Video Summary
Here is the summary of the YouTube video:- The car is a Tesla Model S Plaid Track Package.
- The track package includes more speed, grip, and stopping power.
- The Model S Plaid has upgraded motors: two on the rear axle and one up front, making 1,020 horsepower and 1,428 Newton meters.
- The rotors are wrapped in carbon, allowing them to spin at a far higher RPM for better top speed, reaching 200 mph.
- The vehicle has carbon ceramic brakes and semi-slick tires for better stopping and grip and has lightweight alloy wheels.
- Software tricks can assist in getting the most performance.
- The car costs £16,000 more than the standard model.
- In a straight line, the Tesla Model S Plaid Track Package is ballistic.
- The car has aquaplaning, but the brakes work to bring it to a stop.
- A concern with the Tesla Model S Plaid Track Package is that the fans must run constantly in order to use Track mode.
- The car tested had huge panel gaps in some areas, which the reviewer highlights.
- The steering has capacitive buttons. They control many functions usually on stalks.
- To change between park, drive, and neutral, the driver must slide an icon up and down on the screen.
- The reviewer believes the seats do not provide adequate shoulder support.
- Despite having some quirks, the track package drives well, and is better than expected compared to other vehicles being tested.
- From a standing start, the Model S Plaid goes 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds, with a quarter-mile time of 9.6 seconds.
- This Model S Plaid is best described as a chilled-out 1,000-horsepower car.
- In its drive mode, the vehicle has all the power sent to the front to make it a 340-horsepower front-wheel-drive hot hatch.
- By sending 680 horsepower to the back, this vehicle becomes an M3 with batteries.
- With the all-wheel-drive system, the reviewer states that the car can pull the power to the front and is driver-controlled.
- Despite the vehicle's weight, the reviewer found that the balance of this car makes it one of the best and most fun performance electric cars you can buy.
