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by rainsford 299 days ago
Maybe. But crucially Teslas, and EVs in general, don't look like muscle cars and they're not marketed that way. Yeah they can be insanely fast in a straight line, but the appeal of muscle cars was about a lot more than straight line performance.

I'm not actually sure any EV could capture what people like about muscle cars, but you're definitely not going to get it from some futuristic transport blob that just happens to have a low 0-60 time. The Tesla roadster might have captured some of the sports car magic, but it's telling they don't make that any more (for now). I don't know if they could do the same thing for muscle cars at all.

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I have a Polestar, its great. It's the closet EV that I've driven that's similar to my Corvette in terms of speed, handling etc.