"This should come as no surprise," said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with Autotrader. "This is the first volume vehicle they've ever produced. Making cars is not an easy business, and they're finding that out."

But the Model 3 is not the first time it has fallen well behind promised production targets. Tesla's high-priced crossover, the Model X, went into production in late 2015, long after originally promised and had a slower-than-expected roll out. Production of the Model S sedan, its best selling vehicle to date, was also much slower than originally promised.

Krebs said Tesla missing deadlines is "part of their track record."

But Tesla said those problems are now well behind it, and the company said it had record production of both those luxury models in the third quarter -- building just over 25,000 of the two models in that quarter. It expects to deliver about 100,000 of those models in 2017.

Fit and finish are excellent for an early production model.

I am not really sure how to price the car but it is in obvious demand.

This car meets all of the hype and I plan on owning another in the future.

Luxury electric carmaker Tesla plans to slash by 40% its orders for parts for the new Model 3 mass-market sedan from Taiwanese auto component maker Hota Industrial Mfg. from December, according to a media report.Shares of the parts maker dropped nearly 9% after the Economic Daily News reported, citing Hota Chairman Shen Kuo-jung, that Tesla had told the firm orders would be cut to 3,000 sets per week from 5,000 sets starting December, due to a “bottleneck” in the production of Model 3.Tesla may delay scheduled weekly shipments of 10,000 parts in March by a few weeks until May or June, the report added.Hota, which makes gears and axles for vehicles, and Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Earlier this month, Tesla said production bottlenecks had left the company behind its planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 sedan. It began production of the model in July.