Tesla Model S for sale

The big, beautiful, stupidly quick family sedan that started it all, the Model S remains a tremendous luxury car. With amazing technology, plush seating and a range that can still embarrass brand new cars from German rivals, a pre-loved Model S remains one of the best electric cars on sale today. Fill all five seats, plant your foot and get ludicrous (responsibly).

Tesla didn’t just re-invent the Electric Car when the Model S hit the road back in 2012, they put luxury car makers on notice. This was the future: an executive sedan that was roomier, quieter, cleverer and faster than any other car on sale.

With a flat battery running the length of the car and the motors taking up as much space as a watermelon, Tesla found acres of space that would otherwise have been filled by internal combustion gubbins. They then gave that space back to the occupants, – so much, in fact, that owners started camping in their cars. There is literally a camping mode in the air con screen to cater to them.

Tesla was also the first to offer an infotainment system that was bigger than your telly, with a huge vertical touchscreen replacing the usual knobs and dials that most car companies were using at the time. They also made that system upgradable. Over the air.

So it has the smarts – what else does it have? Two words:

Ludicrous Mode.

Find a model with Ludicrous Mode and you’re looking at a car that’ll pelt you to 60 miles an hour in 2.5 seconds, faster than any other executive family car on the planet.

All this wrapped up in a luxury package that has aged very well.

Battery degradation has been minimal, the infotainment continues to be upgraded while you sleep and the mechanics tend to be in pretty good shape. Early models had teething troubles with the motors but most cars of the earliest vintages had that taken care of under warranty.

If you’re searching for a large executive sedan, the Model S – even more so than the later Model 3 – is a bargain.