Model S - What's the Performance Like?

[garyjac]

Asked this again today and I've decided that my stock answer, for the foreseeable future, is going to be a phrase that was used in the 90s about hi-fi audio amps when it was desired to express power and delicacy in the one phrase.

What's the performance like?

"Like a stainless steel fist in a velvet glove" :biggrin:



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..and I'm only in a modest S 70

 

[Dborn]

Drives like a pussycat, except when it behaves like a leopard.

 

[garyjac]

Yes, as long as IT does the scratching :smile:

 

[paulp]

Had the same question once from a hoon in a loud commodore next to me. Told him I would answer the question at the next corner. The last I saw of him was a speck in my rear view mirror, so I guess he worked out the answer.

 

[garyjac]

You might have replied : "After you sir..." Always give your mechanical inferiors a head start :smile:

 

[Keiron]

After numbers of "challenges" my standard response to hoons is that Model S is the only legal dragster you can buy!

 

[Astroboy747]

I told a guy that it goes 0-100 in 5 seconds (my 70D). He dropped his jaw in amazement. Then I told him that the quickest one will do 0-100 in 3 seconds. He was still trying to fathom 5 seconds. He said "5, 5, 5 seconds?".

 

[CHG-ON]

I always say that it is like driving in a sublime limousine until I hit the go pedal and then it is a fire breathing monster.

I like yours better!

 

[Xenoilphobe]

 

[WhiteStar]

I haven't found any abandoned runways where I can try it out yet!

 

[ICUDoc]

Good metaphor. Nailed it.