tesla2mme
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- Tony
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2022
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- Location
- California (Bay)
- Vehicles
- MME GT in the best color ever made (cyber orange!)
- Occupation
- Engineer
it isn't about needing to or even about doing it. It's about knowing you can. And other people knowing you can.Who cares? It's a crossover family SUV with a sh1t-ton of style and performance. Really, on a day-to-day basis, do you need to launch to 116mph with the kids in the back seat? The most that I see ever needing is 2-3 seconds needed to get in front of that semi barreling down on me as I merge onto the highway.
If someone sees a Tesla P100D (or Plaid) they know it was expensive, and they know it's god-awful fast. It's a status thing, same reason a Veyron or Koenigsegg cost what they cost, and why they have ever-larger Hp/TQ numbers. It is pitiful for a car that costs nearly $80,000 in MY market (with ADM abound) to have some bizarre, seemingly arbitrary power cut off that neuters it after a relatively short period of time. The Select, Premium, and RT1 models can have that "feature" but the GT, and GTPE, should absolutely not be stuck with that. And it isn't because anyone "needs" a full 10 seconds of go juice... but they should have access to it, like they do in a P100D Tesla.
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