (when I did my test drive) it seemed very sleepy. There were a couple of cars out back and not much going on. I dropped by a year later and the place was absolutely crammed full of people, cars, and equipment. So I get the impression the level of activity there varies quite dramatically.
All the stores host parties. Often tech or green related. The Sales staff mingles and low pressure sell Roadsters (and probably S's now).
The LA store is just too small for the Model S. They will have to make some big changes or move. Looking at the pics of other stores they too seem tiny for the large S to be on the floor, in repair and in stock.
The LA store is just too small for the Model S. They will have to make some big changes or move. Looking at the pics of other stores they too seem tiny for the large S to be on the floor, in repair and in stock.
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But there isn't a service bay in the San Jose store - it's retail only.
Though it does seem silly to have 4 different locations all within a few miles of each other (Palo Alto HQ, Menlo store/service/Roadster assy, San Jose store, Fremont Model S factory) - surely there's some consolidation to be had somewhere.
This was part of my point. Assembly in Menlo Park should be winding down soon. I suspect some of those guys may be transitioned to building Model S betas. The original lease is up July 31, 2012... not sure if Stanford has extended that, but it seems Tesla will have to leave that location right around the time the Model S starts shipping.
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The Palo Alto HQ is big, and the Model S Factory is gigantic. If they have to move power-train assembly or service somewhere it seems like either of those locations could work as a consolidated location if Menlo Park had to close.
I gather they got out of all the locations around San Carlos too? The old HQ certainly vacated, but there were other things going on in neighboring buildings.
Strider, maybe you could ask them about plans for Menlo Park when you go on the owners tour soon?
The great thing about the Menlo Park store was that as the final assembly point for Roadsters, and as service for an area with probably the highest density of Roadsters, that store probably has more cars on hand at any given time than anywhere else in the world.
I choose my car colors based on looking at cars are the store. There was a Racing Green Roadster, but I didn't like the seat colors so we grabbed some samples and kind of held them over the seats to see if I liked the combination. This was before that snazzy online design tool although I don't think the online tool gets Racing Green quite right.
I had problems recently and went in on a stormy Saturday to get a firmware upgrade and took this picture. Probably the highest density of Roadsters in a given space anywhere as they had moved all the cars into the service area to protect them from the storm!
I hope Tesla keeps a Bay Area service location if they have to loose Menlo Park. There are probably lots of closed dealerships which can do the job. I bet that's why they opened Santana Row. That is a prime location for shopping and getting people's eye. Tesla is challenging the existing car purchase model. Most people think, "I need a new car" then go to dealerships, but with the Santana Row location it's more like getting people who have not yet decided to get rid of the car that's drilling a hole in their wallet every week into seeing how much fun it could be to own a Tesla! You don't need a service location there. They could service at the factory or with a ranger.
I choose my car colors based on looking at cars are the store. There was a Racing Green Roadster, but I didn't like the seat colors so we grabbed some samples and kind of held them over the seats to see if I liked the combination. This was before that snazzy online design tool although I don't think the online tool gets Racing Green quite right.
I had problems recently and went in on a stormy Saturday to get a firmware upgrade and took this picture. Probably the highest density of Roadsters in a given space anywhere as they had moved all the cars into the service area to protect them from the storm!
I hope Tesla keeps a Bay Area service location if they have to loose Menlo Park. There are probably lots of closed dealerships which can do the job. I bet that's why they opened Santana Row. That is a prime location for shopping and getting people's eye. Tesla is challenging the existing car purchase model. Most people think, "I need a new car" then go to dealerships, but with the Santana Row location it's more like getting people who have not yet decided to get rid of the car that's drilling a hole in their wallet every week into seeing how much fun it could be to own a Tesla! You don't need a service location there. They could service at the factory or with a ranger.
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I haven't seen this reported elsewhere, but was told today by a service rep in the Menlo Park service center that Tesla will be opening up a service center in South Palo Alto. The plan is to have it open by October when the Menlo Park service center is expected to be shutdown. Obviously it isn't official until it's official, but this should be very good news for anyone in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Los Altos or Mountain View.
Well it's pretty official in that it's listed on the Tesla Website. I'm looking forward to the one in Sunnyvale.
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