![]() The exterior starts with Unplugged Performance’s S-APEX wide body kit, a package so fully integrated into the body, so seamlessly “hand-sculpted,” that you barely notice the car is 3.2 inches wider. “A lot of people come up to me and they're like, ‘Oh, is that the Performance model?’ And I'm like, ‘Yeah, it's the Performance, but it's not your stereotypical, normal Performance,” he said. Now, seven years later, I am in the parking lot at the Shell station at the base of Angeles Crest Highway and I’m meeting Kevin Lee and his beautiful white Tesla Model S that is so seamlessly modified that it looks not like it has been tuned by a tuner, but more like it’s been working out and eating kale. I saw Tesla from my point of view, which is that, as a car tuner, I instantly felt the entire car industry was suddenly antiquated.” So forget all of the eco stuff and all the other reasons people were buying Teslas. You can't have better center gravity than all of it on the bottom with the battery. “You can't have more torque than instant. “You can't shift faster than never,” he said. Tesla did, indeed, have performance chops right from the beginning and Schaffer recognized them. “That was because our role model was the Prius, which was deeply uncool to me just because it's the antithesis of excitement, whereas Tesla, unlike all the other electric car companies, it had performance as part of the very makeup of it.” “At that time, in 2013, it was deeply unpopular to be a car enthusiast and like electric cars,” he said. ![]() ![]() He started Unplugged Performance in 2013 and has been perfecting that trade since. “I think if you make the car lighter, make it handle better and brake better and go faster and have no downside, that to me is good taste.” I think function equals good taste,” he said. “Good taste is subjective but I think what is not subjective is function. Who Wins: Ford Mustang GT500 or a Tesla Model S?. ![]()
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