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Driving manual/stick is considered "manly" and a lot of sports car enthusiasts would never drive an automatic. So I presume this multilevel "torque language" bullshit is basically a way to retrofit stick shift into an EV that has no mechanical need for it.
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Yes, this must be it. There's no experience like driving a manual with a two-plus ton vehicle.
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Agreed, I'm driving a ~2000kg truck atm with a stick shift from the 90s and a V8 in a hilly city and it's so much more fun than the arbitrary compact cars I've been borrowing for years. Super mega scary on gas, but fun nonetheless as on occasional leisure thing.
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If you enjoy that, get a Deuce and a Half - not much worse on gas (lol) but the shift pattern is something else entirely.
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I've never heard of this, but it looks incredible. I've seen some similar looking beasts around that seem to be modified for apocalypse survival and would love to try and drive it, as long as I don't have to reverse it up a slope lol
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I will say, Teslas usually have too much torque because I feel very nauseous in them as a passenger. Having more fine grained control over the torque profile might be nice
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The reason you feel nauseous as a passenger has nothing to do with the maximum torque output of the vehicle, but because one-pedal driving mode amplifies bad driving habits by people who never learned how to use the accelerator pedal on a car properly.

Way too many people stomp, release, and repeat. This works in Mario Kart when the A-button input is a boolean value but in a Tesla with one-pedal driving turned on you end up repeatedly accelerating or decelerating and never go a constant speed.

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Sure, but this isn't a Tesla...

If you're going to drive this slowly you might as well buy a Tesla

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> If you're going to drive this slowly you might as well buy a Tesla

Model S Plaid has faster acceleration than Luce and they have similar top speed.

Reportedly, the Luce has more nimble handling.

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The casio watch is more accurate than a mechanical watch, it doesn't mean I should like it more
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> Model S Plaid has faster acceleration than Luce and they have similar top speed.

People don’t get sports cars just for the acceleration.

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The Luxe doesn’t look sporty at all, even if it has excellent handling.
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Good thing neither are sports cars.
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Tesla model S accelerates faster and has a higher top speed, and also more range on a smaller battery....

For a absolutely tiny fraction of the price!

It also looks better than this Nissan leaf knock-off!

I'm not the target market, this thing costs more than my house! But I do think the specs are... Disappointing...

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Tesla Model S is discontinued.

Whatever its merits, there wasn’t a market for it.

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Which suggests that a similar but worse product shouldn't sell either?
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The brand name counts for a lot in this market.

Lamborghini Urus sells well even though it’s inferior on every metric to cars a fraction of its price.

Tesla lost its premium brand cachet and consequently the Model S/X market.

Ferrari presumably has some data that there are buyers for a $500k scifi sports car with their logo on it.

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Just pointing out that, technically, if you're gonna drive slow, the Ferrari is the appropriate choice over the Tesla.
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