Re:The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
by mseebach on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:27AM
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Ford makes status-symbol cars, so that's irrelevant. The important question is, could Ford produce a car, status symbol or not, that 200k people would put down even a refundable $1k deposit on, sight unseen?
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Re:The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
by serge2k on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:10PM
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Going back to the F-150 again, it's a status symbol for some people. I could probably go down to a dealer today and grab one with with most/all of what I want, or wait a little bit and get what I want.
A deposit isn't needed. It's a silly comparison anyway as the Tesla is an entirely new thing, vs already established.
A better comparison would be if 5 years from Tesla announced a new major revision of the model 3 (similar to what ford did with the F-150 this last year) and got 200k orders immediately.
now all this being said, if Ford announced a brand new electric vehicle tomorrow with similar specs/price as the Tesla I really doubt they could get preorders like this.