Wide Open Throttle - Check Out This Model X P90DL Opening It Up On The Autobahn

Whether chasing Pokemons or simply taking a nap with the semi-autonomous technology engaged, Tesla Model S and Model X owners do know how to make it into the news.

The Autopilot issue is under investigation, but there's more to the trendy luxury EVs than that.

The latest video, for instance, shows a Tesla Model X unleashed on the Autobahn. The German highway, famous worldwide for having certain parts with no speed limit whatsoever, is ideal for going all out in the ultra-fast P90D.

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MDarringer - 7/30/2016 9:49:19 AM

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And then the battery poops out and it is sidelined.

SanJoseDriver - 7/30/2016 5:45:59 PM

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Doesn't look like that is the case

valhallakey - 7/30/2016 8:13:50 PM

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Love the autobahn. Wish the US would put similar driving standards and laws in place and slowly raise the speed limits on our interstates. Trucks stay right, 60moh is their speed limit. Keep to the right except to pass etc...They probable would require a bit of fixing, re-engineering and re-thinking...like limiting the entrances and exits through cities, medians have good separators that are also high enough to block oncoming traffic headlights...and a zillion other little things....

MDarringer - 7/31/2016 10:30:12 AM

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It's fun to watch American tourists on the Autobahn because they think you just mash the accelerator and go.

Can you imagine what the green idiots would say at the notion of an American Autobahn? They would all defecate in their underwear and swear that ecological Armageddon is upon us.

mre30 - 7/31/2016 12:51:32 PM

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My in-laws live in Kansas (I'm from NYC area) and we do lots of driving every time I'm there (mostly in a Hertz SUV). So, I'll be on the Kansas Turnpike (speed limit 75), going an easy 80, and think to myself "...why are there speed limits places like this in America...?

Usually at that very moment, to interrupt my reverie, a 16 yr old kid (you can get a "farm" license in Kansas when you are 14 or 15 yrs old) FLIES by me going 90-100 MPH in a 1998 Buick or Pontiac with bald tires and windows open in the 98 degree heat because their AC is long gone. Invariably, the kid can barely see over the steering wheel.

That's when I say "..oh, I remember now why we have speed limits!"

PS - because most of Kansas' roads are undivided highways, when there is an auto accident, its usually horrific and usually somebody dies, because one driver usually crosses over onto the other side into oncoming traffic and there is a "head-on". Bad news!