Tesla has opened its latest showroom in New York City, bringing the dealer count to three in North America, including the two existing California stores. The dealership, located at 511 West 25th Street, is in the heart of Manhattan’s Chelsea arts district neighborhood and not on “auto row” at 11th and Park Avenue.
The New York store is the automaker’s fourth worldwide outlet, after the London showroom that opened earlier this year. Tesla is planning dealerships in Chicago and Seattle by the end of 2009.
The Spartan showroom won’t stock vehicles for purchase – all Teslas are made to order – but it will offer test drive vehicles for those interested in making a purchase. Looking more like an art gallery than a showroom, the dealership features concrete floors, furniture designed by R.O. Studio, the firm that designed Tesla’s logo, and a small coffee bar.
Like the other three showrooms, this one is also company-owned, not a franchise.
07/17, 9:29 AM
posted by:
Borat
Most of Brunos in that neck of the woods would not distinguish Tesla car from hairdryer.
07/17, 9:36 AM
posted by:
rightwingagenda
Hey Telsa, I happen to love burning dead dinosaurs…
07/17, 11:26 AM
posted by:
leftwingagenda
c’mon, you can troll more creatively than that, i hope, otherwise this won’t be much of a challenge…
07/17, 11:35 AM
posted by:
Kid Icarus
I can’t wait for the Seattle showroom to open later this year!
07/17, 12:03 PM
posted by:
Borat
Kid, is there a huge gay population in Seattle? In NYC dealership opened practically in epicenter of alternative lifestyle. If they don’t open dealership in Seattle soon you can visit Big APple and sample either Tesla or Bruno himself
07/17, 12:23 PM
posted by:
West Ryder Lunatic
OMG, Concrete Floors! I’ll take two!
07/17, 12:53 PM
posted by:
A4
Speaking of hairdryers, Borat, I wonder if driving one of these into a lake would have a similar effect as dropping the hairdryer into the bathtub after you realize you could have bought 2 Elises and looked less queer.
07/17, 1:04 PM
posted by:
Bankruptcy2009
Great I will be looking forward to the Chicago Store before some Idiot Lawyer down on LaSalle St Smells it up with his lawyers Arse and Snootie Wife!
07/17, 2:29 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Well I guess I’ll never be buying a Tesla. I feel uncomfortable just reading about their showrooms never mind the thought of actually being in one.
07/17, 3:00 PM
posted by:
SomeGreek
The Spartan showroom?? I now hate you Musk, you pathetic manager of the retards…
07/18, 7:14 PM
posted by:
abosco
The people who comment regularly on this site are completely retarded. Great job, let’s lambaste all upstart companies with forward thinking and increasing financial influence. Let’s make fun of companies that see the automobile as it will be in ten years and try to anticipate it instead of building H2 clones and then asking for money from taxpayers.
And most of all, let’s criticize companies looking into alternative propulsion technologies, since, you know, fossil fuels will last forever. It’s not like crude oil’s P90 R/P ratio is 41 years, or anything. (For all of the people on this site who don’t know anything about energy, that means that at the current rate of consumption, we will use up the entire supply of extractable crude oil in 41 years. Look up the BP Statistical Review 2007.)