Model S

Make
Tesla
Segment
Sedan

Tesla announced a lot of stuff today, but there's really only one thing you should care about. Okay, make that two. First off, the top-line Model S P90D, which nudges the P85D from the top spot, is absolutely nuts. The P85D was the ultimate sleeper: An electric four-door with 691 horsepower, it regularly smoked supercars through the quarter-mile. Now the new P90D should be able to beat almost anything on the strip as it packs a crazy 762 horsepower. It also has a 0 to 60 time of just 2.8 seconds, although top speed is still limited to 155 mph.

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"Ludicrous Mode" now trumps "Insane Mode" in both silliness and speed. It's available on the P90D for $10,000 and existing P85D owners can upgrade for $5,000 (plus service fees). It costs so damn much because it's a hardware upgrade, not software update, which means you need to bring the car in for servicing. (Good news 1.5 is that the Model X crossover will have Ludicrous Mode, although it will only do 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds.) The second bit of good news is that the iconic Tesla Roadster is coming back! It'll hit four years from now and will feature a speed setting even crazier than Ludicrous. All Elon Musk will say is that it's called "Maximum Plaid."

The top-tier Model S was already incredible, but this puts it in rarefied air. If you can have a supercar's performance and the space of a sedan all for half the price of said supercar why wouldn't you go for it? Yeah, range anxiety sucks but the Model S can now go up to 300 miles with its new optional 90-kilowatt hours battery pack (good news 2.5). If you had the coin would you buy a Model S P90D or is there still something you don't like about Musk's electric super sedan?

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