I first found myself in the market for a Model X last summer, but for various reasons it wasn't the best time to commit to the £105,000 that was required at the time. I decided to wait a year or so, but agreed that the sales guy should contact me if anything notable changed.
I was duly contacted the week before last, with information of the change in pricing, specs and significantly, the price drop to approx £90k for seemingly a better car. And so I've started thinking about it all again.
Prior to the sales call, I had intended to wait until end of 2019, which makes slightly more sense for my particular situation. Now this price cut has happened I find myself wondering if these changes enough reason to jump in now, or whether a further 6 month wait would be prudent. 6 months is a long time with Tesla and EVs in general, and a wait until 2020 could potentially see me with a car that better addresses come of my concerns - in the case of summer 2018 it was a) price and b) range - both of which have since been improved.
I am well aware of the advice that 'there will always be an upgrade', 'always going to be a newer/better version coming', etc, and that you should buy when you are ready to buy. I'm a regular buyer of tech and am comfortable with that. However, I do always try to make my bigger purchases once I've studied a product for a while and got to know it's lifecycle and likely changes.
There still seems to be quite a bit of chatter, despite the X recent changes, about an interior refresh in 2019 (a stripped back dash, with horizontal screen per the Model 3, maybe with heads up display), as well as the continued speculation about 2170 batteries.
To be honest I'm not really expecting to hear much about 2170 batteries in a Model X any time soon, but that and an interior refresh would represent quite significant changes to the X.
The question then is: would you buy now knowing that there's never really a bad time to buy a Tesla, and the sooner the better, or... sit it out and wait another 6 months or more, which is arguably the sensible thing to do, and maybe there will be a further couple of updates/refreshes to reward my patience.
thanks very much.
I was duly contacted the week before last, with information of the change in pricing, specs and significantly, the price drop to approx £90k for seemingly a better car. And so I've started thinking about it all again.
Prior to the sales call, I had intended to wait until end of 2019, which makes slightly more sense for my particular situation. Now this price cut has happened I find myself wondering if these changes enough reason to jump in now, or whether a further 6 month wait would be prudent. 6 months is a long time with Tesla and EVs in general, and a wait until 2020 could potentially see me with a car that better addresses come of my concerns - in the case of summer 2018 it was a) price and b) range - both of which have since been improved.
I am well aware of the advice that 'there will always be an upgrade', 'always going to be a newer/better version coming', etc, and that you should buy when you are ready to buy. I'm a regular buyer of tech and am comfortable with that. However, I do always try to make my bigger purchases once I've studied a product for a while and got to know it's lifecycle and likely changes.
There still seems to be quite a bit of chatter, despite the X recent changes, about an interior refresh in 2019 (a stripped back dash, with horizontal screen per the Model 3, maybe with heads up display), as well as the continued speculation about 2170 batteries.
To be honest I'm not really expecting to hear much about 2170 batteries in a Model X any time soon, but that and an interior refresh would represent quite significant changes to the X.
The question then is: would you buy now knowing that there's never really a bad time to buy a Tesla, and the sooner the better, or... sit it out and wait another 6 months or more, which is arguably the sensible thing to do, and maybe there will be a further couple of updates/refreshes to reward my patience.
thanks very much.