Recent content by Apprunner

Not surprised at the result. The old M3P isn't a slouch to 60 but that 30% increase beyond that would mitigate the biggest weakness of the current model. Can't wait until 1/4th times come out...here's hoping it gets below 11s :D

Way more often than not, it will be blamed on the car that does the rear ending. Their fault for not keeping distance. It is what it is...

Yeah and none of this 0-60 weak sauce. We need a good romp to 130mph to get a 1/4th time! 😁

Agree but the M3P will more likely will be the stoplight champion. Its going to easily outsell the 5N as its also much cheaper (which may be a great selling point for the 5N). I bet if there was no EV6 GT or 5N, Tesla may not have offered a more powerful M3P. I'm happy that there is...

SoC doesn't impact 0-60 near as much as the quarter mile. All of these anecdotes driving the car are nice to read but really can't put weight on them until we get some instrumented tests. At this point, I'm just hoping they improved the 60-120mph a bit more given the battery limitations. Also...

Agree. The 19s would definitely be my preference

There is about a 0.2s difference to 60 in the US spec M3P between 90% and 30% It’s been tested before by Bjorn. Look at the results at the 7:50 mark. After that, the power falls off more noticeably with lower SoC.

It’s probably battery output limited at the low SoCs. Maybe not much faster than current model below 50% SoC? Won’t make much of a performance difference to me if that’s the case.

I'm upgrading after a year. Let them get the bugs out first. Agree that the new car is very nice outside of the increased power. The improved suspension, insulation, build quality and ventilated seats are alone worth the upgrade for me. The power increase and static price are just icing on the cake.

Sounds like even the gimpy battery feels fast. 😁

Nope. He had to take a side trip to the track and get a time slip to get a reliable measurement of speed. None of this draggy nonsense.

Those are NOT DRAGGYS! They are digital timeslips supplied by the drag strip! Not every drag strip uses actual paper these days! I just posted a slip and you keep asking for slips...why is this so hard to understand? Not going to argue any further but most people with a long-range Model S...

What are you talking about? The Youtube video poster clearly showed every digital timeslip he ran. Example below. He's clearly running 10.85 at 128mph. He has multiple timeslips he shows throughout the video and its similar times. Drag Times clearly runs the same times as this guy. You are...

Please. A simple search on Youtube yields multiple instances of it trapping around 129mph in the 10.8 range. It will runaway from the M3P because it simply has a more capable battery.

Model S isn't as nimble or fun for sure. I really like how relatively light the M3P feels. If I were to go Model S...I'd have to splurge for the Plaid as that at least has a unique parlor trick of going to warp speed. Also, the Model S doesn't have much more passenger space than a Model 3...