Tesla making ALL HYPERCARS IRRELEVANT!!!!

[daveman]

Latest Tesla PLAID+ EDITION, 4 DOOR, scorches the quarter in 9.2 seconds at over 150 MPH, Leno took it down the quarter with 2 people and equipment in it and went 9.52 all on STOCK TIRES!....COST $149,990....Also making one about 1/2 second slower called just a plaid for $120,000!....put that engineering into the 2 door, good looking roadster due out in 2022 and KISS THOSE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES good bye...good for NOSTALGIA racing!....Range said to be up to 500 miles IF driven sanely!!!

$150K.

You really think this is going to replace Mr. and Mrs. Average America's sedan?

The loaded +Edition of the Model S Plaid? No. That is the high end.

But the Model Y is capable of 300+ miles on a charge, gets to 60mph in 3.5 seconds, seats 5, and can be had nicely options for $50k to $55k.

More reasonable.

 

[WinterBorn]

Latest Tesla PLAID+ EDITION, 4 DOOR, scorches the quarter in 9.2 seconds at over 150 MPH, Leno took it down the quarter with 2 people and equipment in it and went 9.52 all on STOCK TIRES!....COST $149,990....Also making one about 1/2 second slower called just a plaid for $120,000!....put that engineering into the 2 door, good looking roadster due out in 2022 and KISS THOSE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES good bye...good for NOSTALGIA racing!....Range said to be up to 500 miles IF driven sanely!!!

$150K.

You really think this is going to replace Mr. and Mrs. Average America's sedan?

The loaded +Edition of the Model S Plaid? No. That is the high end.

But the Model Y is capable of 300+ miles on a charge, gets to 60mph in 3.5 seconds, seats 5, and can be had nicely options for $50k to $55k.

More reasonable.

Actually, the decision to start their lineup with a high end luxury car was brilliant. They targeted the demographic that could afford the risk and would love to be able to brag about "helping the environment".

 

[daveman]

Latest Tesla PLAID+ EDITION, 4 DOOR, scorches the quarter in 9.2 seconds at over 150 MPH, Leno took it down the quarter with 2 people and equipment in it and went 9.52 all on STOCK TIRES!....COST $149,990....Also making one about 1/2 second slower called just a plaid for $120,000!....put that engineering into the 2 door, good looking roadster due out in 2022 and KISS THOSE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES good bye...good for NOSTALGIA racing!....Range said to be up to 500 miles IF driven sanely!!!

$150K.

You really think this is going to replace Mr. and Mrs. Average America's sedan?

The loaded +Edition of the Model S Plaid? No. That is the high end.

But the Model Y is capable of 300+ miles on a charge, gets to 60mph in 3.5 seconds, seats 5, and can be had nicely options for $50k to $55k.

More reasonable.

Actually, the decision to start their lineup with a high end luxury car was brilliant. They targeted the demographic that could afford the risk and would love to be able to brag about "helping the environment".

Oh, yes, optics is all-important to the performative environmentalism crowd.

Toyota released the Prius about the same time Honda released a hybrid Accord.

The Accord didn't sell well, even though its specs were better than the Prius'.

Why? Because the Prius looked different; everybody knew it was a hybrid. There was no ICE Prius the hybrid was developed from. The people who bought the Prius were making sure they were seen as saving the planet.

And that, of course, is more important than actually saving the planet.