Tesla releases pricing/specs for final production Model S

[SoCalGuy]

Outside of the looks department, the Model S looks like it's offering a much more advanced package and better value. What do you guys think?

http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options
Tesla Model S specs

[Deep Ocean]

I like it. Won't buy it for awhile but I could see it as a daily driver. Dang that 0-60 is fast!

[AnOutsider]

It's funny that over on the Tesla forums there's more negativity about it than here.

[SoCalGuy]

(12-22-2011 12:33 PM)AnOutsider Wrote:  It's funny that over on the Tesla forums there's more negativity about it than here.

What's the negativity about?

Btw Tesla only charges an extra $750 to $1,500 for special paints!

[AnOutsider]

(12-22-2011 12:34 PM)SoCalGuy Wrote:  

(12-22-2011 12:33 PM)AnOutsider Wrote:  It's funny that over on the Tesla forums there's more negativity about it than here.

What's the negativity about?

Btw Tesla only charges an extra $750 to $1,500 for special paints!

A bunch of people are upset that the base Model S (160 mile) doesn't support Tesla's future superchargers, that the 0-60 of the lower models are slower and that the tech package is 3750.

Also some grumblings about the higher cost of the signature option (which I'm torn on).

[SoCalGuy]

(12-22-2011 12:41 PM)AnOutsider Wrote:  

(12-22-2011 12:34 PM)SoCalGuy Wrote:  

(12-22-2011 12:33 PM)AnOutsider Wrote:  It's funny that over on the Tesla forums there's more negativity about it than here.

What's the negativity about?

Btw Tesla only charges an extra $750 to $1,500 for special paints!

A bunch of people are upset that the base Model S (160 mile) doesn't support Tesla's future superchargers, that the 0-60 of the lower models are slower and that the tech package is 3750.

Also some grumblings about the higher cost of the signature option (which I'm torn on).

Ah - these folks should count their blessings! They obviously haven't been through the Fisker process

[dennis]

If you include all of the options that make the Model S comparably equipped to the Karma, as Tesla has done with the Signature Edition, the price is $87,900+$7500 tax credit = $95,400.

Karma pricing for EcoSport+metallic paint = $113,000.

The Tesla is 15% cheaper, 10% faster (5.6 vs. 6.3 to 60mph) and much roomier in both interior and storage.

Karma is much better looking and there is no range anxiety.

You would hope that both can be successful in the marketplace, especially if Fisker gets their execution act together under their new executive management.

[ct-fiskerbuzz]

(12-22-2011 12:34 PM)SoCalGuy Wrote:  Btw Tesla only charges an extra $750 to $1,500 for special paints!

They have less car body to paint.

I'm also not at all sure those prices are going to hold. If (as I expect will happen) there are hitches that delay "full production"—already pushed back to "mid 2013"—I'd bet that by 2014, some of the prices will change. Of course they could actually move down, depending on competition from the Nina.

[SoCalGuy]

(12-22-2011 12:52 PM)dennis Wrote:  If you include all of the options that make the Model S comparably equipped to the Karma, as Tesla has done with the Signature Edition, the price is $87,900+$7500 tax credit = $95,400.

Karma pricing for EcoSport+metallic paint = $113,000.

The Tesla is 15% cheaper, 10% faster (5.6 vs. 6.3 to 60mph) and much roomier in both interior and storage.

Karma is much better looking and there is no range anxiety.

You would hope that both can be successful in the marketplace, especially if Fisker gets their execution act together under their new executive management.

0-60 time is actually 4.4s!!!

[Deep Ocean]

I could easily see a merger between Tesla and Fisker in future years. Fisker stying and range anxiety resolution, Tesla manufacturing and model S/Nina. Think about it. Makes more sense than one might think.