New feather in the hat: Elon Musk impressed with Tesla Model S new fastest four-door record

CALIFORNIA [USA]: Elon Musk is a proud boss. The Tesla CEO, who is a serial Twitter users and has over 28 million followers, shared that Model S made the second fastest record for a four-door sedan ever at Laguna Seca in California. He also mentioned that the video of the feat will release soon.


The Electric Vehicle (EV) maker posted a video of the Model S Plaid powertrain and chassis prototype on Twitter.


With this new version of the Model S, the EV maker completed a 1:36.555 lap time, achieving a new record lap for a four-door sedan, which is a big improvement over the previous best time in a Tesla Model S P100D.


Musk reportedly said can go faster than the "ludicrous" speed the company's vehicles currently achieve. He also said that they broke the fastest lap record for 4-door vehicles with a Model S at the Laguna Seca racetrack, and they are going to release a video about it soon. The automaker has now released the video, but we learn that the vehicle has been modified, Electrek reported on Wednesday.

In another tweet, the 48-year-old entrepreneur said that Model S, currently located at Nürburgring, has seven seats.


The Tesla Model S promises to go from 0-60 mph in 2.4 seconds. It remains to be seen how the electric car with a 370 mi range shattered Jaguar XE SV's one minute 37.54 second lap time record.

Earlier, Musk had said that Tesla was reserving the "Plaid mode", which is a reference to Spaceballs like Tesla's other performance modes, for the next-generation Roadster.