Tesla Model S charges its way to a new consumer high

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ts price tag aside, the Tesla Model S P85D is nearly perfect.

A year after Consumer Reports published a harsh critique of the electric sedan it once ranked above all other cars, Tesla's new speedy, all-wheel-drive version of the vehicle scored so high it shattered the rating system.

"The Tesla initially scored 103 in the Consumer Reports Ratings system, which by definition doesn't go past 100," Mark Rechtin, an editor at Consumer Reports, wrote in a review published Thursday. "The car set a new benchmark, so we had to make changes to our scoring to account for it."

In 80 years of testing, no car has ever earned that high a score.

Read the Huffington Post story - “Tesla's Model S Is So Great It Broke Consumer Reports' Scoring System.”