Official Tesla Model S Photos, Details Released

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• Any mention of the Model S now using the same seats as the Model X? I gather they are not an “option” so perhaps it isn’t immediately obvious.

  • Haven’t heard yet.

• The front looks a lot better to me with the Tesla logo on it, than without. LED lights are cool. Long lasting, energy efficient.

  • The front fascia has attracted a surprising amount of criticism. People want to see a grille in front. Even though the Tesla has no radiator or even brakes to cool, people want to see a grille. I would think that the critics are primarily people who have a great deal of trouble dealing with change.

    • I think people will get used to it quickly, but maybe that’s just because I did. Love the new design. Was expecting it would be announced with the Model 3 announcement, but happy they broke it out.

      • I was surprised at the awkward way it came out. Did they think putting up posters wouldn’t attract attention? Almost seems like it just slipped out…

        • yeah, weird… and no real announcement/event. strange

    • I really like the way they are breaking away from the old style. Including the M3’s clean dash. Make it all smooth and aerodynamic. As each release comes out hopefully they move further away from grilles and even get rid of those sea anchor side-view mirrors.

    • I’m fairly confident Tesla have done their surveys and homework on this. People now recognise that a Tesla is something special (super fast, smooth and quiet) – those that don’t soon will. This new front is a banner visible from 100m away announcing that the oncoming car (or the one approaching in the rear-view) is out and proud electric.

• So most importantly, what is the new drag coefficient?

  • Curious to find out…

  • I’m just wondering if I can buy that new front fascia 😀

    • haha. 😀 sell your 85 as a limited edition, unique car at a premium and then you can get one 😀

      • Have to pick my battles. Trying to figure out this CPO situation…that could be a huge factor if it turns on that the Model 3 announcement drove MS CPO sales which drove the price up.

      • The removal of the purse slot in favor of a spacewaster console means that the older cars are actually going to have collectors’ value and will claim a premium.

        I’m not planning to replace my car for years and years. When I do, the center console fad may *finally* have gone away. But if it hasn’t, I’ll be hunting for a 2012-early 2016 Model S with the “purse slot”.

        • Oh, so you’re not going to be excited by my upcoming review of the Center Console Insert? 🙁 I’m tired of having all my books/phone/apples/purses?/etc flapping around every time I boost/brake 😛

  • 0.17 i think

    • where do you get that?

• Will the new Model S make it around the Nürburgring under 10 minutes now?

  • Is that important really? Its not a dedicated sports car.

    • No more important than 0-60 times. Superlatives are always important.

      • How many cars a sold with a Nürburgring lap time column in their specs?
        Besides Jalopnik tested 10 min for a “bone stock Model S” and surmised 9 is possible without reduced power mode (and without traffic) So I don’t expect earth-shatteringly different results sans reduced power anyway.

        • I expect Tesla to take care of their over heating problem so their car does not fall flat on its face in 3 minutes. And I expect rational arguments instead of the standard sour grapes most Tesla fanatics use to avoid the issue. I say most because I’m a Tesla fanatic too. However I don’t hide my weaknesses.

          Here is a wonderful reply on the subject: https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/nurburgring

          Pungoteague_Dave | July 19, 2015

          I drove a Porsche 918 Spyder on the Nurburgring Nordschleife last month for a few laps. It was a top-ten life bucket list experience. I would not want to own that car. However, the point that people make when discussing the Tesla in the context of the Nurburgring is very valid – the FACT is that Elon Musk puts this car into supercar territory with his own words. He benchmarked it against the Mclaren that he formerly owned and wrecked. Tesla and Elon Musk tout this car and sell it against other cars in its price range and above.

          The Nurburgring is the race course that many auto manufacturers use to test and prove their cars. It is an amazing place, and it is perhaps the world’s best test of auto performance – it has strange off-camber turns, slow sections, long straights, right, lefts, elevation changes, and pretty much anything you can throw at a car. It is also private, so you can truly run a car at its limits – and it is available to the public and auto manufacturers. It is the ultimate automotive leveler – do well there and you have a fast car.

          ..Which brings us to the Tesla. Unlike any other current production car in the world, a Tesla cannot complete a single lap of the Nurburgring Nordschleife course at full power. After about three minutes at speed, it enters a crippled mode due to overheating. That happens in no other car, from a lowly VW, to a LaFerrari or Bugatti. Thats relevant anywhere, but especially in this sphere – atmosphere that is fairly rare and subject to fold comparing relative merits of one marque over another. I see the comments of those who say it isn’t relevant to THEM, that none of us drive every day like we are on a racecourse, so who cares? That’s okay, but the comparison is valid to many.

          Cars in this price range are supposed to be “competitive” with other cars of similar content, objective, and price. Whether or not we would individually test our cars this way is irrelevant – you pay this much to have a car that CAN measure up. At the Nurburgring, the MS cannot measure up – it can’t even do one lap at speed. Against a Hellcat at the drag strip, it can “win”. You may say that you don’t care, but it is one reason this car costs as much as it does. Although you may not care, Elon does – and is working on it.

        • What a pile of road apples. The Tesla was never designed or promoted as a race car. It’s also not a dump truck or airplane.

          It’s an electric luxury car with incredible acceleration.

        • I am sure this will be done. By the time the new Roadster is completed.

    • It’s very important to those who seek out anything they can find that can be used to run down stuff.

      It’s the “You failed to cross a t, your entire paper must be thrown out!” attack.

• I just went to look to the teslamotors website and I noticed, that there are only 7 ! pre-owned Model S available, if you click on any location, any color and any Model S. This can’t be right?

  • There’s a much larger listing somewhere. I failed to save the link. Perhaps someone else will furnish it for both of us.

    • Not sure why the difference, but think you mean the EV-CPO site, which still shows >250: http://ev-cpo.com/

      • That’s the site I was thinking about. But it doesn’t seem to be a Tesla owned site. Any idea what is going on?

        • Yeah, it automatically pulls from Tesla, but not a Tesla site.

          Not sure. Kyle is investigating.

  • Yeah, I noticed the same. not sure what’s going on, but Kyle’s writing about it.

• Nice group of updates.

  • Thanks!

• “high resolution photos” my ass.. those are renders, computer generated.

• Great flashback to the Tucker, headlights and all.

• So new front, new LED lights, any increase in range?

  • Not that we know of.

• Any articles with pics comparing the two front ends side-by-side? That’s what I’d like to see.

• What will be the effect of the new upgrade of Model to 48 amp on the charging time, it will reach 80% in 1 hour ?

• Thanks. Haven’t been keeping up on the TMC forum with all of these big trips/events and the forum getting knocked off of Feedly with the redesign. Have to try subscribing again.

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