You would expect Tesla's Chief Designer to go with a Tesla EV all the way. However, he is cheating with a car from his past. Back in the early 2000s, he secretly designed the Pontiac Solstice with a 2.4 EcoTech engine. That 2.4 is long gone, and his Solstice has a V8 under the hood. That's the last thing that you would expect from a Tesla executive.
Franz van Holzhausen has been with Tesla for 18 years. But he just couldn’t leave the past behind. So he is occasionally driving the car he designed for GM back in the early 2000s, but with a twist. It has a loud and proud LS2 V8 roaring from under the clamshell hood.
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