Tesla Model S Plaid Rental in Orange County
This red Tesla Model S Plaid, white interior, is based in Orange County, the quickest car in our entire fleet at a 1.99 second run to sixty. Three motors deliver 1,020 horsepower in total silence, so passengers laugh and then ask for another launch. It seats five with a boot at each end, at one of the lowest daily rates for what it does.
How It Drives
A 1.99 second run to sixty is difficult to describe to somebody who has not felt it, because there is no build up and no noise to warn you. Three electric motors deliver 1,020 horsepower instantly and simultaneously, and the car simply relocates. Try the launch from a stop on Newport Coast Drive on the climb toward Pelican Hill, and the sensation is closer to a catapult than to acceleration. Most passengers laugh involuntarily the first time. Away from that, it is a quiet five seat sedan with a cavernous boot at each end and a ride tuned for comfort rather than sport. The gap between what it does and what it looks like is the entire appeal.
How It Photographs
Red over a white interior is the highest contrast Tesla specification available, and the white cabin is what saves this car from photographing as an appliance. The Model S body is deliberately smooth with almost no detail, so exterior frames rely entirely on the colour, and red gives you something to work with against the harbour at Newport or the storefronts at Fashion Island. Open the doors and the white interior with its minimal dashboard becomes a strikingly graphic image on its own. Shoot the cabin as a separate subject. The frunk and the boot open together to make a surprisingly good frame as well.
Why This One
Quickest vehicle in our entire fleet at 1.99 seconds, ahead of every Lamborghini, Ferrari and McLaren we run. We keep one Model S, in this red and white specification, and nothing else we own delivers acceleration with no noise and no build up, which is a genuinely different sensation from a combustion car and the reason passengers react the way they do. It is also five seats with a boot at each end, at one of the lowest daily rates in the fleet for what it does. Nothing else in Orange County combines those in a single car.
What's On This One
This is the Plaid, the three motor version of the Model S, with 1,020 horsepower and 1,050 lb-ft sent through all wheel drive. Red paint covers a body with the Plaid's carbon spoiler at the rear, and the cabin is trimmed in white with the standard 17 inch landscape touchscreen, a 12.3 inch driver display and a glass roof running the length of the car. Five seats, four doors, a frunk up front and a hatchback boot behind. The wheel is a yoke rather than a round rim, which is the one thing every first time driver needs a minute to adjust to.
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