2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test

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edited September 2014 in Tesla

image2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test

Our Long-Term 2013 Tesla Model S has a lot of features and one of my favorites is the adjustable ride height.

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  • quadricyclequadricycle Member Posts: 827
    Question, can you use the voice activation to change these settings while driving? Because if so, that is a very big plus.
  • cobrysoncobryson Member Posts: 110
    @quadricycle Why would that be a plus? You shouldn't ever really need to change it while driving, other than the automatic lowering at speed. When parked or in a parking lot, the touchscreen seems fine to me...
  • quadricyclequadricycle Member Posts: 827
    Where I live, road conditions vary greatly and some people have steep or very rough driveways. If I'm pulling in somewhere like this and I can just say "set height on high" on the fly instead of flipping through a touchscreen menu, then that's pretty valuable to me. Also, if you could switch the Tesla's damper settings (not sure if you can but some other cars allow it) it would be advantageous to do that on the fly when I turn off the main road onto one that gets leveled about every month by a tractor.
  • cobrysoncobryson Member Posts: 110
    I suppose that makes sense, but making any changes to the car's physical behavior while moving is probably a no-no for voice activation. I'd honestly be surprised if the touchscreen even lets you change these settings at >5mph anyway...
  • greenponygreenpony Member Posts: 531
    Please explain "no wheel-gap". Yesterday I saw a '90s Nissan Z of some sort with what I would consider "no wheel-gap" - it was lowered so much that any suspension movement would result in tires touching wheel arches, and was literally crashing like a go-kart over every little bump in the road. What's important to me is *consistent* wheel gap. Whether on a truck, minivan, BEV, or sports car, if the gap is consistent around the entire wheel arch, it looks better IMO. That's one reason I don't particularly like the looks of the GM trucks - their wheel arches are kind of squared off. Maybe it looks rugged, but it also looks just as silly as that Z car I just described.
  • quadricyclequadricycle Member Posts: 827
    @cobryson again: Right, the touch screen probably won't, and shouldn't, let you play with it while on the move, while say a Panamera with PASM/air-suspension lets you just push one of it 19,253 buttons to control this. But at least you can still do it on
  • zhangrenhouzhangrenhou Member Posts: 79
    That is a very stunning side-view photo of the Model S!
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