First real drive. The was a little squeak that went away, else it is very silent. Even not being the P version, acceleration is more than I will realistically use. Zero regrets not getting the P which would have been $35k more with ludicrous, which I would use twice and forget about it anyway. I floored it and it was too much for confort so far, surely will get used to it, but it has a lot of torque obviously. Handling at the extreme is somewhat below the RRS supercharged, in one tight turn, that said, the speed used in that turn exceeds what a normal person would drive so not that relevant (every loose item in the car would fly away). More importantly steering was very direct and very reactive, on par with the RRS. You can feel the weight, but it is different than a SUV: the weight is very present but you feel it is low, so the car corners flat. On that very tight corner at high speed, the front tires gave up, granted they have only 100 miles... Also the tires are Pirelli Scorpion which are all season tires in the end. But this was never meant to be a sport car in the first place, so as a people mover, the confort and drive feel is way up there. Plus the cabin is very spacious and the glass windshield/roof is out of this world.
Battery range was disappointing. I started at 87% and ended at 62% (which was exactly what was predicted, freaky) but there was traffic. Average was 444 wh/miles (peak at 900 had to try it), So that gives a 10-90% usable range of 180 miles. But it was cold, so in summer it will be more. Cannot do two round trips to that work location though with enough confidence. Also a portion of the drive was at 75mph or so, where efficiency probably starts to drop. But there was more traffic than usual... Also this is with 22” wheels, 20” are said to have a better range but not clear how much better. After reading some more, people are seeing 320 to 450kw/m, so I am way up there, not surprisingly
Autopilot: I did not use any advanced features yet, but the bottom line is that it is 5 years ahead of the Porsche and Land Rover systems. Lane recognition is much much better even with sun glare, and the display shows all the cars around, even at highway speed, and is super accurate and reactive. Basically it is real tine which give a huge confidence to how the system works. I will spare for now some of the implementation details but clearly you can see there were a lot of updates and work to make it what it is today. The speed control is very reactive and feels was more intelligent than what I had tried before, more “human” like with some level of anticipation. Auto change lane is freakingly good and can merge with incoming traffic like a human would (although less aggressive). Just put the turn indicator where you want to move and the car does all the rest. The autopilot work on secondary roads too, but the speed is more limited for safety.