2013 Tesla Model S vs 1956 Citroën DS-19

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[Grendal]

This video is fantastic. It's giving a historic perspective of how important and significant the Model S will be in the future. Love it. Cudos to Jonny Lieberman.

 

[Soflason]

Great head-to-head, but, my pick goes to Tesla Motor Trend! :wink:

 

[GSP]

Great video. Thanks for posting it.

The DS may be the Car of the 20th Century, but "in 56 years," MT will conclude that the Tesla Model S is the car of the 21st Century.

GSP

 

[Electric1]

Great video. Thanks for posting it.

The DS may be the Car of the 20th Century, but "in 56 years," MT will conclude that the Tesla Model S is the car of the 21st Century.

GSP

Yes, but sadly, as a collector, I doubt that we will be able to maintain many of today's cars as roadworthy in another 56 years. It's far easier to remanufacture a metal part tha it is a specialized semi-conductor laden component. Today's cars are just to specialized and sophisticated.

 

[jerry33]

Great video. the DS is a great car that would take a two hour video to even start to do justice to it. I loved the one I had. There is just no feeling like starting the DS and going into hover mode.

Electric1. My hope is that the Model S will be more like an airplane where you can refresh all the parts--including the instrument suite. No, it won't be "collector original", but it will be up to date and practical.

 

[vfx]

Funny how the video sort of dismisses the DS powertrain as "ran out of time" and "No more money". Arguably the way a car is propelled is a third of any car.
Since Tesla has a clear powertrain advantage to only give it cursory acknowledgement compared to a long list of small things on the DS is doing Tesla a disservice

And no mention of handling. Where is the Tesla battery placement advantage?