Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk proudly introduced the Model S's ultra-high performance "Ludicrous Mode."
With the new performance setting, the newly christened Model S P90D is capable of making the sprint to 60 mph in a supercar-shaming 2.8 seconds, Tesla claimed.
Ludicrous Mode beats the car's current and equally outlandish "Insane Mode" acceleration time by 0.3 seconds.
During the press conference, Musk boasted that Ludicrous Mode — a reference to the 1987 "Star Wars" spoof "Spaceballs" — is "faster than falling."
Reaction to the latest performance offering from Tesla has been swift and for the most part very positive from the press and the public alike.
An impressed Car and Driver magazine tweeted that "Tesla has lost its freaking mind."
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