❤️❤️Hagerty/Jason Cammisa gives the Model S a Hero’s Send-off!❤️❤️

[dalton108]

“The most important car of a lifetime!”

It’s a great Tesla history lesson too! Features the prototype, launch edition and signature series! I think it’s definitely worth the watch for any CT fan!

I haven’t seen anybody giving Tesla this kind of love in a very long time! Well deserved!

AI Summary:

This video, presented by automotive journalist Jason Cammisa, explores the legacy of the Tesla Model S as it reaches the end of its 14-year production run. The central argument is that the Model S is the most significant car of the last 75 years because it pioneered a new model of software-defined, iterative automotive development.

Key takeaways include:

• Continual Iteration: Unlike traditional automakers who freeze designs for years, Tesla continuously updated the Model S through thousands of hardware and software changes. By the end of its production, the car shares only 3% of its parts with the original 2012 model (5:50 - 6:50).

• Industry Game-Changer: The Model S proved electric vehicles (EVs) could be desirable, fast, and practical. It introduced features that are now industry standards, such as over-the-air (OTA) software updates, massive touchscreens, and direct-to-consumer sales (11:22 - 11:38, 20:13 - 20:21).

• Efficiency and Engineering: Tesla focused on optimizing parts to gain range and performance—a concept Cammisa calls "battery bucks"—which allowed the car to improve significantly in weight and efficiency while keeping costs competitive compared to rivals like the BMW M5 (8:45 - 10:12, 17:14 - 18:24).

• The "Lazarus" Signature Edition: The video features a 2026 "Signature Edition" Model S, highlighting the evolution from the original prototype based on a Mercedes CLS to the final high-performance Plaid variants (16:08 - 16:45).

Cammisa concludes that by demonstrating the superiority of a software-defined, tech-first approach to car manufacturing, Tesla effectively forced the rest of the industry to change or risk obsolescence (19:56 - 20:40).



I’m so proud to own one of these masterpieces!

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[That Beast Mode]

“The most important car of a lifetime!”

It’s a great Tesla history lesson too! Features the prototype, launch edition and signature series! I think it’s definitely worth the watch for any CT fan!

I haven’t seen anybody giving Tesla this kind of love in a very long time! Well deserved!

AI Summary:

This video, presented by automotive journalist Jason Cammisa, explores the legacy of the Tesla Model S as it reaches the end of its 14-year production run. The central argument is that the Model S is the most significant car of the last 75 years because it pioneered a new model of software-defined, iterative automotive development.

Key takeaways include:

• Continual Iteration: Unlike traditional automakers who freeze designs for years, Tesla continuously updated the Model S through thousands of hardware and software changes. By the end of its production, the car shares only 3% of its parts with the original 2012 model (5:50 - 6:50).

• Industry Game-Changer: The Model S proved electric vehicles (EVs) could be desirable, fast, and practical. It introduced features that are now industry standards, such as over-the-air (OTA) software updates, massive touchscreens, and direct-to-consumer sales (11:22 - 11:38, 20:13 - 20:21).

• Efficiency and Engineering: Tesla focused on optimizing parts to gain range and performance—a concept Cammisa calls "battery bucks"—which allowed the car to improve significantly in weight and efficiency while keeping costs competitive compared to rivals like the BMW M5 (8:45 - 10:12, 17:14 - 18:24).

• The "Lazarus" Signature Edition: The video features a 2026 "Signature Edition" Model S, highlighting the evolution from the original prototype based on a Mercedes CLS to the final high-performance Plaid variants (16:08 - 16:45).

Cammisa concludes that by demonstrating the superiority of a software-defined, tech-first approach to car manufacturing, Tesla effectively forced the rest of the industry to change or risk obsolescence (19:56 - 20:40).



I’m so proud to own one of these masterpieces!

So good to see stuff like this.. As a car guy, I just want to see things like Leno and Clarkson does - keep it about the car, leave your politics out of it - Just the facts..

 

[RustyEdges]

Just the facts! I like it

 

[Engi_Nerd]

Cammisa is the only one who is enough of a journalist to be objective about Tesla's actual product and their long term, first principles decisions that move the market forward. Most automotive personalities like Matt Farah hate on Tesla out of insecurity and a desire to gatekeep to protect the relevance of very expensive legacy enthusiast vehicles.

 

[RustyEdges]

“The most important car of a lifetime!”

Not a mention of FSD, except for the 1 minute 30 seconds of a 2026 Model S on a perfect winding roadway to end the credits! Awesome execution or was that foreshadowing

 

[no%X#XMVk65v#cq]

Watched this last night, a great vid. It is amazing how quickly Tesla implements changes without anyone even noticing. On the flip side, this is frustrating as a consumer because it's kind of impossible to tell which innovations the car you're buying has, especially on the used market.

 

[Jabman]

I remember watching his review of the Cybertruck right before the actual deliveries started and I was months away from getting behind the wheel myself. It reaffirmed my spontaneous and oft-mocked choice to put $100 down on that “ugly dumpster car” when it was revealed back in November of 2019.
i remember thinking to myself, “who’s laughing now? Huh?!”
“Me,” I thought, as I hurdle forward in an insane speed in a stainless steel pick up truck that weighs 7 thousand pounds and will (eventually, at that time) drive me around when I’m done laughing.
Great review, non-biased, and apropos of the true send-off the Model S deserves

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

Great video, but zero mention of FSD until the credits.
On a road where I'd want to manually drive
His video on the truck was great too:

 

[CyberGus]

So good to see stuff like this.. As a car guy, I just want to see things like Leno and Clarkson does - keep it about the car, leave your politics out of it - Just the facts..

Just the facts! I like it

 

[Tallgeese179]

Love watching his videos, truly one of the few objective folks out there. Even when a car isn't for him or something he wouldn't buy (like the CT), he reviews fairly, highlights the advancements, and notes the pitfalls. His CT review and the Munro teardowns really sold me on the twuck. As a mechanical engineer and life long car obsessive, I have to appreciate a company that pushes the envelope so far.

 

[dalton108]

Love watching his videos, truly one of the few objective folks out there. Even when a car isn't for him or something he wouldn't buy (like the CT), he reviews fairly, highlights the advancements, and notes the pitfalls. His CT review and the Munro teardowns really sold me on the twuck. As a mechanical engineer and life long car obsessive, I have to appreciate a company that pushes the envelope so far.

100% agree.

 

[scjmc]

I always enjoy his videos. I even like the ones that are about cars I don't even care about.

 

[Zane Edwards]

Jason perfectly sums it up.

 

[Coolhandz]

Watched this last night, a great vid. It is amazing how quickly Tesla implements changes without anyone even noticing. On the flip side, this is frustrating as a consumer because it's kind of impossible to tell which innovations the car you're buying has, especially on the used market.

I agree. Constant iterations can make it tough to get a used one. I've had a few people come to me and ask what they should look for when they were shopping for a used Tesla. I always advise them to get the newest Tesla they can find and tell them to look at the door plates to see when they were made. That's actually one thing I like about Tesla; they don't wait to fix a problem, gripe, or implement a cost-saving part/process until the next model year and instead iterate as they go.

 

[Tanquen]

I bumped into this last night.
I had a Model S early on but it was the first one with the new front fascia the and my memory is trash but I could have sworn that was 2016?

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