Now, if changes to the exterior are barely worth mentioning, the inside is nothing but change. The old car’s cabin is entirely gone, with a new horizontal screen, digital display and peculiar sci-fi steering wheel. As you can see, calling it a wheel at all might be a little generous. Bold a design as it is, it’s nothing new from Tesla. A similar ‘wheel’ was previewed in the above second-generation Roadster prototype. As you might be able to see, the new screen should be a boon for gamers. It allegedly packs enough computing power to run The Witcher III and Cyberpunk 2077.
These new hypercar beaters aren’t cheap, though the blow ought to be softened by news of the aforementioned BMW M5 CS. While that car, with its 635PS (467kW) and 3.0-second 0-62mph time will set you back £140,780, the Model S Plaid+ starts from £130,980. The Plaid meanwhile is £110,980 and the Long Range starts from £83,980. Does that make these new mega-Teslas actually quite good value? Possibly. We’d quite like to see where the arches of the prototypes have gone, though…
It’s also worth noting that the Model X has undergone similar updates to the Model S, albeit omitting the option of the full-fat Plaid+ specification. Plaid gives the big crossover a 0-62mph time of under 3 seconds and a top speed of 163mph. It’ll go 340 miles, and set you back the same as the Model S Plaid – £110,980.