Hello and welcome to the Friday July 20th 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we are talking about the first reviews and VIN numbers for Performance Model 3s,

as well as some news on Tesla's order rates.

Tesla stock on Thursday closed down 1.12% to $320.23.

This compared to the Nasdak down 0.37%.

So despite the fact that the macro environment held up relatively well yesterday. We did not end up

closing in the green like I thought that we would. The other prediction was

staying above $325 as we head into the couple days prior to earnings. I'll stick

with that for now and we'll see if I can go over too.

Overall though I am feeling really good about where Tesla is at right now.

One of the reasons for that is that we're starting to see the first reviews for the

Performance Model 3. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal came out with the first review ever

on the Performance Model 3.

And the review overall I think was extremely positive.

One of the key statements in the review reads, quote,

I'm no financial analyst, but do no cars if you were hoping

Tesla would fail on account of the model three I've got bad news this thing is

magnificent a little rainbow-farting spaceship so obviously representative of the next step in the history of autos."

End quote.

I think the last part of that statement there is beautifully phrased, so obviously representative

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