Tesla Model S is the Car of the DECADE

Hagerty, the US’s leading Classic Car Insurance specialist, has declared that the electric Tesla Model S is the car of the decade. Can that be right?

If you were to choose the car of the decade, perhaps you’d be looking at something like LaFerrari of McLaren P1, or maybe something more prosaic that stands out as a big move forward.

But Hagerty, the Classic Car insurance specialist in the US, has declared that as far as they’re concerned, the Tesla Model S is the car of the decade. Which is quite hard to swallow.

How can a car which, by ‘Premium’ standards isn’t all that well bolted together, doesn’t have an exciting soundtrack and really isn’t particularly good looking be the car of the decade?

But Hagerty’s conclusion does make sense when you look at what made them pick the Tesla Model S against all-comers, and although we’re still not sure the Model S is a car which will be a collector’s dream in the years to come, it does make sense.

Hagerty say:

Only one has shown the world not only the efficiency and environmental advantages of electric power, but it has also shown the performance advantages of electric power and wrapped it all up in a sleek, appealing, and expensive-but-attainable package.

In other words, only one has made the electric car cool, and that’s the Tesla Model S.

And they’re right. Until Musk’s Tesla rolled out the Model S, electric cars were, on the whole, quirky oddities driven by enviro-mentalists prepared to put up with high prices, odd looks and feeble range. But the Model S changed all that.

Without the Model S there wouldn’t be the huge push by Premium car makers to deliver electric cars, and EVs would probably still be the preserve of the anoraks.

On that basis, the Model S probably deserves its ‘Car of the Decade’ honour.