Leakers have good reason to protect their identity. Especially when Tesla fans get so clearly agitated about anything that can be even remotely construed as negative toward Tesla and/or Musk.
> particularly the one saying there are tons of RWD Long Range cars just sitting. The claim that they have them in inventory but aren't selling them just beggars belief.
Why do you need to be "suspicious" of something as obvious as the below. These are just 3 examples that appear like you can place the order. Those are all LR RWDs (they only comprise 2.4% of the dataset, so I agree that LR RWDs are basically non-existent)
* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA7JF136358
* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA9JF118167
* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA0JF062734
> I also wonder if he's sure they're US cars
The sixth digit in the VIN is a '7' for European cars and '1' for North American Model 3s. 100% of these VINs have a '1' in the sixth position. There's also 10,848 vehicles listed, quite a few more than the 8500 in the headline.
> For 3 weeks solid I saw at least one transporter full of Euro-spec 3s going up 101 to SF to be shipped overseas.
Yes, they have sent 5 ships to Europe and 4 to China so far. Estimates are 2,500 cars per ship. A 10th ship just arrived on Sunday. So yes that's ~25,000 cars going to Pier 80 in San Franciso so far this quarter.