Tesla Not Letting Journalists Drive Model S before Release,.. and Why

February 21st, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Tesla apparently isn’t following common practice and giving a bunch of its Model S electric vehicles to auto journalists to drive before they go on sale. Conspiracy theory and paranoia are rampant these days (I’m planning to write a post or series of posts on that on sister site Planetsave) and a number of folks are up in arms about this and joining that paranoid crowd. Chris DeMorro of sister site Gas2 brings some common sense to this decision, though. Check it out:

Tesla Will Not Let Journalists Drive Model S Before It Goes On Sale (via Gas 2.0)

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I think providing 2 or 3 cars for one day about a week before release might be a good idea. Only for the big guys. Car& Driver, Motor Trend, etc, so they can have articles out the same time people can see the car at shows and a few showrooms