Crowds Throng to Tesla Store as Model 3 Goes On Display

[Hamartia Antidote]

http://fortune.com/2018/01/13/tesla-store-model-3-display/


On Friday, Tesla’s Model 3 went on public display in only the second of its showrooms, attracting a crowd of gawkers big enough to generate long lines out the door.

The showroom, in Los Angeles’ Century City, follows a Model 3 going on display in Tesla’s Palo Alto showroom, reports to the Los Angeles Times. The Model 3 has been trotted out at car shows and Tesla events, but so far it’s been hard for the public to get up close. Tesla now says display Model 3s will be spreading to showrooms around the country in the “near future.”

Technology reporter Brooke Crothers posted two brief videos of the excitement at the debut, and compared the line snaking out the door to the ones that form when Apple launches a new phone.

The difference, of course, is that the people lining up at Apple stores are usually there to buy something — but there’s no chance anyone in the Tesla crowd was driving home in a Model 3. Tesla has received more than 450,000 preorders for the Model 3, and production bottlenecks meant manufacturing got off to a slow start last year. More recent anecdotal evidence suggests things are picking up, but anyone ordering a Model 3 today could still end up waiting years to get it.

So, it’s no surprise the Model 3 hasn’t gone on wide public display — it’s more important to get cars to the people who’ve already payed for them. In fact, it seems there might be more demand to just get close to the thing than Tesla can easily accommodate: the Century City store reportedly wasn’t even offering test drives, and staff were described as anxious as visitors swarmed around the car.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[Gomig-21]

Really nice car, I like it a lot. They'll end up making improvements on that center screen and the functions settings but at least the major things that you need to do while driving are also available to you in actual push-buttons and levers as well as the screen which is a good thing. But definitely a new phase in cars and the driving experience in a new world we live in. Toyota Prius is a thing of the past already. Incredible times we live in.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Really nice car, I like it a lot. They'll end up making improvements on that center screen and the functions settings but at least the major things that you need to do while driving are also available to you in actual push-buttons and levers as well as the screen which is a good thing. But definitely a new phase in cars and the driving experience in a new world we live in. Toyota Prius is a thing of the past already. Incredible times we live in.

Rather odd placement of the screen floating out of the dash. Obviously the minimalism in the buttons is related to going fully autonomous. Certainly this is a game changer.

 

[Gomig-21]

Rather odd placement of the screen floating out of the dash. Obviously the minimalism in the buttons is related to going fully autonomous. Certainly this is a game changer.

And the options of getting all the different upgrades as they become available is a very cool thing. It's like a fully adaptable piece of technology. You're essentially buying a car today that will have the features of tomorrow available to it. That's another major appeal to it besides the obvious electric part.

 

[Menthol]

I don't know why it's so popular.

I dislike the car.

Really nice car, I like it a lot. They'll end up making improvements on that center screen and the functions settings but at least the major things that you need to do while driving are also available to you in actual push-buttons and levers as well as the screen which is a good thing. But definitely a new phase in cars and the driving experience in a new world we live in. Toyota Prius is a thing of the past already. Incredible times we live in.

How Toyota don't want to embrace electric car, killed Prius trend.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

And the options of getting all the different upgrades as they become available is a very cool thing. It's like a fully adaptable piece of technology. You're essentially buying a car today that will have the features of tomorrow available to it. That's another major appeal to it besides the obvious electric part.

Just think of all the crazy changes that will happen when cars go all electric. You can drive indoors without CO worries. You could safely park your car in your living room.

Just think of how that could change for instance hotel lobby designs (drive right up to the front desk..no reason to step outside at the curb in the rain). Shopping mall designs.

You could even make domed cities.

 

[Gomig-21]

How Toyota don't want to embrace electric car, killed Prius trend.

The Prius concept was great but they should've known that they needed to go all-electric in a big way and they didn't seize the opportunity like Tesla did.

Just think of all the crazy changes that will happen when cars go all electric. You can drive indoors without CO worries. You could safely park your car in your living room.

Just think of how that could change for instance hotel lobby designs (drive right up to the front desk..no reason to step outside at the curb in the rain). Shopping mall designs.

You could even make domed cities.

It's a technological revolution. Remember movies like Mad Max where the theme was basically a shortage of fuel and how people were going to kill each other for it etc.?

Even all the wars fought since the turn of the 20th century all had oil as a driving force in the conflicts, even excluding the Middle East it was still considered the black gold worth fighting and dying for. Man how things have changed.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The Prius concept was great but they should've known that they needed to go all-electric in a big way and they didn't seize the opportunity like Tesla did.

They just got comfy and dropped the ball like Blackberry.

 

[Gomig-21]

They just got comfy and dropped the ball like Blackberry.

That's a perfect analogy. The Blackberry thing is even more dumbfounding.

 

[Desert Fox]

I don't know why it's so popular.

I dislike the car.



How Toyota don't want to embrace electric car, killed Prius trend.

Electric cars suck in my experience. The battery drains fast in cold weather. Also you can't charge it just about anywhere. They're not versatile enough.