Episode 135: Model 3 Line-Waiters' 'Something Special' Revealed
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The "something special" for Model 3 line-waiters is finally revealed, I stumbled upon a Dual Motor Model 3 in San Francisco, Porsche throws a little shade in the direction of Model S, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | The something special for model three line waiters is finally revealed. |
| 0:07.6 | I stumbled upon a dual motor model three in San Francisco. |
| 0:11.4 | Porsche throws a little shade in the direction of Model S and more. Oh, Ryan McCaffrey here, Daisy the Boxer puppy over there. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:40.3 | It is the Tesla Unofficial podcast episode number 135 for March 4th 2018. |
| 0:47.0 | We are into March and lots going on this week. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't even want to mess around. Let's get right right to it I want to tell you first about the something |
| 0:55.3 | special that we've been waiting and waiting on and wondering is it ever coming I honest |
| 1:00.1 | to be honest I'd given up hope. I thought the ship sailed, it's not happening, |
| 1:05.2 | deliveries have been happening, and I wasn't too broken up about it. Again, you know, I |
| 1:09.5 | waited in line to get a car. Anything else would have been a nice little bonus. And it turns |
| 1:14.2 | out we will in fact get that nice little bonus. The so-called something special |
| 1:19.7 | is a Die cast model three |
| 1:23.2 | uh... which was first posted to read it |
| 1:26.0 | and has since sort of made its way around a little bit including a |
| 1:29.4 | a guy on YouTube was sent one by someone at Tesla and I watched his unboxing video to show it off. |
| 1:37.0 | And I have to say, you know, it's pretty nice. It's pretty nice. It's not huge, like if you happen to have seen the crazy detailed, very expensive |
| 1:47.8 | dye cast model S, the Tesla cells for I think a couple hundred dollars, it's not that. It is a 1 to 43 scale. |
| 1:56.6 | It looks like from what I can tell that it's roughly maybe twice the size of a matchbox or |
| 2:02.0 | Hot Wheels car. In fact, right on my desk as I record I have a let's |
| 2:06.5 | see it's the it's a Hot Wheels Tesla Roadster and let's see a matchbox white. |
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