[breser]

No the base price is $35,000. They simply haven't started letting anyone buy the $35,000 versions yet. You can say this is a failure on the part of Tesla. But this is not the first time they've had a lower end model that was planned but not immediately available upon production. Case in point when the All Wheel Drive Model S was announced, they didn't make non-performance versions available for several months after.

[qbrass]

It doesn't stop everyone from saying they make $35,000 cars. So it's a success, not a failure on the part of Tesla.