Tesla Model S: Greatest car of the 2010s

[Zorro]

While we’re technically not through with the 2010s, we think it’s already safe to pick the greatest car to come out of this decade.

There have been huge leaps forward in automotive technology over the past few years. Cars are faster, more efficient, and quieter, while the rapid advances in active safety technology continue to bring us closer to cars that can actually drive themselves. For the most part, however, cars still work pretty much the same way they always have, powered by a piston engine that’s fueled by the black goop that we pump out of the ground. Only one car of the 2010s has lit a different path. Only one has shown the world not only the efficiency and environmental advantages of electric power, but it has also shown the performance advantages of electric power and wrapped it all up in a sleek, appealing, and expensive-but-attainable package.

In other words, only one has made the electric car cool, and that’s the Tesla Model S.

While there have been plenty of missed deadlines and controversy surrounding Tesla, the company’s Model S’s influence on the world of electric-car innovation is undeniable. The first all-new major American carmaker in years, Tesla started out building a neat but low-volume all-electric roadster based on the Lotus Elise. Less than 2500 were built, but the Tesla Roadster got the brand’s name out there, increased public awareness of high-performance electrics, and raised some cash.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/07/12/tesla-model-s-greatest-car-of-the-2010s

[Glamrock]

1. My Mini Cooper S disagrees....

She believes she is the greatest car of the 10's. And she also reminded me that she's never spontaneously burst into flame....

[Tikki]

2. Our oldest son just dropped by to share a ride in his brand new Tesla 3.

Beautiful and amazing ride and he is sending such a great message to his children.


Tikki

[hunter]

3. I have yet to own a 21st century car.

So far as I've experienced renting and driving other people's modern cars I find them highly irritating.

My ideal car doesn't have anything electrical in the doors, opens and starts with a $2 key, and doesn't have any electronic smarts beyond what it takes to keep the motor turning.

If someone gave me a Tesla I'd give it away like a hot potato to someone who cared.

In my utopia nobody wants or needs a car. It pisses me off that I have to own a car in this society. Therefore I drive a mid 'eighties $800 piece of shit with a salvage title and 300,000+ miles on it, but only when I have to. The average age of the gasoline molecules in its tank is three months.

When my wife and I met we were Los Angeles commuters on 15 mph stop-and-go traffic freeways. My bicycle was faster on any day I decided to risk my life and show up for work stinking of fear sweat. Even my very best bicycle route to work, through the park and illegally on a few sidewalks, was not in any way bicycle friendly.

By some planning and greater good fortune my wife and I managed to escape car commuter hell. Our adult children, nephews and nieces, never knew us as car commuters. It's always a joy to see them navigating the big cities of this world unburdened by automobiles.