Foundation Series Cybertruck ordering begins! $120K / 1,000 Limited Edition

[TL4]

$122k wow

For Canadians: 40% hit on the dollar, excise/duty etc...will be very tough to promote the Beast benefits with adding in the cold weather issues. Will be interesting to see the numbers completing their reservation when Canadian pricing is revealed.

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[cvalue13]

Also take note of the verbiage that deliveries have started in California and Texas. I believe this may be more than stating a fact of happenstance, and instead be further signal that the earliest Cybertruck deliveries will be to owners that are close to Fremont/GFTX, in order to allow Tesla to quickly address any issues that may come up with the truck.

And when I say issues, that means at least two buckets. The obvious one is a particular customer's truck has an issue that needs to be fixed. The less obvious one is that they realize a build-wide issue that needs to be rectified in all the units produced prior to that date.

Either way, there are not many people who know how to deal with these trucks yet, and the ones that exist are in Fremont and Austin.

 

[cvalue13]

Just as an FYI, it looks like the person posting this on X works for Tesla per LinkedIn. So this is an employee.

YEs, and in CA in particular per immediately above post RE where Foundations appear to be headed, at least so far

 

[Prime8]

What the heck is an “Order Fee”?

That's the "I bought Twitter in the worst deal in human history and need to make up for it" fee#12 ?

 

[Macgyverfever]

Sigh, why do people mis-spell it as 't-e-x-a-s' when its actually spelled 't-e-n-n-e-s-s-e-e'

FYI Free half-handle of jack daniels Elon if you deliver to me first - I know you're out there reading the smut we all write ?

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[Deleted member 17810]

FWIW I believe employees get FSD free as a "discount".

 

[Regenshire]

For those asking what the Order Fee is, its probably just the non-refundable down payment you make at time of order. In 2018 this line item was called Order Payment and was in the amount of $2500 for non-employees. The only thing shocking about it is that it is $250, which is really low for a non-refundable deposit.

 

[cvalue13]

GM and Nissan i personally know give great buy and lease discounts to their employees. By your reply im guessing Tesla doesn't?

FWIW I believe employees get FSD free as a "discount".

GM also has a friends and family discount where if you know an employee, that person can give you a # that the dealer plugs in at POS. i got 10% knocked off the price of my corvette that way and i didn't even know the person. He had the # posted on a forum to help others.

Having said that, with demand for CT, tesla may exclude it from any discount as Nissan also does not offer employee discounts on the GTR

Can't speak to whether Tesla employees broadly get vehicle or FSD discounts, as do other OEM employees - but I also imagine they do.

However, like other OEM employees, those discounts typically don't apply to certain 'halo' or limited production vehicles. Or at least, they're modified heavily downward.


So just like a standard Ford employee isn't getting much or any angle on a Raptor R, I doubt few if any standard Tesla employees are being extended deals on the Foundation units.


I mean, the guy from twitter posting his email in this thread is a CA Tesla (Fremont I believe?) employee

 

[fritter63]

Sigh, why do people mis-spell it as 't-e-x-a-s' when its actually spelled 't-e-n-n-e-s-s-e-e'

"All my ex's live in Texas.... and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee!"

 

[Sevoflurane]

Deliveries starting in California and Texas, I have a second home in Texas. Maybe I should change my Tesla account address to that one? Possible earlier delivery? I have a day one reservation.

 

[Hello4x]

The Foundation series invites are likely separate from the normal reservations we all have.

Tesla is only going to send these to select people that they have on a special list. They will probably only be inviting major investors, employees, early Tesla customers, influencers, previous Founders series owners, and other special cases would be my assumption.

I would be shocked if anyone outside of a special curated list is invited to order a Foundation series.

Seems like they would have to be an early reservation holder as well. Screenshots shows minus $100 for early reservation.

 

[fritter63]

Just checked my email.

Nothing from Tesla, but there are 3 young women in Estonia that REALLY want to meet me, and I have an undelivered package that requires me to "click on this link"....

 

[cvalue13]

Deliveries starting in California and Texas, I have a second home in Texas. Maybe I should change my Tesla account address to that one? Possible earlier delivery? I have a day one reservation.

that is not a bad plan, based on nothing more than educated guessing

i have an international friend who has changed their address to mine, and if the timing works will "store" it my place for some time

 

[Macgyverfever]

"All my ex's live in Texas.... and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee!"

You damn right

 

[Deleted member 17810]

Can't speak to whether Tesla employees broadly get vehicle or FSD discounts, as do other OEM employees - but I also imagine they do.

However, like other OEM employees, those discounts typically don't apply to certain 'halo' or limited production vehicles. Or at least, they're modified heavily downward.


So just like a standard Ford employee isn't getting much or any angle on a Raptor R, I doubt few if any standard Tesla employees are being extended deals on the Foundation units.


I mean, the guy from twitter posting his email in this thread is a CA Tesla (Fremont I believe?) employee

They get the FSD in lieu of a discount. Someone told me the salesperson was like , it's like getting 7k! -_-

it's software brah.

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