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[tgrace98]

I test drove one in Palm Desert in December. It was a very impressive ride. The instantaneous acceleration takes a bit of getting used to. It is surprising to have that much torque under the pedal at any speed and the self driving features works exceptionally well (at least on the roads I test it on).

Like some others, I'm waiting for a car with a 500 mile range and a price tag under $35,000. I don't think it will be more than 3 or 4 years until we are there. Many manufacturers are entering the market in the next year or so.

Enjoy your new car.

Yeah it did take a little bit to adjust to, especially with the regen braking. One pedal driving is cool though once I got the hang of it. We are heading back out to San Diego in June, planning to road trip the car and see how viable it is to travel on the supercharger network vs normal car.

Antsy for an update on the car, still no delivery date assigned yet, but only ordered a week ago. Crossing my.fingers for this week sometime, there's a few other people on the Tesla forums that ordered similar configurations earlier in March and got VINs assigned last week. If that pattern continues I should have a VIN in the second half of this week.

I have a co-worker that took his Model S from St. Louis to Dallas. He said it took him an extra 4hrs to get there. Because every time he stopped to charge it per the GPS in the car. there was someone already hooked up to the charger. Now this was going from Missouri to Texas. I am sure the supercharger network is a little bit more built up in your region than here. Gas is always a lot cheaper here in the midwest so the electric car rage hasn't taken off as fast.

[AsLan7]

Yeah it did take a little bit to adjust to, especially with the regen braking. One pedal driving is cool though once I got the hang of it. We are heading back out to San Diego in June, planning to road trip the car and see how viable it is to travel on the supercharger network vs normal car.

Antsy for an update on the car, still no delivery date assigned yet, but only ordered a week ago. Crossing my.fingers for this week sometime, there's a few other people on the Tesla forums that ordered similar configurations earlier in March and got VINs assigned last week. If that pattern continues I should have a VIN in the second half of this week.

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T550, you are going to LOCE driving that Model 3! Our family of five is constantly jockeying to drive our Model S.

I'm a big fan of the regen braking because there is practically no brake wear OR brake dust to clean up! Remember, you can always select the other options (low regen or no regen) in the settings if you want to drive it like your other cars. After our kids and wifey got used to regen mode, they actually prefer it. My wife does like the creep mode selected "on" though. That sounds funny

Like you, I've owned quite a few cars of all makes & models in my lifetime. This one by far is my favorite.....(and the honeymoon phase is over after driving it for more than a year). Why?...it is easy and fun. I can honestly say owning an every day driver- five to seven passenger sedan with free supercharging for life that accelerates from 0 to 60 in 2.28 seconds (currently the quickest production car in the world) and a sub 10 second quarter mile makes this car thrilling. Plus great looks, air ride, saloon handling, snow traction, 5 star crash rating, amazing storage, great technology, killer app, low maintenance, etc.. propels this car light-years ahead of anything else I have ever owned. Is it perfect?-no...are there issues to work out?-yes...would I trade it for any other production car out there...not a chance.

Now, with that being said, I would NOT own a Tesla (or any current EV) if long distance cross country travel were my only driving requirements. Yes the Tesla supercharger network is the best and biggest in the world. But it is still a nuisance to plan trips and navigate to those superchargers. This will smartly change though as Tesla is adding more and more superchargers in addition to the V3.0 superchargers that were just announced.

I drove mine from Minneapolis to Pittsburgh over two days. Great road trip but not something I would want to do on a daily basis....and I have a 321 mile range.

As Tesla and other manufacturers get the charge time down and the range up, the popularity of these EV's is only going to sky rocket. Enjoy the tip of the spear for now. Soon we will look back at these first Teslas as relics as wireless induction charging, swappable battery packs (like the NIO), and longer range ( roadster) with faster charging (Porsche) come into play. Gotta love technology brutha. Changes faster than you can keep up with it.

Have fun with that baby (when she's delivered) and cya on the Tesal Motors Club forum for Tesla talk. (or PM me). Btw, my younger brother talked to me until he was blue in the face about his Model S and why I needed to purchase one. I gave him every excuse I could think of why I would not buy one...especially since I'm the ICE performance car guy in the family. . Then, like you, I test drove one. One word...Awesome.
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Btw, if you haven't had a chance...watch Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson in Ludicrous mode in the SECOND video of this post that came out last week.




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[jhnmdahl]

Bigblock sees that 7400 lb-ft of torque and figures out how to get his hands on one for his boat, we’ll have to change his name mere to Bigstator.

I can’t imagine Volvo doesn’t have an electric marine engine under development - it will be fun to see what the next 10 years bring.

[tgrace98]

Bigblock sees that 7400 lb-ft of torque and figures out how to get his hands on one for his boat, we’ll have to change his name mere to Bigstator.

