Wing Commander

“Go on mister, give us another dance…” It’s a phrase Andrew Dharman hears over and over again when he takes his Stormtrooper-chic Tesla to shows. The Model X is such an attention-seeker and when he unleashes the magic beans to make the SUV do its pre-programmed dance (in which music plays, lights flash in staccato sequences, doors open, mirrors pivot and falcon-wings flap), people just can’t get enough. It’s a truly, brilliantly bizarre spectacle.

Of course, any Model X can do this. But there are two key hooks here: firstly, this is a 100D, an insanely quick variant at the high end of the model range, whose lithium-ion batteries produce immediate power to enable continuum-warping acceleration. And secondly, most Model X owners