Sure, build a car factory/assembly line in a tent, and commentariat is upset.

Restore a barn find Miura under a tent and you’re an instant Jalopnik Gold member :P

I’m always surprised at how much shit talking happens on jalopnik about the company that makes the quickest, safest, most efficient car on the planet. When was the last time someone built a four door sedan 100% in the U.S. that’s quicker than every Ferrari ever built except 2? So they used an industrial tent for final…

First of all, production rates and delivery rates are not the same (although the one you cite was production). Vehicles are not delivered at the same rate as production (especially with Tesla now juggling the Federal tax credit 200k limit). Q1 deliveries totaled 29,980 vehicles.

Plus, NUMMI didn’t manufacture engines/seats/etc onsite.

I know that this isn’t the point, but this is the future. The ability to rapidly, and hopefully economically, create a temporary assembly line that can be moved at will is some damn fine engineering. It has gallons of potential. Ex. Apple making a surge line to handle excess iPhone orders on a new phone.

It almost stops. It’s a low speed collision that should not cause any harm to the passengers.

Yeah but…

“Even if Tesla boosters hate to admit it, the automaker’s about to face stiff competition from the rest of the industry with equally impressive electric cars. “

Long term - minimal. From another article, the 10.723 car “has seen its fair share of hard launches, yet never affected by Tesla’s power limiting feature, and has a battery pack that shows no degradation after 20k miles of use.”

Short term - not as bad as others here are saying. There are videos around of guys who’ll…

“The body shop in the OP article did not begin repairs on the car for three months and then ordered more than 90 parts and took over seven months to repair the car.”

Repairs to the Model S and Model X are complicated due to the aluminum construction.

This is a good thing. There needs to be at least one sane person in the room.