Smithery
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If your #1 priority for a new vehicle is mind bending acceleration, there's places to look besides pickup trucks ?Mind-bending acceleration is probably the most important feature to me. I think the lighter weight of the Large pack should help with that.
That said... I'm not remotely sure what vehicles you're used to or what you've driven before, but there's 2 points here to dig deeper:
1 - Have you ever driven a vehicle with a sub-4s 0-60?
10 years ago, sub-4s 0-60 was supercar territory. Now midrange performance EVs hit it routinely.
Your specific experiences with acceleration might make the following NOT apply to you... But it is extremely likely in the population overall that you've never driven anything with a sub-4s 0-60, and even likely you've never experienced that even as a passenger.
If you're in that large group of the population I defined above, the odds of you being able to tell 3.0s 0-60 apart from 3.2s are extremely low.
2 - Have you ever driven a midrange performance EV or faster EV?
The instant torque from 0rpm is insane.
While only Teslas, Porsches, and a scant few others go sub 4.0s 0-60, MANY MANY MANY of them have supercar 0-30 and 0-40 times.
You can hop in a used 5 year old Mercedes B-class and plant your foot to the gas, and the way that glorified minivan will punch you into the back of your seat is unreal.
My (non-performance) Model X 100D is absolutely frightening when I plant my foot to the floor from a stop, even though it doesn't get to 60 until 4.4s have passed.
If you want to "feel acceleration" in most normal driving situations and not on the drag strip... then you would be perfectly happy with the max pack and probably not be able to tell the difference between large and max.
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