I can buy houses for that money here where I live in Italy. So it’s still an insanely expensive car.
Even on the autostrada I would say it's typical t go 130km/h (80 mph) so I'm not sure of the context where 200mph is required.
Also, and every racing series shows that, one fast lap doesn't guarantee good results in a race.
But I get the thrill of launching a car at insane speed. I just don’t personally see the point and would never spend those money for a car.
I’d much rather buy a few hectares of forest with those money.
To get supercar performance in a normal car is pretty nice and unheard of until Tesla came along. Yes it is still expensive, but less so than other cars with worse performance. You had to get the 911 or similar with all the addons for like 300k to get worse performance and not even close to the same comfort levels.
We can talk about top speed but the acceleration is good for safety. Better to overtake a truck in 3 rather than 10 seconds.
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not necessarily talking about Plaid levels of acceleration. But just going from a Suburu Crosstrek (One of my cars) to a Tesla in "chill" mode (which I usually keep my Tesla in for tire longevity and not making my wife car sick) feels so much safer.
acceleration makes you a badass race car driver. those slowpokes are just in the way, but that doesn’t have to slow you down.
vroom vroom.
Because of idiot owners.
For all of human history, we have chased speed. Finding the fastest at running, finding the quickest horse, designing the fastest trains, buying the fastest cars.
We do it because it's a lot of fun.
[edit: better vid coz the other is all talk] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1r4ZotaY6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NP7HWwxPbU
"Tesla Model S Shatters Nurburgring Record, Beats Porsche Taycan Turbo S"
The gist is that he originally thought his concerns about the plaid couldn't be addressed easily, but it turns out that they were all addressed through Tesla's (off-the-shelf) track package. Part of what surprised him is that his suspension concerns were alleviated solely through a software update.
I don't mean to move the goalposts, just pointing out it mostly hits that time by having an insane power to weight ratio and adequate brakes. or in other words, going really fast in a straight line.
Where the ICE is still cruising along, and the Tesla is in thermal shutdown...
Also, the Model S may be top 50...but the 50 ahead of it is basically every supercar made in the last 20 years and all of them have less HP to go faster.
That's a bit misleading considering there are very few 4d cars on that list. 'not very hard' but ~almost no one else is doing it. For consideration; on a 7+ minute lap it's within .1s of an Enzo Ferarri.(!!!!!). That's Impressive, even if the Enzo is a few years on now.