The Tesla Mannequin 3 was lately revealed to be the most American vehicle you can buy, however in keeping with one parking attendant at a GM facility, it’s a ‘overseas’ automobile.
A picture lately surfaced on social media that reveals a Model 3 hit with a parking violation on the Normal Motors Wentville Meeting plant in Missouri. The ticket states the Mannequin 3 is a “overseas [car] in home lot”.
On the manufacturing unit in query, Normal Motors has devoted parking areas for GM automobiles, non-GM home automobiles, and automobiles from overseas automakers. Evidently, the Tesla was parked within the non-GM home automobiles lot, however the parking attendant thought it ought to have been within the overseas lot.
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“Wentzville, like a lot of our manufacturing websites, has a parking coverage and designated parking places for GM automobiles, non-GM home automobiles and overseas nameplates,” a GM spokesperson instructed The Drive. “Plant safety inadvertently thought the Tesla was a overseas automobile and wrote a ticket accordingly.”
The spokesperson added that the parking violation was merely a warning and never a ticket, that means the Mannequin 3 proprietor gained’t need to pay for the parking attendant’s mistake.
Whereas Tesla may not be round for many years, like Normal Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, we suspect that, by now, most individuals know it’s an American model. Evidently, the parking attendant in query wants to higher familiarize themselves with overseas and home vehicles.