Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
Pushing deliveries back a few months is either a sign of demand for the short-range, or a sign that the short-range battery production line isn't going at full speed yet. It's too early to know, nor does it matter, since those customers will eventually get their cars.
Your guess, have another? Your guessing tends to obfuscate the real issue, that a $35K M3 is basically not profitable
now. Remember just a few months ago Elon stated that the M3 cost was $38K. Even with all the overhead cost reductions,
e.g. sales operations, a $35K M3 has still resulted in being basically unprofitable in Q1 of 2019. Again as usual, it's all about
generating more reservations:
1. announce availability of the M3 at $35K in Q1 of 2019 and re-build interest
2. announce deliveries in a few weeks
3. start taking another round of reservations
4. wait a few weeks for reservations to accumulate
5. move $35K deliveries to future quarters, or don't even re-schedule
6. attempt to convert $35K reservations to higher priced M3s
Have many totally forgotten what happen just three years ago?