Not really. Tesla stated from the beginning that the higher margin trims would be sold first. According to my reservation, it says the standard battery pack version is “6 months” away. I’m not holding my breath on that, but you can configure a $49k Model 3 today if you want. 

A paltry 150W inverter is nothing special, but Elon later tweeted it will have 240V outlets for things like welders or jackhammers:

Except that Model 3s are actually being delivered. I see them every day now in my area. 

Except that Tesla refunded the difference to people that paid the higher price. The article directly states that. 

Here in the Pacific NW, nearly all 2-series I see are AWD. 

This can be had with AWD though, unlike the ‘Stang. 

Sure, but I thought Kuka robots (which Tesla has on their floor) were pretty ubiquitous in the auto industry? If there are American heavy industrial robots out there, I’m not familiar with them. I know BMW uses Kuka (no big surprise), and I’ve seen other manufacturers with them as well.

You’re thinking like a Jalop, though, not 99.9% of the general population. My brother traded in his wife’s Saturn Vue for $500. It had some ignition issues, but I even offered to sell it on CL for him and and take a 10% cut, and he turned me down as he didn’t want the hassle (which to him was about 0%, but whatever).

No, AutoPilot and ProPilot (Nissan) can both see two cars ahead, at least in good weather conditions. They bounce the radar underneath the car ahead.

There’s a $78k Model 3 Performance version of the Model 3 in the exact same way there’s a $67K M3 version of the $35k BMW 3-series....

I couldn’t disagree more. The only jerkiness I find in the AutoSteer is when the lane markings suddenly widen, like when a passing lane merges back into a single lane. It’s not swerving all over the road, but it is more “digital” than human would drive.

Yes. ProPilot can fully stop the car, accelerate again, and auto-steer at all speeds (at every speed I’ve driven anyway). If you sit still with it on for more than 10 seconds seconds, you have to press “resume” on the steering wheel controls to restart following the car ahead of you, but the system remains active the…

The driver in the commercial uses it totally wrong. I use it all the time for commuting in our Leaf, and just rest my hands on the bottom of the wheel. You don’t have to awkwardly hover them like that.

That’s too bad, because the ProPilot system is really quite good. We have it on our Leaf, and it easily handles curves, traffic, rain, etc. I use it on my commute all the time, and I treat it like cruise control on steroids, which is what it is.  

Something that CarMax really nails is online vehicle searching. No automotive sales website (CL, AutoTrader, Cars.com, CarGurus, AutoTempest, etc) has as good of vehicle feature searching as CarMax.

Want to search for a 2016 BMW 340i with M suspension, a manual transmission, and a head up display? Not even BMW’s own…

I’m sure there are redundant pins that lock the wing tip into place when in flight mode (you can see what appear to be pin holes in the animation above).

As others have said, I seriously doubt wing tip failure would cause a crash by itself.

I feel like Tesla is an easy target due to them being highly visible in the media right now.

It has a Fallout Pip-Boy style to it that I actually sort of like.

You try staying on your feet after 100lbs of teeth and claws just leaped on top of you.