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You don't need that if you have proper inventory control....

Right, they ship cars to delivery centers to match current demand. Most cars do not sit in inventory very long, they are already spoken for by orders.

This is especially true in countries where the cars are delivered by container ship. You can easily make headlines about "Tesla has record sales in <month>" and "Tesla has poor sales in <month>" based on which months the ships arrive and the cars are delivered to customers.

I'm not sure what about this indicates that they don't have inventory control.

That's exactly what I've seen so far. "Record sales of singular <type of car> in March, outsells XYZ competitor". I assumed that was part of their strategy.

This is often due to the bulk deliveries at end of quarter and only really having 1 model "per line" vs other manufacturers splitting their car lines into several variants.

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