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Model 3 Highland Performance/Plaid Speculation [Car announced 04.23.2024]
- Thread starter Daniel L
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Rear calipers are a bit puny but they don't really need upgrading and there are options available for larger/better rear discs and pads. Most of the braking is done up front.
Once you put a decent front BBK on the M3P you struggle to overheat the stock rears, in fact bedding new rear pads can become more difficult. There may be a handful of owners who turn regen off and drive around the 'Ring all day who might benefit but for the rest of us a front BBK is all we need.
Good catch. I still can't tell from the Spain video if the spoiler is CF or not. It looked like it was the body paint color since it didn't contrast enough with the body. The one leak with the white car with the velco everywhere had a CF spoiler.
Are you letting off a ton for that 1/8 mile run? That 1/8 trap speed is incredibly low.
This is a Kia Stinger that weighs almost the exact same as a Model 3 LR. They cost about the same too.
Tiger
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Why should the bias be shifted rearwards? Remember, the rear motor is doing the regen and effectively giving more rear braking. Very few drivers will be dialling down the regen to a very low %. I rarely go lower than 70% and if I didn't have a BBK I'd be keeping it 100%.
If anything, the added regen on the rear makes the car feel a little too rear biased in some situations.
cptnslo
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That just looks like the speaker bar/ defroster vent on my model s not CF
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Maybe but it’s still strange that Lars when with Jay Leno said something like “The Model 3 RWD and Long Range have passive suspension”. If all had passive why wouldn’t you just say “The Model 3 has passive suspension”.
Not saying this is a given that it’ll be active, just I felt that gave some backing to the rumour that the Performance won’t have the same suspension as the others. It’s possible with the extra power they needed to do something to help it put that down better.
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Maybe. The last leak from China mentioned solving problems with suspension and adapting the motor(s) causing the release delay. That leaves some plausibility for a different suspension system on the P than RWD & LR.
Or, maybe lowering it 1" caused problems elsewhere.
The M3P isn't out yet, so Lars was referring to what's on sale right now, that's all. The M3P won't have any form of active suspension because it costs too much and a properly sorted conventional damper will work just fine.
Yeah, it's just a tad misleading for Koni to use that word. The same as Tein have a product called "EDFC ACTIVE" which is just motorized adjusters.
They won't be Koni branded as it's just the FSD tech. being used within Tesla-branded units.
Not discussed as much as motors, brakes and suspension but a best pic I've seen of the seats so far and they look a lot more supportive.
It's the one thing that's really difficult to sort on the original M3P.
It's the one thing that's really difficult to sort on the original M3P.
I was expecting to see them show up in the model S by now since it was leaked back in October.The updated seats have been posted a few times in this thread.
