After Tesla is done delivering Founders and Signature editions of its Model X SUV, the company will offer a 70D model later next year with a 220 mile range for $80,000 plus $1,200 for shipping. A 90D, with a range of 257 miles and quicker sprint up to 60 mph, will be offered as well, but the company hasn’t disclosed how much that will cost.
Automotive News reported that the automaker updated its online configurator for potential customers to configure their base cars. A 70D Model X with every option checked tops out around $100,000.
The public Model X page only lists the 90D as deliverable next year, which Automotive News speculated could mean that the company may make the 70D available later in the year or 2017.
Tesla may need to sell 500,000 cars by 2020 to meet projected goals by shareholders.
According to pictures posted by potential Model X owners, the list of configurable options includes seating for seven ($4,000) or seating for six ($3,000). Seating for five people is standard in the Model X.
Tech upgrades include AutoPilot ($2,500) and a suite of premium features such as bioweapons-grade air filtration, automatic powered driver’s door and ventilated front seats ($4,500), and ultra-premium audio ($2,500).
Air suspension is $2,500, but will be standard on 90D models. Tesla’s cold-weather package ($1,000) and towing package for up to 5,000 pounds ($750) are also included in the online configurator.
A similarly optioned Model S 70D would cost $87,700 before tax incentives including $1,200 for shipping.
“Tesla may need to sell 500,000 cars by 2020 to meet projected goals by shareholders.”
In other words: “Tesla may be hosed.”
I wish them the best of luck though. The Model X looks to be a rarer sight than the S at first, but before long it will likely blend seamlessly into the trafficsphere like its lower-slung sister.
It’s the Model 3 I’m interested in, and we’ve seen and heard so little about it, it’s not unrealistic to assume we won’t see many on roads before 2020.
Silly flippy door design mandates LUDICROUS rear hitch for snowboards and bikes. Look at that thing! Have fun backing that up anywhere without stand-outside assistance.
Also I have decided that overall it’s quite ugly looking.
So in other words it’ll sell like hotcakes. Hopefully that’ll give Tesla the ability to build the performance cars enthusiasts want.
Towing package? Really? On a battery powered vehicle? Might as well install a button that says “reduce range to 1/2”. However I guess the same can be said about ICE vehicles when towing. I just assumed Tesla would not be encouraging towing.
Range Anxiety. What Range Anxiety? I can drive a whopping 257 miles! Whoopee Doo
Yeah Towing was the first thing I thought when I go out and get one of these..lmao…1/2 aint the word..try 1/3 of the range. IN extreme heat or cold it aint going to work well.
Lots of cars and many SUVs use hitch mounts. A tow package is interesting; torque shouldn’t be an issue.
The silly doors arent going to bode well inside garages.
I do agree though, ugly and badly designed overall.
The gullwing doors have ‘smart articulation’, which accommodates nearby vehicles and low ceilings without striking them.
There is a video of the doors opening with the Model X parked 12 inches away from two minivans; it’s pretty impressive. I haven’t seen these doors operate in a garage, though.
But to your point, a low garage (like mine) simply won’t work.
I see customers complaining about the doors often given the target audience (Grocery Moms looking to boost their image), gullwing doors are better on coupes.
pretty sure its got lots of cameras and big screens to view them on.
I’ll bet the “affordable” Model 3, by the time it’s optioned up to something desirable, will sell for north of $60K.
It wouldn’t surprise me if $60k was the average new car price in 3-4 years.
You think ATP will go from about $35K to $60K in 3 to 4 years?!?!
Do you know something about exploding inflation none of us do?
as long as it takes my wages with it, bring on the long lost home loan payoff tool known as inflation.
There might be a version of the Model 3 that goes for $60k. But I believe that although a base version might go for $35k, most will sell for $45k.
BMW is already there with the i3, and Ford with its F-150.
What was the rationale for the doors?
“Gullwings are cool, bro!”
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I mean, I figure that has to be it, because *nothing else makes any sense*.
How about China? Flappy doors will ameliorate that roofline and make it vastly easier to get in the rear seats to *be* driven, a seeming preference over there.
According to a higher-up at Volvo the Chinese thing for extended wheelbases isn’t due to more people having a chauffeur, but rather a cultural thing where your friend sits in the back if the two of you are out for a drive. Sure more people have a chauffeur but not the majority of buyers of EWB cars. Your point is still valid though.
