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Tesla Model S

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    #2672
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,800 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Have you driven an E60 M5 recently? After you owned the 90D? I'd say you will be unpleasantly surprised if you did. I drove one many years ago, before I'd ever driven an EV. It was fast when picked up a bit, but the 90D would be much quicker away from the lights. And effortless. The M5 (in my case E63 M6) V10 racing engine sounded glorious and revved to 8.5k rpm. But the robotised manual transmisson was pretty brutal and would now feel very ancient

    I suppose it is rose tinted glasses that we have. And not about EVs!



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    #2673
    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,380 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121940530#Comment_121940530

    No, but I did drive two cars that I had owned previously that I thought were rocketships, an e60 535d and a z32 300zx. They both still had the charm and the engine notes etc but they had lost the rocketship feeling - and that was only vs a standard non performance model S.

    I think an e60/1 has reached the stage where it's no longer expected to be the fastest out there but it's about the theatre. That v10 in a regular family car (as regular as a bmw m car can be anyway) is simply phenomenal and will never happen again. That, the phaeton w12, and the Q7 v12 TDI are on my bucket list of one off engine car combination wants.

    The e60 is like the w210 v6 I bought last month. It's not the best at anything anymore but the theatre of driving it reminds me of a better era.

    If they did finance on the new S and X here I'd already be in one. It was a flat no, even with 30-40% down on my side. The S, no matter what variant, is the daddy of them all really in the EV world and it's very difficult to make a case against one. Even now. Why would you spend 40k on an ID or a model 3 when you could have a 3-4 year old model S raven for the same money?



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    #2674
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,800 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Same old, same old. Back pretty much exactly 20 years ago, everybody told me I was crazy buying a 7 year old BMW 735i V8 while for the same money I could have got a 3 year old Toyota Corolla 😂



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    #2675
    Ranleth
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Ranleth


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121517428#Comment_121517428

    Sorry, not sure how I missed your question.

    Yes, I purchased. Delighted so far. Lovely to drive and loads of power if needed. I was never a fan of purchasing a new car so happy get something slightly older that has done the majority of its devaluing (hopefully)



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