My order will finalize this week and I am staring at 96K car
Going through the forum posts, I see there are many owners, who owner Ferrari, Bentley, Porshe, Mercedez S Class and list goes on and on. I am assuming many owners are really rich and 100K is either few month income or less than 1-2% of their worth and they are attracted to the latest toy which they will play for some time. They can easilu affod Model S.
Then there are folks who typically don't spend more than 30K on a car. Some may have stretched to buy the car. Some may afford it but still would not have paid so much for a car which is a depreciating asset as it makes little financial sense. Folks did it for various reasons like attraction by the technology and contribution to green movement, thinking Model S is more than a car etc. Now that you have owned the car and have spent so much, how are you feeling? Is it worth it? Does financial reality (montly premium or getting behind by 100K) cause you to rethink your decision? Given a chance again, will you re-buy Tesla, will you buy a higher priced Tesla or do you think you should rather wait for few years when used car market is available and 2012, 2013 models will be available at half the price as they are for other high end luxury cars and where most middle class folks buy used cars and let ultra rick pick initial year depreciation. Cheers, Amit
Going through the forum posts, I see there are many owners, who owner Ferrari, Bentley, Porshe, Mercedez S Class and list goes on and on. I am assuming many owners are really rich and 100K is either few month income or less than 1-2% of their worth and they are attracted to the latest toy which they will play for some time. They can easilu affod Model S.
Then there are folks who typically don't spend more than 30K on a car. Some may have stretched to buy the car. Some may afford it but still would not have paid so much for a car which is a depreciating asset as it makes little financial sense. Folks did it for various reasons like attraction by the technology and contribution to green movement, thinking Model S is more than a car etc. Now that you have owned the car and have spent so much, how are you feeling? Is it worth it? Does financial reality (montly premium or getting behind by 100K) cause you to rethink your decision? Given a chance again, will you re-buy Tesla, will you buy a higher priced Tesla or do you think you should rather wait for few years when used car market is available and 2012, 2013 models will be available at half the price as they are for other high end luxury cars and where most middle class folks buy used cars and let ultra rick pick initial year depreciation. Cheers, Amit