‘What was the rationale for the doors?”
I bet the rationale is as follows:
Swinging doors are lousy for kid loading.
Sliding doors are exclusively for parents who care more about practicality than looks. Also, they freeze shut in icy conditions.
So, Tesla chose a distinctive 3rd way. And, yes, they thought about any engineered their ear around the obvious ceiling and side clearance problems — these folks embrace engineering and business risk, but they’re far from stupid.
I expect that their planned lower cost vehicles will be more conventional, because of the lower margin, and because they have less need to justify a a crazy-expenive price.
Wouldn’t a gull wing door be even more susceptible to freezing shut? if you can fit the gull wing with powerful enough motors to push the door open then surly a sliding door can be fitted with similar motors.
The disadvantage of sliding doors is that you need to clear snow and ice all the way down the side of the car. With a swinging door (vertical or horizontal) you only need to clear ice around the seam, and only in the worse case. Most of the time you just open it normally.
Obviously a gull wing door needs to be powerful enough to lift the accumulated ice and snow, but that’s an implementation issue.
Well, does it have properly bolted down seatbelt anchors as standard for $80,000? Plus $1200 for shipping and no PDI in most places due to lack of service centers?
Those doors will kill this vehicle. Never has been a machine made in any real quantity that had weird doors that ever worked properly. And if you’re upside down in a ditch during a snowstorm, good luck getting out. Rescue crews have to deal with a ton of batteries right above your sorry ass as well.
Ah sorry, just don’t get Tesla. They’re like trinket jewel accessory of the week wrote LARGE.
Front doors would still open. Motivation would do the rest.
Upside down in a ditch? Well you might be screwed just as you might be with conventional doors. That’s why fire departments have the jaws of life. “Falconwings” won’t be the first doors to get wedged shut in an accident.
You still have the hatch and the front doors not to mention the windows. Plus, no gasoline pouring out of the fuel tank. Besides, with a huge portion of the weight at the bottom of the vehicle, it’s not likely to end up upside down.
The version I want is $83k. All I need is the money.
How does anyone find this bulbous beast visually attractive?
Also…towing? LOL.
Not a Tesla fan but in fairness what CUV (and I use the term loosely here) is visually attractive?
I think the offense here is to sacrifice utility to a craven attempt at sleekness like an over-the-hill diva torturing herself into a corset so tight she can’t sing. And still looks fat.
Just be fat and belt it out.
Enclave
Acadia
Outlook
Explorer
Q7
Toureaorawareg
The artist formerly known as EX35
1st-gen MKX
Taurus X
…all look more attractive.
Maybe because I’m not an Apple nerd and I haven’t spent hours at the Genius Bar, but it has all the visual inspiration of a Ford Aspire…
http://img903.imageshack.us/img903/332/Dzm7mN.jpg
I think it’s gorgeous, but I’m a fan already. However, I’ll admit to doubting that a Model 3 with a Cd of 0.20 will look good.
As for towing: if it cuts the range in half, then obviously nobody will be towing cross-country with a Model X. I can tell you that towing with my minivan cuts its range by up to half.
Here’s a thought – whatever is towed behind a Model X had better look the part. I tow U-Hauls, which may automatically disqualify me from ever owning an X.
Tough to envision this towing anything bigger than a jet ski or a small trailer. Towing with a minivan is possible, as refueling takes a few minutes. With the hit on mileage and no equivalent quick ‘top off’ for Tesla, it’s limited to local towing only. Which should be fine to take a jet ski to a nearby lake.
Looks like a dog dropping a deuce, like most other vehicles of this shape.
“How does anyone find this bulbous beast visually attractive?”
I do.
It rooks like a big Prius. We currently own a Prius, and would like a 3-row version.
Alas, the Model X is too upscale for me. A lot of the cool features (like that enormous windshield, the robot doors, and the air suspension) are going to be expensive to maintain in 10-20 years. When a car costs as much as a house, it had better last as long as a house (lease queens are of limited interest).
The dumb parade is out in full force. I bet if you all focussed hard at the same time you could levitate a ping pong ball. Impressive!!
At least the “dumb parade” knows about one great invention, it called “the comma”.
Probert perfectly and opportunely links Flybrain’s reference to Apple nerds with a Teslite’s impenetrable smugness.
You dont like them cuz yor dumm an yor mommas on welfair!
Tesla people drive like dicks in SF