A new Tesla Model 3 Performance, likely a new ‘Ludicrous’, has been spotted being filmed for what appears to be a promotional video.
For the last few months, we have been reporting on the exciting possibility of Tesla launching a new Model 3 Performance.
When Tesla launched the new Model 3 with an updated design last year, the automaker only brought back the RWD Standard Range and Dual Motor Long Range versions of Model 3. The Model 3 Performance, which had been in the lineup for years, was gone.
We have been spotting Model 3 Perofrmance test vehicles with camouflage for months, but we have been able to confirm that they are Performance versions of the Model 3 due to the bigger brake calipers.
More recently, the Model 3 Performance prototypes were also spotted with new sport seats.
Now, a new Model 3 Performance was spotted, this time without camouflage for the first time, at what appears to be a promotional video shoot in Valencia, Spain:
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Put a 100 KwH battery in the smaller model 3, make it quicker, I would buy one if the range was 400 miles + At this point I'm more concerned about range as it gets decimated in cold weather / highway / highway cold weather, than I am about performance.
This is just my opinion but I believe they'd sell a lot of an XLR model on the Y and 3 if they battery footprint would allow it. If they sold an XLR Model Y and 3 with 100 KwH battery pack and they got 375-400 EPA miles of range they would sell very well imo. Assuming the cost was proportional to the cost of the Cybertruck range extender, around $300 miles per KwH that would add roughly $6,000 to the purchase price for an extra 20 KwH of battery and make the XLR MY and XLR M3 about $54,000 and have an EPA range of roughly 370 miles for the Y and 409 for the 3...
This particular Model 3 Performance could be actually called a Model 3 ‘Ludicrous’ as it appears to feature a ‘Ludicrous badge’, which was previously used for Model S Performance vehicles before it became a ‘Plaid’.
The previous version of the vehicle was physically almost identical to two other trims. Tesla would basically put bigger brakes, slap a spoiler on the Model 3 Dual Motor, and unlock some more performance.
But this upcoming new version of the Model 3 Performance looks like it will have more hardware upgrade with the front bumper being different, new seats, new wheels, spoiler, and potentially more performance.
We don’t know when Tesla plans to launch the new Model 3 Performance/Ludicrous refresh, but it should be soon if they are now filming promotional videos.
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