Wil Shipley at Call Me Fishmeal compares the car he’s ordered and the car already he has (life is soooo tough) Tesla v. Supercharged Lotus Elise

The Tesla people were uniformly cool and real and fun. During the open house there wasn’t a single question they dodged. They offered up problems they’d found, troubles they’d had getting into production, issues that loom on the horizon.

They test-drove the car themselves because they still all love it so much. One guy turned off traction control (we were not allowed to) and demonstrated how much power the car really has — it was, frankly, daunting, and he got waved down after two laps because the guy in charge thought he was going to power-slide into the defunct K-mart. (A very real possibility.)