"They've gone to Plaid"
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Ok, I had a look, couldn't find anything on here about this but the "Plaid" version of the Tesla Model S has appeared on their website.
https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/models
Allegedly 1.99 seconds to sixty, and if that isn't enough there is a Plaid Plus that will have even more power than the 1020 bhp the normal Plaid has and be even quicker.
Plaid is American for Tartan and its a reference to the Star Wars Spoor "Spaceballs", which is where the Insane and Ludicrous references also came from, I think they have run out of Spaceballs speed names now though, to be fair I am not sure where they can go from there to be honest.
They have tweaked the styling and interior and it does look rather smart, and you can go out with all the family laying waste to superbikes apparently as it will do a quarter mile in less than 9 seconds which is in F1 car territory and faster than a Chiron, be interesting to see if it matches those claims.
For the plodders amongst us, there is still the Long Range model option, which takes a leisurely 3.1 seconds to drag its hefty self to 60.
I think Elon is getting a bit carried away with the speed thing but its ended up as a party piece for a luxury saloon rather than the reason it exists.
https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/models
Allegedly 1.99 seconds to sixty, and if that isn't enough there is a Plaid Plus that will have even more power than the 1020 bhp the normal Plaid has and be even quicker.
Plaid is American for Tartan and its a reference to the Star Wars Spoor "Spaceballs", which is where the Insane and Ludicrous references also came from, I think they have run out of Spaceballs speed names now though, to be fair I am not sure where they can go from there to be honest.
They have tweaked the styling and interior and it does look rather smart, and you can go out with all the family laying waste to superbikes apparently as it will do a quarter mile in less than 9 seconds which is in F1 car territory and faster than a Chiron, be interesting to see if it matches those claims.
For the plodders amongst us, there is still the Long Range model option, which takes a leisurely 3.1 seconds to drag its hefty self to 60.
I think Elon is getting a bit carried away with the speed thing but its ended up as a party piece for a luxury saloon rather than the reason it exists.
Ohh FFS, what is it about moderation on PH that anything EV related gets flushed into the EV forum.
Ferrari based breadvan, not in the Ferrari subforum.
BMW M5, not in the BMW M subforum.
Porsche Taycan RWD on sale in the UK, in General Gassing, not EV subforum.
Tesla thread, hmm, straight into EV subforum !!!!
At least be consistent.
Ferrari based breadvan, not in the Ferrari subforum.
BMW M5, not in the BMW M subforum.
Porsche Taycan RWD on sale in the UK, in General Gassing, not EV subforum.
Tesla thread, hmm, straight into EV subforum !!!!
At least be consistent.
SDK said:
J4CKO said:
Ok, I had a look, couldn't find anything on here about this but the "Plaid" version of the Tesla Model S has appeared on their website.
Try the big Tesla Thread 
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
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