I must admit I don't understand why so many people want a faster, smaller car, and go on about 'handling' when 99% of people will never go near a track or get close the performance envelope of a 60 single motor Model S
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Frankly the speed at which even our 'slow' 75D X can carry into corners on a B road is just mad for use on public roads, and the one time I tried to even use 75% the performance of a P85D S on a B road I nearly ended up in a hedge.
Let's get real here, the performance of the slowest Tesla on sale today is the equivalent of 'Super cars' from the 1980s. The grip level offered by morden tyres and suspension means if you have actually experience understeer in any Tesla you really are going too fast on a public road.
Don't even get me started on the TC system on these cars, any road condition, any chamber, any temperature you can floor the throttle and the most 'drama' you will get is some flashing yellow lights followed by been catapulted into the distance with zero realisation of how little grip or actual driving skill you have! Anyone who's owned and driven a RWD combustion car will know what am talking about, does that bush look 'softer' than the other one was often my thought process when even thinking about going WOT in my old 400bhp BMW in anything but perfectly smooth tarmac, in the dry and having the steering wheel dead centre.
I use to love speed, but EVs have numbed it to a point where any 'excitement' from going fast on public roads I have to seek on my pedal bikes. These things are all simply TOO GOOD. You no longer need any skill to deploy 300,400,500 bhp in any road conditions, by the time you actually start to loss grip you are traveling at crazy speeds that really should see your licence been taken away. Its madness I tell you
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So my views of speed have been competly redefined by EVs. These days I much prefer comfort and space in a car, it could be am just getting old....but Strava tells me I hit 41mph on my pedal bike this week whilst hitting a peak HR of nearly 190bpm all during my commute to work, so my 'need' for speed is still there, its just all achieved at a much more sensible levels of speed. Though a crash at 40mph on a pedal bike would be substantially more painful than any crash I've in a car of any kind
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