I can’t imagine Volvo doesn’t have an electric marine engine under development - it will be fun to see what the next 10 years bring.

nah he would still want that 20 year old Merc Big Block in there.

[Big Block Power]

Bigblock sees that 7400 lb-ft of torque and figures out how to get his hands on one for his boat, we’ll have to change his name mere to Bigstator.

I can’t imagine Volvo doesn’t have an electric marine engine under development - it will be fun to see what the next 10 years bring.

nah he would still want that 20 year old Merc Big Block in there.

What ever tgrace98. I drive a 50hp over priced prius every day with 65ft of torque and I love it. Model 3 will be next for me. They had to pull me out of it at Barrett Jackson. I almost ordered one there.

[liquid]

My gearhead buddies aren't going to be happy....

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I like the thing you did.

[thunder550]

Have fun with that baby (when she's delivered) and cya on the Tesal Motors Club forum for Tesla talk. (or PM me). Btw, my younger brother talked to me until he was blue in the face about his Model S and why I needed to purchase one. I gave him every excuse I could think of why I would not buy one...especially since I'm the ICE performance car guy in the family. . Then, like you, I test drove one. One word...Awesome.

Hey A7, sorry for the delay, and thanks for all the insights What's your handle over there on TMC?

Here she is, brought home yesterday afternoon!

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I like the thing you did.

[Big Block Power]

Sweet T5billion

[akorcovelos]

Beautiful, but white interior? You are a brave soul, lol.

[cmattj]

Awesome Tbil!

[AsLan7]

Have fun with that baby (when she's delivered) and cya on the Tesal Motors Club forum for Tesla talk. (or PM me). Btw, my younger brother talked to me until he was blue in the face about his Model S and why I needed to purchase one. I gave him every excuse I could think of why I would not buy one...especially since I'm the ICE performance car guy in the family. . Then, like you, I test drove one. One word...Awesome.

Hey A7, sorry for the delay, and thanks for all the insights What's your handle over there on TMC?

Here she is, brought home yesterday afternoon!

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I like the thing you did.

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Love the police grabber red color you've selected T550. Be careful, it will be difficult to keep her below 100mph. The acceleration is addicting....if not breathtaking.

....and the handle on the other site you inquired about....you guessed it, AsLan7

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[AsLan7]

Have fun with that baby (when she's delivered) and cya on the Tesal Motors Club forum for Tesla talk. (or PM me). Btw, my younger brother talked to me until he was blue in the face about his Model S and why I needed to purchase one. I gave him every excuse I could think of why I would not buy one...especially since I'm the ICE performance car guy in the family. . Then, like you, I test drove one. One word...Awesome.

Hey A7, sorry for the delay, and thanks for all the insights What's your handle over there on TMC?

Here she is, brought home yesterday afternoon!

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I like the thing you did.

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Btw, T550000, you may enjoy this Model 3 track vid that is trending on TMC. Published 3 days ago on YouTube. It's with my favorite test driver, Randy Probst...




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[akorcovelos]

Man those cars are fast, but...they just have no soul. I need to hear the engine, smell the race fuel, to really get that track high. Also, you have a professional driver at an HPDE, you could put him in a Civic and he'd be overtaking the same cars as the video.

[thunder550]

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Love the police grabber red color you've selected T550. Be careful, it will be difficult to keep her below 100mph. The acceleration is addicting....if not breathtaking.

....and the handle on the other site you inquired about....you guessed it, AsLan7 A7 spinning.gif

You are 100% correct...addicting as a driver, breathtaking as a passenger. I let my buddy drive it last night with me in the passenger seat. It feels different when you aren't completely prepared for it like you would be as a driver. He's a car guy, driven lots of big V8s and currently has an Audi RS4. His response..."holy crap"

I swear I searched for asLan7 over there before and nothing came up. Just searched again and there you are! I use my alter ego destructure00 over there.

Btw, T550000, you may enjoy this Model 3 track vid that is trending on TMC. Published 3 days ago on YouTube. It's with my favorite test driver, Randy Probst...

The creator of track mode himself! That's awesome! Buttonwillow is about an 8 hour drive for me, I'll have to see about going to the next Tesla Corsa event. That's awesome that Randy went out for it!

Man those cars are fast, but...they just have no soul. I need to hear the engine, smell the race fuel, to really get that track high. Also, you have a professional driver at an HPDE, you could put him in a Civic and he'd be overtaking the same cars as the video.

I dunno man...there's something about that feeling of instant, silent, effortless power that's hard to convey in words. It's definitely different, but I'm not sure I'd use "no soul" to describe it

Beautiful, but white interior? You are a brave soul, lol.

They say it's easy to maintain and keep clean. My 5 year old will put that one to the test

[Big Block Power]

I can't wait to eat cheetos in it next year
Your 5 year old has nothing in me. Lol