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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 28 2015, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the vroom-vroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm dept.

A score of 103 out of 100 could be called kind of... Insane. This is exactly what the Tesla Model S P85D in 'Insane' mode received during testing by Consumer Reports (CR), a score so off-the-charts good that it actually broke the scale and forced CR to revise how they measure things. The official score with the new, updated methodology will be 100/100.

What made the Tesla break the ratings was the combination of supercar performance and extreme energy efficiency. These things haven't historically been found together, and so CR never had a car that go such high scores in both columns.

Impressive, but alas...traffic.


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  • (Score: 2) by Zinho on Friday August 28 2015, @08:44PM

    by Zinho (759) on Friday August 28 2015, @08:44PM (#229180)

    In 2013 the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a verbal reprimand to Tsla for overstating the testing results on their crash tests. [hybridcars.com] This article seems to be more of the same, since the official rating is still 100/100. Any word from Consumer Reports about how they feel about Elon spinning their rating numbers for his own publicity?

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 28 2015, @09:30PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday August 28 2015, @09:30PM (#229194) Journal

    Yes, imagine that. A guy who gets a perfect score on a widely-cited metric talks it up, after every other car company has used its scores on that test to market their vehicles for decades.

    Elon bad. Bad! Bad! How dare he use a publicly accepted metric to talk up his cars.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @09:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @09:54PM (#229208)

    For the kind of change they are asking for. I would expect it to be a *very* good car.

    This is not a 15k eco box. This is a high end luxury vehicle whose main bragging point is being 'green'

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mmcmonster on Friday August 28 2015, @11:32PM

      by mmcmonster (401) on Friday August 28 2015, @11:32PM (#229238)

      Being green is not the only bragging point.

      There's also the acceleration, the trunk space, the UI, the free software updates.

      That being said, it's really raised the bar on the $90k+ luxury vehicle market. It's also pulled a lot of people up into that market that would never have spent that much for a car before (myself included).