A little bit of Google searching have identified this as a Teschner XLII Prevost Ultimate Class manufactured in Germany. I can only assume that they're not limited to travel in the USA.

Just so long as he doesn't show up with the rest of the Ko-Dan Armada.

Ah, gotcha. Edmunds is being overly pedantic.

Excuse me, Edmunds, not CR.

It's up to Consumer Reports what they put on the list. If the service center does it for you they'll add it to the list of items they acted upon during the visit. It'd be irresponsible for Tesla service to do otherwise.

The updates are staged in waves. If there's an update released that hasn't made it to your car at the time you take it in to a service center they'll update the car manually.

Same thing happened to my car and they replaced the tires.

The smartphone app uses a login/password combination, so it's not just a four digit PIN.

"Scare-EDJ-umi-cate"

I think the question that hasn't been answered is; difficult to work on for whom? I've seen a lot of examples here of the insane things that mechanics, both factory-authorized and third party have to go through to work on the cars. Compared to all those examples the Model S is extremely simple, and my conversation…

If it's what you need to fit your narrative of the Model S as an unreliable, difficult car, go nuts.

So, the basis for your opinion about the reliability of the Model S is an article written 13 months ago? Tesla have been working pretty hard on the platform since then and a lot has changed. As I mentioned earlier, I've had no problems due to software malfunction. I had the rear window mechanism fail, but that was an…

As the owner of a Model S representing a single random sample, I've had zero software problems, and I've yet to hear of a horror story involving a problem that required a custom software patch. I'd love to read some of the stories you're referring to though. Can you provide a link?

Shitfeast.

So, 11 gallons with a range of 310 miles comes out to just over 28 mpg. Wikipedia reports that the NEDC test yields 112 mpg US, which with a tank of this size should be a range of over 1200 miles. There's must be some crucial bit of information I don't understand that accounts for this discrepancy.

So, there's something about the range data that I don't get. It supposedly gets ~94 mpg and the total range is 310 miles, which puts the gas tank at about three and a quarter gallons. I can't find any mention on BMW's site of how large the fuel tank really is.

Are you interested in engine noises from a safety perspective, or is it driven by nostalgia?

Electrification has been over-blown by the media. With the exception of a relatively small group of early adopters, the market continues to be primarily driven by regulatory requirements.

It should be interesting to see how the first Chinese Tesla knock-offs go. And by interesting, I mean highly entertaining.

I grabbed the same image the first time it ran and made the necessary modifications :)