And? How many people do you think buy high performance cars? The answer is: not many.
> the Plaid is still the fastest car you can buy without dropping a half million
And you said:
> Nope: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/19/23312956/lucid-air-sapphi...
Except you can't actually buy the car you linked to. That's a pretty big miss in a conversation about cars you can buy. In fact, I would say one of the two defining features of "cars you can buy" is the fact that you can buy them.
Don't feel too bad that Tesla doesn't lead here. Tesla doesn't lead in real world range tests either:
https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
Tesla makes good ads though. I like the bit with the parrot:
I would suspect that it isn't too different from the Plaid.