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Originally Posted by mittelhauser
Yes, it is an independent forum and therefore anybody can choose to (or choose not to) be active in it. However, if every time somebody asks a question about something like the production schedule you choose to take it as an opportunity to slam TM and bring up the issue(s) with Martin, then people will just stop frequenting the forum because the signal to noise ratio sucks. These issues have been beat to death in other threads and not EVERY thread needs to revisit all the same questions.
You seem to take TM actions very personally for reasons that I don't understand. A quick perusal of your posts (359!) shows an unhealthy hositility. Other than Martin himself and a few other folks, why would somebody bother with all the angst towards TM? If you don't like what the company does, don't buy their products and certainly don't spend as much time as you do reading forums dedicated to them!
No big deal, I'll drop it now. I (like most of their early customers) have been satisfied with the communications from the company. Sure it was more transparent under Martin and there is more caution in what they say now. Then again, a lot of the current PR questions are due to all of that early communication that made promises that TM was unable to keep.
It's a frigging startup company. Schedules slip, things change, deliveries are hard. :)
-Jon |
I wasn't about to reply to this thread, since I figured someone will cut in, but I guess I should now. I myself wouldn't consider Tesla Motors Club as hostile, it's still an excellent place for non-owners to discuss what is going on with Tesla Motors. If you want real hostility you should see TTAC. Even Jalopnik has been fairly skeptical of TM. TM's reputation on the net hasn't been as postive as it was before, a lot of people assume production has frozen at car #4 because that is pretty much the last update on Roadster production most of the public have heard about. A lot of people on the net also want TM to fail; you won't find those people here, the people here still want Tesla Motors to succeed in the end, no matter how critical or snarky some comments may sound (and usually the criticism is for good reason, I'll just use WarpedOne as an example, sorry WarpedOne, his 359 posts are not all devoted to criticism of, much less hostility towards, Tesla, as you seem to think; a large majority is on other topics). So I'm still puzzled how Tesla employees found this forum to be overall hostile, because besides from some touchy issues (we all know what those are), we have been completely supportive of Tesla Motors, and esp considering they still comment on TTAC, which doubtlessly is hostile towards TM in every way.
Don't want to hijack this thread further, so back on topic, as Cobos mentions, the main consensus here on production is that it is going along fine and any slowdown is probably because TM doesn't want too many drivetrain 1.0s out needing replacement.
To answer the original question:
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Originally Posted by FLXX
Founder Series produced? Signature 100 in progress? Or still at car Nr. 4?  |
The probably the only non-owner accessible link avaliable now on recent production status is this link from June 19, 2008 which says #5 is about to be delivered and #15 is in production:
Tesla Update: Former CEO’s Crashed Car, IPO Plans & WhiteStar « Earth2Tech
If the production is 4 cars or more per week as mittelhauser mentions then Tesla should be able to hit the signature cars this month as promised, unless of course Tesla wants to give more time for the drivetrain 1.5 to catch up. Hopefully they'll have another update on production avaliable to the public soon.