Tesla Model X On A Roll? To EXCEED Sales Projections?

Sounds like someone is being paid to cheer breathlessly for Tesla.

Not sure how 24 deliveries at the end of November qualifies for any of this bluster. Sounds like stock hype to me.

or The National Enquirer...

The Atlanta Falcons just phoned, they would like their doors back

Made me laugh.

What is with all the Tesla haters on here? It's quite tragic. This is an American company making American cars in America, it is actually doing a bunch of other stuff as well, it's innovating, it's making other car manufacturers step up their game in performance and design and technology. Are you hating on it because you can't afford one yet? Or because it makes your car look awful in comparison? Like... wtf seriously. I see a lot of people parroting Lutz on the subject when frankly I wouldn't trust the guy to run a lemonade stand. Between SpaceX and Tesla, we have something to actually point to and be a little bit proud; the US used to be a land of high innovation but the rest of the world caught up a while ago. I hope Tesla continues to kick ass and disrupt old-school thinking and push auto tech and design forward.

Relax - mainly just a bunch of clueless old guys commenting on this site. Praise for Tesla is abundant on the auto sites that matter.

runninglogan1—why then aren't you on those other auto sites that matter?

Real Americans don't take government handouts. Musk did not make this company. The US taxpayer did.

And YES, I'd have let GM have to deal with bankruptcy without a bailout ditto Chrysler. Both would have survived.

MDarringer,
I know you're Hyundai fan and many of their cars are very good. But if you had ever spent time in South Korea you'd realize how xenophobic they are. Indeed in the 90's and through ~ 2010 when I worked there they would vandalize non Korean cars because they were "foreign". And there's been tremendous trade barriers to bar imports. And government financial support for local car companies.

I often hear tough guy statements about why GM and Chrysler should have been allowed to fail, even if it took down hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process. In Europe and Asia, there is close coordination between governments and auto manufacturers.

Free trade isn't always free or fair. I admire Tesla for all they have accomplished. If I hadn't spent $400k+ on a fleet of German cars and now thinking more about funding my retirement, I'd have a Tesla or two in the garage!

Americans are tolerant and that's why we are unique in loving cars from all over. Most other countries don't think that way.

I honestly could not care less if the Koreans are xenophobic. For my business interests the bottom line goals are (1) when it sells does the company profit?, (2) when it drives off the lot will it be an infrequent visitor for unscheduled maintenance?, and (3) can the company attract customers back.

That said, in my discussions with Hyundai/Kia representatives--some from South Korea--I've not felt that xenophobia and if it's an act so be it.

I've gone to two presentations by Chinese companies interested in breaking into the American market and I told them my three bottom-line issues. None of us who went have heard anything more. In both cases, the representatives--from China--seemed puzzled that we were not jumping for joy over the chance of getting a dealer.

I said to one, give me one of your cars to drive. Crickets.

As for Tesla, the US government should NOT be funding the creation of new private sector companies. Literally NOTHING about Tesla is that revolutionary.