Always interested in any news involving the original signature cars. I'm always curious as to how many are still out there in the wild serving as daily drivers. Mine still is.. about 107,000 miles now I know there are many with higher mileage but so far so good. It is still tight runs and drives very well. Has not been the maintenance headache that I had thought it would or could be, knock on wood it has been a fairly reliable car.
probably at least as good or better than any I have had.
My Tesla grin has faded a little bit. first was version 9 although that's a dead horse that really doesn't need to be beaten anymore and then again with battery / charge gate. I really didn't care for the haircut that my car received and how it has behaved since then. It is not as good a vehicle as it was. Still good, but its capabilities have been reduced charging speed and range have suffered mostly charging speed my charge times at superchargers on average have nearly doubled. The maximum sustained rates are now sub 50kw pretty much regardless of the state of charge. It's nowhere near as good of a road car as it was now it has been reduced to for all intents and purposes a transportation vehicle not to exceed its single range charge from your house unless you have a lot of time.
My wife and I just spent a weekend in Flagstaff, AZ in Sig 588. We drove up from Phoenix and made it to the Supercharger with 19 rated miles left. Considering the elevation change from roughly 1000 ft above sea level in PHX to 7000 feet in Flag over 140 miles up the mountains, I didn’t think it was too bad for an 8-year old car. Got 82 kW at the Supercharger as well, which is pretty close to the original 90 kW rate.
A couple weeks prior, our 2020 Model 3 Performance made it from Phoenix to Flagstaff with about 90 rated miles remaining. So while we firsthand witnessed the rapid evolution in range and technology and the Model 3 was much more capable, the 2012 Sig with free supercharging and Level 2 80 amp charging still met all our needs and was a great joy to drive.
We actually Supercharged only once. We stayed at a hotel with 80 amp destination charging, which was perfect for overnight charging to 90% and more than enough for our excursions to Wupatki, Sunset Crater, and Walnut Canyon.
Getting home is all downhill so it used much less energy.
I’m allegedly on the waitlist for the Infortainment upgrade. I plan to keep Sig 588 going for the long haul.
First pic contains the drive stats from 4 miles north of downtown Phoenix to the Flagstaff supercharger. Once north of Phoenix, speed limit is 75. I was doing mostly 75-80.
Second photo is Sunset Crater.
In the 3rd photo, trip A is the drive home, but with a detour via Route 89A down Oak Creek into Sedona, then some truly awful, standstill, and crawling traffic on 1-17 for what seemed like 10-15 miles. Trip B are the stats for the entire trip, including day excursions and running around town.
