This 2015 Tesla Model S P85D is a spectacular example. Having travelled only a scant 3170 miles from new, it presents beautifully. The car has been kept in a climate controlled garage since new and has been properly looked after and maintained.
The exterior paint is in exceptional condition and free of defects. The interior remains fresh looking with almost no signs of wear. The performance is blindingly fast while maintaining excellent handling and traction from its all wheel drive.
In addition to all of the array of standard features of the P85D, the car is equipped with the following optional and noteworthy items:
85 kWh Battery
Pearl White Paint
All Glass Panoramic Roof
Tan Leather Seats
Dual Drive Motor
Performance Dual Motor
Extended Nappa Leather Trim
Premium Interior Lighting
Alcantara Headliner
19″ Cyclone Wheels
19″ Michelin Primacy Tire Upgrade
Obeche Wood Gloss Decor Accents
Tech Package with Autopilot
Premium Interior Package
Parcel Shelf
Supercharging
Red Brake Calipers
Sub Zero Weather Package
It recently went in for service and received fresh cabin filters, new key fob batteries, an adjustment to the hatch latch and a systems check.
TechCrunch published the following article on the P85D and truly captures the operation of this vehicle. Here are some highlights of the article:
691 horsepower. 0-60 in 3.2 seconds.
Those numbers might sound fairly crazy — and they are. They come together to make the P85D one of the fastest accelerating four door cars in production.
But they’re just numbers. For most people, numbers like that just translate to “more horsepower than my current car” and “takes off really fast at a stop light”.
And those are perfectly fine, accurate ways to think of the P85D — but they’re not quite the complete picture.
Yes, the P85D is fast. Ridiculously fast. Put-your-head-against-the-headrest-or-your-neck-will-hurt-all-day fast.
But it’s also smooth, comfortable, spacious, and freakishly quiet.
Slide the car into its oh-so-appropriately named “Insane” mode.
Stomp the accelerator. There is no engine roar (nor, for that matter, an engine.) There is no guttural growl of pistons firing and gasoline exploding. Instead, a winding whir — like something ripped straight out of Star Wars — and you’re gone. Your head is pinned to the seat, your heart is in your throat, and you’re flying.
Or don’t.
Lightly ease into the accelerator, instead. Pick up the kids from soccer practice, take’m out for ice cream, and be careful to respect every last speed limit sign.
The P85D doesn’t care. It never feels like you’re driving the car the wrong way— and for a car this insanely fast and powerful, that’s actually quite impressive. It’s a supercar that happens to be a very, very good every day car. Or an every day car that happens to be a very, very good supercar.
It’s almost surreal, really — with so much power and torque at a whim, the P85D starts to feel like it’s wired into you. It’s a wonderful driving experience, and one that everyone should experience for themselves at some point.
The P85D is a blast to drive. But the driver’s seat is just one of five; how is it as a passenger?
The passenger seats, both front and rear, are comfortable and incredibly spacious. The P85D is a surprisingly large car (if you’ve never seen a Model S in person, it’s probably bigger than you think) with its electric components requiring a relatively hefty footprint — but that translates into a helluva lot of leg room inside the cabin.
An impossible-to-miss signature feature of the Model S line, the P85D packs a massive 17″ display into its center console.
It’s big, it’s beautiful, but it’s not quite perfect.
Here’s what it can do:
- Music: XM, AM/FM, and a few 3G-enabled Internet radio services (Slacker, TuneIn) are built in. My favorite trick: using the voice recognition, you can say “Play [pretty much any song in the world here]” and it’ll grab that song off the Internet (by way of Slacker) and play it. Asking it to play the song again will result in a similar song playing instead (presumably due to rights limitations on Slacker’s end), but it’s an awesome way to get rid of that song that’s stuck in your head
- Turn-by-turn Navigation: It has a very solid and intuitive turn-by-turn navigation mapping interface. It’ll remember your favorite locations, and navigate you to the nearest supercharger. I noticed that its arrival time estimates were pretty inconsistent, though — even when the map indicated that it was aware of traffic, its ETA ended up being quite wrong on multiple occasions.
- Browser: It’s got a built-in, 3G powered browser. It’s probably not going to replace the browser on your phone or tablet even when you’re just sitting in the parked car, but it’s handy in a pinch.
- Camera: You can access the back-up camera at any time, whether or not you’re actually backing up. That’s something I’ve always wanted in a car — but it’s actually not super useful (and perhaps a bit distracting) in the real world. When used for actually backing up, though, the camera is outstanding. The picture is very clear, and the reverse lines adjust based on the angle of your steering wheel to project your reverse path.
- Phone: Once connected to your phone over Bluetooth, it can access your phonebook and initiate calls here, piping them through the built-in microphone/loud speaker. The interface was intuitive, the audio quality was quite good, and everyone on the other end of the calls reported that I sounded quite clear.
- Adjust the car’s height/performance. You can lift or lower the car as desired based on where you’re driving. In a city with lots of speed bumps? Lift it up. Out in the backroads? Drop it low for a sleeker look. This is a fun one to show off to people — it consistently blows minds.
- The P85D will get an estimated 253 miles on a full charge. That’ll vary quite a bit depending on how you drive it, of course. In my test, which probably pushed the car a bit harder than one normally would after the initial “holy shit this car is fast lets blast off over and over and over again” period wears off, I got closer to 190 miles on a charge.The car is pretty good at adjusting its range estimates based on your driving patterns, though, and an upcoming software update that factors in things like hills and wind speed should only improve it.
