Judge Rules That Tesla Can No Longer Sell Vehicles In Missouri

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This is a better link to the same story:

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/01/03/tesla-kansas-city-location-closed.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

According to the article, Tesla could continue to operate the stores and sell cars online (like they do in other states where they are not allowed to sell cars directly from stores), but they chose not to.

I think this is a good chess move. Tesla is putting pressure back to the state and expose MADA and state government on their scheme. With Musk now on Trump's advisory council and having Trump's ear plus recent threats from Trump on GM and Ford building cars in Mexico, Musk can play the "jobs" card to turn the tide on the state.

As if that dump of a state is a huge tesla market,lol.

I'm sure the stare is Misery is lovely. LOL

(Sigh) And make sure your saloon is equipped with a horse-hitching post. It's the law.

Sometimes, old laws need to be removed from the books.

I've been to probably about 10 Tesla stores around the country in my travels. The Kansas City Tesla store is the biggest and nicest one that I've visited. Its larger and better situated than the South Beach Lincoln Road Tesla store and it really feels like a true, premium auto retailer (versus a pop-up shop) like the Tesla store in East Hampton, NY.

I was in Kansas City visiting family and had some time to kill (this is last May) so my 14 yr old son and I took a Model X on a long test drive, along with an excellent sales person.

Au contraire to the common sentiments about the mid-west - amongst the professional set there (doctors, lawyers, investment professionals), their salaries are high and the cost to live REALLY well there is much lower than on the coasts - so amongst a certain set, there is plenty of disposable income to blow on baubles like a Falcon-doored Tesla. Even the 'cheap' new homes - $300,000 - have three car garages and it seems every affluent family has an SUV, a Silverado/F150, and a 'fun' car - BMW, Benz, Porsche, and yes Tesla. Its also no big deal when it breaks - because they just flat bed it away for a week and then bring it back fixed. (Well, now maybe longer than a week since Tesla is very slow to invest in new service centers!)

I was really surprised at how many Tesla's were there in Kansas City. Its surely a loss to the firm.

Wichita, KS, 220 miles away, has at least 20 Tesla's. At our family's golf club there, I've seem about 5 different ones at the valet stand and then several more about town.

In the Midwest, if a family is doing well, its somewhat hard to spend the money once you have the house and the boat and the $60,000 pickup - why not buy (LEASE!!!!) a Tesla?

The Model S/X is perhaps a poor daily driver (outside of CA) but its certainly a status bauble in certain markets!

These dealer franchise laws are archaic like the chicken tax.

A purposely blatant way of blocking competition. Saying Tesla isn't allowed to own/operate retail shops - how is Apple or Microsoft able to do the same?