Thanks for the 15 minutes of
Thanks for the 15 minutes of entertainment all. I love the debates over what's faster on paper. I used to own a Trans Am, sure it's not the quickest car, but I won many races. Raced nitro Honda Civics and STI's that were in the 9's quarter miles. I'm not sure why people like me love v8's, maybe it's the growl instead of baby crying scream of a 4cyl at VVT rpm's. We've been losing drag races to rice burners for decades. Sure my slow Trans Am couldn't beat a Civic off the line, or beat an STI on the backroads, but it left them all behind on the highway. I was looking forward to buying a supercharged Camaro ZL1, and bought the Tesla p85 instead. All around quiet, consistently faster, no guilt for stomping the pedal everywhere. Oh and the convenience of charging at home for 1/3rd the cost is under rated by gas owners. For those skeptical, Tesla RWD bests my AWD suv in mud, snow and ice traction, RWD ICE sports cars can't compete. I'm interested in EV's, saving the planet when convenient sure, but would never have bought a Prius, Leaf or Volt over a Camaro ZL1 or Hellcat. The Tesla is a fast daily driver, beats most everything, the stingray, ZL1 and Hellcat are nice weekend cars. Even the BMW i8 and Audi 8's, are weekend cars with a limited milage lifespan and no real practicality. There's a practical reason why you can see Tesla's at a Home Depot parking lot, or stuffing 15 bags of thanksgiving groceries in them, but none of the other sports cars. The whole deal with replacing batteries in 10 years is a pointless argument. In 15,000 miles I've lost 1 mile of range, whop-de-do, my Acura lost more than that in MPG drop. Nissan just built terrible batteries, Tesla knows good batteries and even has a program to buy back your used battery for solar storage in the future. Even so, the first Honda and Prius battery replacements end up with a better capacity and cheaper prices going from NiCD, NiMH to LiPo. Sure if you live and die by the drag strip, hellcat makes financial sense for those guys. Actually no, it doesn't make sense, I'd rather by a STI and nitrous the crap out of it for half the price of a Hellcat. For someone who want's just 1 car to be both the daily driver, and sports car, Tesla has them beat. If you want all the bells and whistles, vibration seats, kiddie back up alarm, dvd entertainment, trashcan detector and 10 cup holders mean more to you, just give in and buy a minivan.