Stories of the all-electric Tesla Model S P85D’s spine-jarring acceleration are definitely not exaggerated. While viral videos showing the glee and/or terror of passengers being rocketed from a standstill to 60mph in 3.1 seconds by the new all-wheel-drive, dual-motor variant of Tesla’s flagship sedan adequately convey the rush you get from stomping on P85D’s accelerator, I’ll leave it to the raw, unbridled honesty of a child to sum it up best. Whenever my four-year-old daughter, safely and very securely strapped into her car seat in the back, gave me her permission to “go fast,” her response every single time was, “Whee!” accompanied by a look of pure delight that melted my heart. If I could afford to write Tesla a $125k check to cover the fully loaded P85D they’d loaned me, they’d have never gotten the car back.
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