'Falcon' doors a flop?

Michael Karpf flew earlier this month to the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, Calif., to pick up his new Model X electric sport-utility vehicle--known for a 200-plus mile battery range and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's claim that it's "the fastest SUV in history." The 75-year-old retiree planned to drive it across the country with his wife and son to their home in New Rochelle, N.Y. But the new-car gleam of Karpf's 138,000 titanium-on-beige P90D Model X faded with a string of problems as soon as he left the factory--delaying his journey. One of the wildly designed, upswinging "falcon wing" rear doors failed to close. The other falcon wing door failed to open, except from the inside.