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Those lucky enough to have reserved a Tesla Model 3 are benefitting from regular updates on their 'My Tesla' page, and the latest is that the company is well on track for the car's promised 2017 delivery date. The company has also revealed that the Model 3 Configurator will be made available to customers depending on when they placed their reservation, though the update at least shows us one more colour which is likely to be available - a dark blue which we've not seen before.

Tesla's latest accounts show that the company has 373,000 people waiting for their Model 3 after dropping a $1,000 deposit. The company hopes that 200,000 of these orders will be fulfilled in 2017, ahead of the firm's 2018 goal to take annual production to 500,000 vehicles.

The Model 3 will go head-to-head with the established big sellers in the compact executive car class. Production will being in America in 2017 with first cars expected in the UK in 2018. It will have a starting price of $35,000 (£24,400) in the US but Elon Musk hinted that most models will be sold for closer to $42,000 (£29,400) once options are added. Shifting units is unlikely to be a problem in any case with Tesla reporting that 276,000 pre-orders had been taken for the Model 3 by the end of 2 April, just two days after the reveal.