Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

40k trade in for a SR+ 2020, 22,000kms...

That's not...terrible?

I'd say call a few dealers I got nearly 5k more than the tesla trade in price on my 2019 M3p in November off a garage, the tesla trade in price wasn't too bad either

I was actually expecting less. When I bought the car 2 years ago the amount they offered for my Ioniq was laughable!

I guess with a Tesla they resell themselves at a premium.

I'm only half interested in trading up if the gap between this and LR is not too much.

Hi all

Looking for your opinion.

Model 3 LR in inventory Tesla gave assigned to my account. Which is great but it's a 2021 model

Would you wait for a 2022 model with the possibility of getting the MCU3 among other small updates.

Im in no panic for the car so can wait till march if needed

New cars due in march will have the newer AMD mcu and a few other updates if you're in no rush I'd definitely wait for a 2022 car unless it's working out cheaper

Most likely they will I'd assume if they're arriving in February they would be probably in transit at the moment

Tesla numbers are in from stats.beepbeep.ie and make interesting reading.

878 cars M3's registered in 2021 compared to 724 in 2021 an increase of 18.5%.

In that time the overall EV market has jumped 115% with 8646 EV registered in 2021 compared to 4013 in 2020. This shows there is a market there but this maybe not a priority market for Tesla.

If you look at the UK market Tesla was the 2nd best selling car overall 34,783 (increase of 40%) where as in Ireland Tesla wasn't even the best selling EV and 39th on the list overall.

If you look at this in regards population 67 million Vs 5 million and registrations if Ireland was on a par with the UK we would have 2434 registrations/deliveries when we had 878 (35% of that). Irish and UK adoption rate % have been very similar in the last year's jumped a lot in UK but this driven by Tesla, no doubt would have been the same here with a better supply

In my view the reason for this is Tesla focusing on UK for RHD due the energy crisis (in UK) and also Brexit has impacted Ireland here as instead of cars being dropped in Southampton and transported their taken to Zeebrugge and logistics are more difficult. Easier for them just to offload RHD's for UK market.

Poor form from Tesla in my view bit part acknowledgment of Irish market. Anyways there's the stats looked at from my side but also be aware I have an order in since last August and gotten diddly squat.

I don't think demand is an issue, while delivering those 1000s of model 3s in the UK in December they delivered 87 in Ireland and pushed orders, including some that date back to August out to March. So they aren't even meeting the existing demand.

If there was an attractive salary sacrifice scheme we'd probably be waiting years!

Still being able to sell everything you can make isn't a bad position for them at least.

Anyone who wants an M3 in Ireland can get one - so surely the only difference between here and the Uk is:

1. our list price
2. and the fact that the UK love cheap lease deals, which drives volume
3. the M3 is a small 4-door saloon, which isn’t really a big market here, at all.

tesla are simply running out of buyers here, now that all the long time deposit holders and hard saving tesla-only buyers have got their cars.

Let’s see what happens in H1 this year. the entry level Tesla is €52k, still very high versus the competition, but now it’s gone from being a so-so model to arguably the pick of the litter, with the recent upgrades.

the MY will suffer the same fate - early promise as incredibly patient deposit holders get their deliveries, and then sink into niche model obscurity due to its entry level price.

We're only a small market here with only 2 service centers selling 800-900 cars here a year ain't too bad all over 50k as well, probably keep 2nd hand prices high too, if tesla were selling a higher volume they would need 3 or 4 more service centers. I don't think they'll be a drop in demand anytime soon