Perhaps my 'desired performance numbers' are a bit more aggressive than yours?
It does make some sense if you look at it from the whole, "doing more with less" angle. That is if the Mod3, using a smaller battery pack, is faster and goes farther than the Bolt.
If by 'more refined' you mean softened, and quilted, and laced, and embroidered, and pillowed...? No. That ain't gonna happen. The design team has been firm on this. They will NOT be moving to a 'more traditional' interior design scheme -- EVER.
Not that it will look like other cars, but more fit and finish, better materials. They've already dropped piano black from the Model S and added more wood options. I've read many, MANY comments from people who love their Model S, but wish the interior was up to par with similarly priced ICE cars.
It will be the quickest for me for sure. The best my Honda Fit can do is supposedly 8.3 seconds, but I guess they had no passengers, no AC, and very little gas in the tank, because I sure don't go that quickly.
...and DEFINITELY compared to my first car, a 1985 Reliant K, that I used to joke could go 0-60.... eventually
I have read a few hundred comments of that sort over the past couple of years. And though those guys say these things about 'materials', and how they 'feel'...? When pressed, they always come back to the way the interior of the Model S LOOKS instead. They have spent so much time walking up to expensive 'luxury' cars and seeing the same things over and over and over again, that they have come to expect it, and associate it with a certain price point by default. I learned just over thirty years ago that most 'luxury' manufacturers were just doing their own version of a Rolls-Royce interior, and failing. It astounds me that all these years later, they are still reaching for the same goal and continually falling short. This is why I am not impressed by traditional themes of 'luxury' at all -- they look backward, to the past, to a period where horsedrawn carriages and stagecoaches were the epitome of 'luxury' -- and still attempt to replicate it out of pure habit. I'd rather look toward... 'The FUTURE!'
