Well, I am in the 8400 area and got my email yesterday.
I should be ecstatic.
Instead the email is "useless" to me.
I just got off the phone with a Tesla rep and I am told that if you want a red, you can wait up to 6 months just to finalize.
Apparently, the factory simply doesn't have sufficient capacity to paint more than, what 3 or 4 colours?
Because they still have to paint any US Sigs left, plus Canadian Sigs plus Euro sigs, etc. etc. they cannot introduce "fire engine red" until March or April next year; about when my car should be delivered. Not when I finalize my order. So I still have a 9 months wait, minimum it sounds like, before I take delivery of car, which in theory the colour I loathe ... it SCREAMS RED!
I know I will make no "friends" with the "Signature club" but NO ONE outside these forums would know that Sig Red is anything "special"; nor am I aware of any car in history where its colour is part of its "pedigree".
You can have all the badging you want. But not colour.
Flat out, it's the only attractive, subtle, elegant and PRACTICAL* colour. Black would be my 2nd choice but in the summer it's too hot* inside the car.
So I have to decide whether to cancel my reservation or just put up with some BAD (IMO) decisions Tesla made years ago to keep Signature people happy. And wait FOREVER. Or wait til "X".
But as much as I "believe" in Tesla, why would I not wait 2 years and order again then?
And no, before anyone PM's me to offer ... I am not paying usurious prices to buy someone else's "Signature Red" ...
I should be ecstatic.
Instead the email is "useless" to me.
I just got off the phone with a Tesla rep and I am told that if you want a red, you can wait up to 6 months just to finalize.
Apparently, the factory simply doesn't have sufficient capacity to paint more than, what 3 or 4 colours?
Because they still have to paint any US Sigs left, plus Canadian Sigs plus Euro sigs, etc. etc. they cannot introduce "fire engine red" until March or April next year; about when my car should be delivered. Not when I finalize my order. So I still have a 9 months wait, minimum it sounds like, before I take delivery of car, which in theory the colour I loathe ... it SCREAMS RED!
I know I will make no "friends" with the "Signature club" but NO ONE outside these forums would know that Sig Red is anything "special"; nor am I aware of any car in history where its colour is part of its "pedigree".
You can have all the badging you want. But not colour.
Flat out, it's the only attractive, subtle, elegant and PRACTICAL* colour. Black would be my 2nd choice but in the summer it's too hot* inside the car.
So I have to decide whether to cancel my reservation or just put up with some BAD (IMO) decisions Tesla made years ago to keep Signature people happy. And wait FOREVER. Or wait til "X".
But as much as I "believe" in Tesla, why would I not wait 2 years and order again then?
And no, before anyone PM's me to offer ... I am not paying usurious prices to buy someone else's "Signature Red" ...