Motor Trend Reviews Tesla P85D, Drools & Froths Uncontrollably - GoFuckYourself.com

2MuchMark · 11-05-2014, 03:16 PM

Awesome...

From http://www.greencarreports.com/news/...ably?fbfanpage

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Been searching for stratospheric levels of soaring, over-the-top, heavens-rattling hyperbole lately?

You will do no better than the recent road test of the Tesla Model S P85D, published on Monday by Motor Trend.

That's the new dual-motor all-wheel-drive version of its signature electric car, revealed last month by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.

MT writer Kim Reynolds liked the car, to put it mildly.

And he really liked its acceleration.

At the P85D's splashy intro event, Musk explained that the design goal of the P85D was to match the 3.2-second 0-to-60-mph time of the legendary $1 million McLaren F1 supercar--one of which Musk had owned (and crashed) in his younger days.

eynolds was lucky enough to have tested the F1 back then, and described its 0-to-60-mph experience this way: "It was among the most shattering few seconds of my life ... I just hung the hell on as the world melted into a smear ... Launch one of Musk's Falcon 9 rockets horizontally, and you'll get the idea."

(Not quite: A 0-to-60 time of 3.2 seconds equates to 0.86 G acceleration. A Falcon 9 v1.1 launched horizontally would theoretically pull about 1.15 G--the equivalent of 0 to 60 mph in 2.4 seconds. But who's counting?)

Astonishingly, in the Motor Trend test, the Model S managed to beat the F1's time by one tenth of a second--without all the noise and commotion.

"It's instead a rail-gun rush down a quarter-mile of asphalt bowling lane," Reynolds writes.

"The torque impacts your body with the violence of facing the wrong way on the train tracks when the whistle blows." (We assume that means getting hit by a train from the rear.)

He goes on to say that the P85D's acceleration "slams the sense out of you ... you're not so much accelerating as (being) pneumatically suctioned into the future."

Insane mode

The P85D has three different driving modes: Normal, Sport, and Insane. (Yes, it literally says "Insane" on the touch-screen mode selector.)

Comments Reynolds, "...as insane goes, [the P85D] makes Charlie Manson look like Charlie Rose."

The Motor Trend test runs in the P85D were so fast that the magazine's high-frequency GPS data loggers couldn't keep up. It handily beat the fastest-accelerating sedan that MT had previously tested, the Audi RS7.

(Ironically, the Audi A7 series is almost a gasoline clone of the Model S: a sleek five-door hatchback of virtually the same size, power, and price. Note to MT and other car magazines: How 'bout a side-by-side comparison test?)

An interesting tidbit from the article is a quote from Musk. He claims that, on average, Tesla implements 20 hardware changes per week (hopefully all improvements) on the Model S.

That amounts to 1,000 changes per year, and a total of 2,500 or so since production began.

Reynolds ends his article by effectively anointing the P85D the new king of the high-performance sedan world--currently populated by Mercedes-Benz AMG, BMW M, and Audi RS.

"Game over, guys," he writes. "The quickest accelerating sedan in the world isn't German anymore."

"It's from California. As they say in Palo Alto: Auf Wiedersehen!"

Go Tesla!

dyna mo · 11-05-2014, 03:23 PM

'Merica, fuck yah.

L-Pink · 11-05-2014, 03:32 PM

Mark, sell the Volt and get a Tesla.

2MuchMark · 11-05-2014, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by L-Pink

Mark, sell the Volt and get a Tesla.

Would love to, trust me. For me this year it was either a Tesla and no new house, or new house + a Volt. Went for the Volt and currently building the house. Maybe in a few years...

L-Pink · 11-05-2014, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by **********

Would love to, trust me. For me this year it was either a Tesla and no new house, or new house + a Volt. Went for the Volt and currently building the house. Maybe in a few years...

Well your priorities are correct and battery life will do nothing but improve so waiting's no big deal.

Incase others are reading this we should exchange a few insults, you go first.

Mutt · 11-05-2014, 05:38 PM

I'm a huge supporter of anything Musk does. We need more like him, we need to identify kids who have potential to become Elon Musks and do everything to help them realize their potential. We need to search the world and look for the young Einsteins, recruit them just like colleges recruit high school football studs and get them on our team.

The world will always need its ditch diggers, we have those by the million already.

2MuchMark · 11-05-2014, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by L-Pink

Well your priorities are correct and battery life will do nothing but improve so waiting's no big deal.

Incase others are reading this we should exchange a few insults, you go first.

"Your Momma's so fat..."

DamageX · 11-06-2014, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Mutt

I'm a huge supporter of anything Musk does. We need more like him, we need to identify kids who have potential to become Elon Musks and do everything to help them realize their potential. We need to search the world and look for the young Einsteins, recruit them just like colleges recruit high school football studs and get them on our team.

Opportunity cost too high. Football studs, a couple of years until break-even/profit. Scientists/inventors, decades until break-even/profit. Idealism aside, which one would you go for?

slapass · 11-06-2014, 05:38 AM

I love this car! I test drove a regular Tesla and you get the weird feel of no lag when you punch it. Amazing ride.

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L-Pink working on my tan Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida/Kentucky Posts: 39,151	Mark, sell the Volt and get a Tesla.

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slapass Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 14,622	I love this car! I test drove a regular Tesla and you get the weird feel of no lag when you punch it. Amazing ride.