Carlos from Spain:

Right  Acceleration in a straight line gets old very quick, but make it uneventful, linear and silent too and I can't see how is can be amusing after the first day.

Accelerating out of a corner with a good soundtrack and great changes however is always fun, and many times independently of the actual HP as most of the time you won't be using all of it in such corners public roads, and it's the complete experience that does it (handling, weight, sound, gears, steering, etc)

Two very different things. Cars built for the first scenario leave me completely meh no matter how fast they accelerate.

 

It's just difference culture. In America roads are long straight and wide. Their highway tops out at 60ish 75 mph. Drag racing is a big hit there so the emphasis will always be on straight line performance and stop light to stop light 'races'. Teslas are BUILT to that specification.

In Europe, most roads are narrow and twisty, and with the Autobahn, the emphasis is more about car handling, and/or acceleration performance to 'hyperspeed'. 0-60 or even 75 mph is just getting start on the highway onramp. What happens after is important too. 

Braking is another important attribute. For American focused cars, the car only need enough brake from the timing lights to the turn around point, every 90 mins or so. But for European or even rest of world scenarios, mountain switchbacks could be a daily thing, and those could go on for 10-15 in a row going down hill, a brake failure means flying off the mountain. 

Heck at Pikes Peak, if one is coming down from the peak, there is a brake temp checking station roughly half way down, they check the brake temp of every car there, if your brakes are warmer enough, they make you park on the side to cool them off first before continuing the journey down. Guess what kind of cars get stopped most? American domestic ones. 


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