2012 Detroit Auto Show Thread

[Adm]

He just lacks imagination. You can give Model S any sound you want: Ferrari, Big Block V8, BMW M5 or as I will: total silence. Try and do that with an ICE!

 

[Doug_G]

I think he's just being a bit whimsical. I think he'd like to see what's inside the cylinders.

I tried to ask the engineers some questions about what was inside those cylinders at the factory event. Didn't get very far at all before "that's proprietary" popped out.

 

[Mycroft]

Jim Motavalli: Detroit Auto Show: The excitement's back

A perfect 300… Jerome Guillen, program manager for the Tesla Model S, told me there is “zero doubt” that the car’s Signature edition (which sat on the show stand) would be capable off achieving 300-mile range on a charge. He spent 10 years at Daimler (which owns part of Tesla), and he said the Model S was the “most innovative car” he’d ever worked on. He pointed with pride to a seven-foot long bright molding unbroken by door openings, the kind of thing perfectionists like Elon Musk (and Steve Jobs) demand (and get).

It's definitely the most innovative car I've ever seen!