2020
Automatic
Tax: n/a
Mileage: 3,281
Electric
Tax: £0
Mileage: 58,730
2019
Mileage: 100,230
Mileage: 51,270
Mileage: 33,654
2017
Mileage: 35,797
2016
Mileage: 61,019
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Would it be too much to call Tesla's Model S a 'game changer'? We don't think so. Back in 2012, this car launched what is now the world's best known automotive EV brand on an unsuspecting world. It shocked the established brands into getting on with the electric era. And it was a luxury executive EV benchmark that others aspired to for nearly a decade, originally engineered with a goal of creating the best car in the world. You'd think though, that after well over ten years on sale, it'd be time for a completely new design to face a flood of fresh rivals. Instead, what we got in 2023 was this heavily revised version of the original. Will that be enough for Tesla in this segment? That's what we're here to find out. This wasn't the first Model S update - the earlier one happened in 2016 when the car lost the original version's fake grille. But it's by far the most significant change to this Tesla yet - as you'd hope, after a decade on sale and with several hundred thousand examples pounding global roads: not that you'd know that from the remarkably subtle exterior differences between this current-era car and the original. But look a little closer. There's a completely redesigned cabin; the body structure's different, the suspension's been re-engineered and the complicated confusing range of single motor versions have long been dropped, with the Dual Motor variants that remain now using a larger and completely different 100kWh battery pack.
Some cars are important. Others are significant. But only a very few are game-changing. Tesla's Model S is one of those - for so many reasons. Despite all of this, this much-improved version of this design will struggle for significance in our market because of the left hand drive-only format disappointingly adopted for this extensively revised design. If it wasn't for that, you might be prepared to overlook the issues that Tesla still has to address with this car; the lack of steering feel, the absence of a combined friction and regen braking system, the need for greater driver control over energy harvesting and a lack of the kind of overtly opulent cabin luxury you might expect at this price point. After all, there's also so much to like; the frantic power of this Plaid version, the enormous boot, the reasonable value pricing and the convenience of that industry-leading supercharger public charging network. Overall, what hasn't changed about a Model S is that it still rewards those in search of something a little different in a car like this. These are people who realise that they won't find inspiration in the places they've already been. They understand that to move forward, you have to do something different - you have to go somewhere new. That's what Tesla has done, while the rest of the motor industry watched and hedged its bets. In doing so, this American brand created a car that has done nothing less than re-write the rulebook.
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