Tesla Model 3 May Make Appearance Next Year
Despite the absence of a mule, prototype or anything that would resemble reality, Tesla’s Model 3 — or III, however you spell it — will make its debut at the Geneva auto show next year, AutoExpress is reporting.
The BMW 3 Series fighter would be the third model from Tesla, and perhaps the first built in a European factory. Representatives from Tesla said they would consider building the Model 3 on the European continent once the automaker started mass producing its three models.
The Model 3 would join the Model S and Model X in the automaker’s portfolio.
In an interview with AutoExpress, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the Model 3 would be around 20 percent smaller than the Model S and would have a range over 200 miles.
Musk said the car would sell for around $35,000 and performance — from the car company that just announced “ludicrous speed” in the Model S — would be on par with the M3 or M4.
The Geneva auto show begins March 1, 2016.
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I'm not sure if they'll ever get around to mass producing anything, but You've got to give them credit for sheer chutzpah. Riding their current "we're not only green, but fast, hip, cool, new-new, the future, and Appleis" cred directly into battle with what is probably the single most valuable model brand in all of autodom. The BMW 3 likely generates more uncontested profit from brand value alone than any other car, and now Tesla wants to show them up. Compared to vacuum-tubing between SF and NY, and blasting around Mars in a Tesla powered rover, Thinking (or at least dreaming) Big is where it's at over there.
The only way this car will cost 35k is after 20k of tax credits, fuel savings, good karma credits, clean conscience credits, and whatever other credit Tesla can think of to include in the price.
The Model 3 will be Tesla's fourth vehicle, not their third. The Model X will be in customers' hands by the time we get our first glimpse of the Model 3.
The usual Musk horse manure. We'll make 'em in Europe too!!!! Just buy a lot of them first, oh and btw, we haven't made any yet and will miss all deadlines for introduction anyway. A load of rubbish from beginning to end. But that's just an opinion on what I consider is near enough a con job. I've read a number of fawning long interviews with Musk. Hasn't changed my mind, it's just a variation on "Gotta keep the stock price up somehow."