This is incorrect. They had two cars. A blue one with pano (and other options) was used for street photos:
The red one used for instrumented testing at the track did not have a pano roof:
Their gallery function sucks, but if you click "show more" near the bottom of the article, you can see the pictures of the red car.
Newer P90DL makes 662 hp at the battery!!!
I think we all remember F= MA from physics, but this is NOT a Pano/No Pano Roof issue--it's about POWER, or lack thereof. For P85DL and P90DL buyers, our "F" is too damn small based upon what was promised both on the website and through Tesla's "advertising."
Thus, I suggest new name for this problem: "Countergate 691/762"
Here's why the title needs the supplement. Tesla has a BIG ethics/legal problem here:
1. Tesla provided P90DL's to both Car and Driver and MotorTrend, two of the biggest, most respected names in the automobile review business, among many others.
2. Comparing their test results to many owner's real world, instrumented, test results, the magazines tested what appear to be "ringers" (modified with special chassis, battery/powertrain, firmware/software, etc.) that were NOT representative of what was actually being sold to us, "Joe Consumer."
3. Worse, both magazines (and many other media sources) repeated the "misunderstanding" regarding 691 and 762 HP.
4. By nature of their responsibilities, pretty much everyone at Tesla HQ, to include the CEO and direct reports, all read, or should have read, said magazine reviews YET THEY DID NOTHING TO CORRECT OR AMEND THOSE PUBLISHED ERRORS re: 691/762 HP.
That's just another problem if Tesla lets this escalate into a class action--discovery is going to get friggin' ugly because looking under the rocks will expose a lot of email traffic which will very likely indicate they knew about the "691/762 problem" yet choose to do nothing about it for a very, very long time.
As a perhaps-too-large TSLA shareholder, and a P90DL owner, this is becoming a double "Ouch" moment.
Let us all hope the SpaceX launch goes well today and that Elon's focus shifts back to Tesla for few microseconds; this problem needed CEO-level attention more than a few months ago.
First Rule of Holes: When you're in one, STOP DIGGING.
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Tesla doesn't "advertise" but they have a relationship with the media which suggests "vetting" and more gravitas,
not "puffery." So when I read articles like this, I assumed them to be more accurate and have a modicum of journalistic truth, and then, like so many here, we paid six-figures for a P90DL
without ever having driven one. But it turns out there were mistakes/shortages of the truth,
yet Tesla did not mention that to the publishers for later correction. My "butt dyno" was right all along:
Based on the ~450 kWh (~603 HP) I'm getting in our P90DL (as discovered via the PowerTools app I purchased just for this reason), a judge is likely to find that it wasn't just an "oops" moment, it was fraud.
This is a very big problem and Tesla needs to make the problem go away by inducing us to trade in our P85DL and P90DL's at
well above market rates, encourage us us to buy new Teslas, and then, using their magic software tools, convert those trade-ins back into emasculated, NON-Ludircrous CPO's and Service Loaners. The Ludicrous underlines can be melted down and recycled. It's a win-win for Tesla: no more warranty risks for the 8-year/infinite-mile warranty, and their best customers are happy (but still mildly pissed off that they had to go through all this hassle in the first place).
They need to do this NOW because discovery, in addition to being an expensive and huge time sink, is going to have them looking unbelievably bad based on what else is found.
Read it and weep:
Tesla Loses Its Freaking Mind, Introduces 762-hp Model S, Ludicrous Mode, New Base Model
Key quote for P85D buyers:
If they decide to upgrade anyway, however, they’ll get 253 miles of range and a mind-bending total of 762 horsepower.
Big Problem: It was not true, and Tesla did nothing to correct.
2015 Tesla Model S P90D w/Ludicrous Upgrade First Test
Key quote for P90DL buyers:
The P90D starts life as an already-insane Model S P85D but with the P85D’s 221-hp front and 470-hp rear (691 hp combined) motors swapped for a front motor that makes 259 hp and 244 lb-ft of torque and a rear motor that produces 503 hp and 469 lb-ft of torque. Total output is 762 hp and 713 lb-ft of torque.
Big Problem: It was not true, and Tesla did nothing to correct.
And there are probably going to be more "Big Problems" found in discovery.
Elon: Do NOT go there. We love you and you are doing great things, to include saving the entire planet for future generations. We are trying to help, BUT this was a major screw up. The entire episode is creating a completely avoidable black mark on Tesla's reputation and pissing off your best customers. Make us whole by taking our cars in trade, putting us in new ones, and then move this chapter into the rear view mirror. Stat.