Florida man decides to cancel his $160,000 1-of-250 final Signature Edition Tesla Model S order after seeing small print

This man had placed an order for a 1-of-250 final Signature Edition Tesla Model S, but once he saw something he didn’t like in the small print, he pulled the plug.

Brooks Weisblat, the host of YouTube channel DragTimes, had made the order when he heard that the Model S was being discontinued.

Describing a feeling of ‘FOMO’, he bought a red 2026 Model S demo car with only 30 miles on the clock.

Then when Tesla announced a ‘Signature Final Edition’, he was all-in – but one thing led to him cancelling that order.

When the Tesla Model S was discontinued, this man wanted to make one last purchase – but there was a problem

The ‘Signature Final Edition’ was to be a limited run of 250 cars, priced at $159,000.

Weisblat happily put down his deposit, but then did some further reading.

“I again pressed the order button and that was a $2,500 down payment and I figured I would just sell my 26 and get the new 26 with the signature edition,” he recalled.

“Then I realized that there was a no sale agreement on the 26 Signature and if I bought that and I couldn’t sell this one right here, I’d be kind of stuck and I could lose a lot of money.”

This prompted him to cancel his order.

But that wasn’t the only issue he had with the whole arrangement – he described the lack of a track pack as a ‘stickler’.

“The track pack on the Tesla Model S is a 20-in wheel package with light wheels, it was out of stock,” he explained.

“So I was going to be stuck with the new Tesla Model S without the track pack.”

Here’s why the model was discontinued

When news broke back in January that the Model S and Model X were being discontinued.

“As we shift to an autonomous future, Model S & X production will wind down next quarter. If you’d like to own one of them, now’s a good time to place your order. Tesla wouldn’t be what it is today without Model S & X and their early owners – thank you for your support over the last decade,” the company’s message read.

This led to rampant speculation about the reasons behind this decision.

Many suspected that falling sale figures may have played a part.

Representatives from Tesla put those rumors to rest in a recent podcast interview, explaining that the decision was driven not by popularity, but by aging safety architecture and the need for more manufacturing space.