I ended up getting the reservation email the same day I bought a different car. I’m sure the 3 drives great, but the idea of another 4-5 month wait (which would have probably have been 6-8 months and pushed out past the tax break) wasn’t appealing. I’ll definitely look at it in the future, but the combination of not being able to even sit in one (no demo available at my local Tesla), let alone test drive one, with the wait just wasn’t worth the risk.

But for me the final thing that made me cancel my day one reservation was all of the production hell talk. I don’t want a car produced in an assembly line that has problems. The multiple line setups (the tent???), the varied production speeds, removing tests and welds that at one point seemed essential... That’s not a good way to ensure consistency. Hell, how much did they have to push (and how much got missed) to make their vaunted 5k/week goal? Maybe in 2-3 years they will have things streamlined enough to get past these issues. But for now, I didn’t to be a guinea pig.