Photo: http://www.reddit.com/user/s1lentway
Time and again, everybody scrapes his or her vehicle's alloy wheels because of distraction and negligence, but we rarely heard of somebody to crash a brand new car without even leaving the dealership's parking lot. Well, this curious incident just happened a few days ago, just outside Tesla's Store & Delivery Center neighboring the Fremont Assembly site where the Model S is built.
The picture you can see above was submitted a few hours ago on a Reddit thread titled "So I went to the Tesla dealership today and this happened…" The user that posted the pic on the social networking service tells that "We believe this is someone who just got their car. They must have been driving it for less than a minute and lost control, crashing right into the sign missing the showroom glass windows only by a few inches."
Not that's a bummer, alright. Somebody has dropped at least $70,000 on a brand new all-electric luxury sedan, waited patiently at least three months to take delivery and crashed it after less than a miles' worth of driving in the dealership's parking lot. The most damaged part of the crashed Tesla Model S is the front fascia. From what we can tell, the front fenders, headlights, grille, bonnet and underbody need replacement, while the suspension may need recalibrating and the wheels are definitely due for an alignment job.
It still boggles the mind how a car that has only two pedals can be crashed so easily. We've driven the Tesla Model S P85 and we can assure you that even though it's a pure electric drive piece of kit, the luxury sedan is just as easy to drive as your typical BMW 5 Series automatic or something similar to it. Nevertheless, information about the incident is scarce at the moment so we can't point the finger at the guy that crashed his Tesla Model S and start ROFLing ourselves senseless. Still, those Tesla signs sure are strong, alright, just like the car itself.
Not that's a bummer, alright. Somebody has dropped at least $70,000 on a brand new all-electric luxury sedan, waited patiently at least three months to take delivery and crashed it after less than a miles' worth of driving in the dealership's parking lot. The most damaged part of the crashed Tesla Model S is the front fascia. From what we can tell, the front fenders, headlights, grille, bonnet and underbody need replacement, while the suspension may need recalibrating and the wheels are definitely due for an alignment job.
It still boggles the mind how a car that has only two pedals can be crashed so easily. We've driven the Tesla Model S P85 and we can assure you that even though it's a pure electric drive piece of kit, the luxury sedan is just as easy to drive as your typical BMW 5 Series automatic or something similar to it. Nevertheless, information about the incident is scarce at the moment so we can't point the finger at the guy that crashed his Tesla Model S and start ROFLing ourselves senseless. Still, those Tesla signs sure are strong, alright, just like the car itself.
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