Review: Tesla's new Model S P85D—double your engines, double your fun - Ars Technica (blog)
In its December 1997 issue , Road & Track published the first US road test of the otherworldly McLaren F1. The issue became one of the most famous in R&T’s history due to the 12+ page review of a car with which the stateside automotive press... I remember reading with wide eyes about how the F1’s 627bhp BMW-built V-12 could rocket the car from 60 miles per hour to 160 miles per hour in the time it took to pour a glass of water. "Surely," I thought as I read and re-read the review with the fervor that only a teenage boy could have for the hottest of hot cars, "I’ll go my whole life and never get the chance to drive anything even remotely that fast. The F1 is a limited-run, hand-built marvel that cost a million dollars new and featured an engine compartment lined with gold foil to deal with the exhaust heat from that earthshaking BMW V12. It’s the kind of car teenagers buy posters of. In... It won't top 200 miles per hour. Your teenager probably won't buy a Tesla poster. But the Tesla does have the power to beat the McLaren F1 off the line, run dead even with it to 60 miles per hour in 3. 2 seconds, and hit the quarter-mile mark only a few tenths off of the McLaren’s 11. 1 seconds. Source: arstechnica.com
