Elon is getting a lot more publicity these days, with his appearance in "Revenge of the Electric Car", this PR statement is timed to take advantage of that, and boost the stock price of course, which has been, frankly pretty depressed. I hope they can make these, I am just a little sick of all of these announcements, its time to put up or shut up. How about announcing the REAL price of the Model S, delivered, with the the options that will really be required, such as leather seats.. no one is buying an $80-90K car without leather seats. There is no real set list price yet, and the options prices are still up in the air, frankly Mr Musk, we could use more "action" and less "talk"
P.S. $5K deposits are not enough to get a "Signature" edition Model S, if you go to their website, you will see to get one of the first 1,000 Signature edition Model S's with the 300 mile pack, you need to put down $40K. $5K deposit holders will likely be waiting until nearly 2013 for their cars.