People Love Teslas–For Several Different Reasons
When American car-buyers were given 12 different criteria for making their purchase, “performance/speed” ranked a healthy fourth (behind price, fuel economy, and style).
Perhaps this figure may be tailing off slightly as baby boomers age and tend not to care about this a bit less, but it’s still quite important, as evidenced by the enduring appeal and robust sales figures for the classic American muscle cars like the Chevy Camaro and the Ford Mustang, as well as by the strength of the market for the many foreign entrants: Porsche, etc.
This, of course, is good news for Tesla, whose Model S P100D provides 588 horsepower at the wheels and 920 lb-ft of torque. Here’s a cool video of the speedster nosing out a ($530,000) Lamborghini.
Many people look at the price tag of the Tesla and brush it off as impossibly expensive, overlooking the fact that its performance rivals (if not exceeds) sports cars costing literally five times more.
Craig,
You’re quite right, Tesla is not really expensive. In fact, considering it’s abilities, and contribution to the environment it’s very affordable.
However, before you get too excited, the Lamborghini could in theory travel at absurdly high speed all day, whereas the Tesla’s range is severely affected when traveling at high speed.
The good news is Mustang and Porsche are both releasing hybrid models. When the first Mustang RHD hybrid is available in Australia in early 2020, I will give my BMW i8 to my daughter and buy one !
In the UK I’m a Tesla owner, and shareholder. We have replaced 3 of our London corporate courtesy BMW 7series with Tesla’s and never regretted the decision.
I’ve owned my Liberty Electric Range Rover for 6 years, without a single hitch or reliability issue.
EV’s are great ! (But Aston-Martin, Lamborghini, etc are works of automotive art).
I don’t know much about cars. Because I have no car. hhha. Bur I think this is a good post. And I agree with you.
June
It’s nice to hear from you, and thank you.
Tesla is really cool.I think a lot of people love it