New Tesla earns perfect score from Consumer Reports
The Tesla P85D cornering hard on Consumer Reports test track in Connecticut.
(excerpts and photo from CNN)
Tesla's new Model S P85D is so good it broke Consumer Reports' scoring system.
Consumer Reports rates vehicles on a zero-to-100 scale, but Tesla's high-performance, all-wheel-drive car scored 103.
"Consumer Reports had to make changes to its scoring methodology to account for the car's exceptionally strong performance," the magazine said in a statement.
To bring the score back in line, the P85D was given less credit for areas in which the Model S already beat other cars but, in this version, simply exceeded on those measures even more.
For instance, it was given less credit for improving its acceleration and efficiency which, in other versions of the Model S, already outperformed other cars.
Once those changes were made, the P85D earned the top score of 100, making it the first car ever to earn that score.
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At a total price of $127,820, the Model S P85D wasn't just the highest-scoring car Consumer Reports has ever tested. It was also the most expensive, said Jake Fisher, head of auto testing for Consumer Reports.
full article at http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/27/autos/consumer-reports-tesla-p85d/index.html
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Remember many years ago when the Gymnastics Federation changed it scoring system due to Nadia Comaneci's "perfect 10" ?
The Tesla P85D cornering hard on Consumer Reports test track in Connecticut.
(excerpts and photo from CNN)
Tesla's new Model S P85D is so good it broke Consumer Reports' scoring system.
Consumer Reports rates vehicles on a zero-to-100 scale, but Tesla's high-performance, all-wheel-drive car scored 103.
"Consumer Reports had to make changes to its scoring methodology to account for the car's exceptionally strong performance," the magazine said in a statement.
To bring the score back in line, the P85D was given less credit for areas in which the Model S already beat other cars but, in this version, simply exceeded on those measures even more.
For instance, it was given less credit for improving its acceleration and efficiency which, in other versions of the Model S, already outperformed other cars.
Once those changes were made, the P85D earned the top score of 100, making it the first car ever to earn that score.
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At a total price of $127,820, the Model S P85D wasn't just the highest-scoring car Consumer Reports has ever tested. It was also the most expensive, said Jake Fisher, head of auto testing for Consumer Reports.
full article at http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/27/autos/consumer-reports-tesla-p85d/index.html
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Remember many years ago when the Gymnastics Federation changed it scoring system due to Nadia Comaneci's "perfect 10" ?
