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Not sure how many of you remember this, but less than two years ago we were in the middle of a Tesla Model S shooting brake craze. Anyone with some spare time and money on their hands and some imagination was having a crack at making the electric car something its creators never envisioned to be.
There were several builds that surfaced at the time, but without a doubt one of the most spectacular was the one born out of the imagination of Dutch collector Floris de Raadt.
A fan of this type of car body, de Raadt got his wish in the form of a mechanically stock car (or should we say electrically?), only modified and lengthened with the addition of aluminum body panels, a new c-pillar, a modified and extended roofline and modified windows.
At the time when the car first surfaced two years ago, it instantly went viral, and the response was so great that there was even talk about a possible limited production run of 20 units or so to be made, with the help of RemetzCar and Niels van Roij Design.
It soon became obvious the conversion of the Model S, even for this limited run, would prove prohibitively expensive, and that idea was dropped. On his part, de Raadt himself appeared to be mesmerized by the creation, and chances were the two would have been a pair forever. Only that fell through as well, because “life is an undefined path and some are just following their bliss.”
That’s how the sale ad for the Model S Performance shooting brake starts on a specialized website where the car has been recently listed. The asking price: the euro equivalent of about $245,000, which is more than double the price of the stock car.
But at least the future owner, if anyone gets around to paying that much for it, would “be King of the Tesla Supercharger Network. Or Queen. Whichever comes first.”
A fan of this type of car body, de Raadt got his wish in the form of a mechanically stock car (or should we say electrically?), only modified and lengthened with the addition of aluminum body panels, a new c-pillar, a modified and extended roofline and modified windows.
At the time when the car first surfaced two years ago, it instantly went viral, and the response was so great that there was even talk about a possible limited production run of 20 units or so to be made, with the help of RemetzCar and Niels van Roij Design.
It soon became obvious the conversion of the Model S, even for this limited run, would prove prohibitively expensive, and that idea was dropped. On his part, de Raadt himself appeared to be mesmerized by the creation, and chances were the two would have been a pair forever. Only that fell through as well, because “life is an undefined path and some are just following their bliss.”
That’s how the sale ad for the Model S Performance shooting brake starts on a specialized website where the car has been recently listed. The asking price: the euro equivalent of about $245,000, which is more than double the price of the stock car.
But at least the future owner, if anyone gets around to paying that much for it, would “be King of the Tesla Supercharger Network. Or Queen. Whichever comes first.”
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