Tesla P85D First Test

[Bob]

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alt ... irst_test/

0-60 in 3.1 and the quarter mile in 11.6 @ 115. Not too shabby; although the trap is not exactly what you would hope for from something with a mid-11 ET.

[kevm14]

All the people I know still cite 0-60 time so that 3.1s will get a lot of publicity. 115 trap is no slouch (it's C5 Z06 fast, which is quite fast) but still isn't what you'd expect from a mid-11 or 3.1s 0-60. But you'd have to be pretty jaded to be like "people are going to think this is in the 99th percentile of car performance when it's really in the 97th."

[Bob]

Another article going deeper into the acceleration of the P85D:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/109 ... ance-sedan

Does 0-24 in 0.83 seconds qualify as snap?

[kevm14]

It's a little bit ironic that to get the performance characteristics that I like, I have to go to an electric car.