one uh it was just under NUMBER_TOKEN grand and and it was a great car but i really fell in love with the glass roof and i wanted the pro s and at the time the all-wheel drive um idNUMBER_TOKEN was not out yet and so i bought the pro s i sold the all-wheel drive or the regular pro s or the pro rear wheel drive car which was which was a great trade for me um and when i when i found out that the all-wheel drive hit our shores from germany i really didn't think i would need it now a lot of you think you need all-wheel drive for traction i i don't really think you do um personally you know this is a rear-wheel drive car the motor sits over the rear wheels and um and uh you know you've got good traction in the in the winter time for acceleration now yes you probably will have better traction with all-wheel drive but it's not like i'm living in a mountainous area here in southern you know connecticut and fairfield county so that really wasn't my biggest concern but i decided let me go drive one just to just to see what the difference was and uh so i drove the all-wheel drive and i gotta say it's just a world of difference in terms of performance now don't get me wrong this is not a performance orientated vehicle but i've owned a number of different electric vehicles in the past including the kona which would you know light up the front tires because that thing was a lot of torque a lot of power and front-wheel drive which doesn't make sense um a number of different teslas which are by definition just very fast uh off the line they just jump and um so i said let me see the difference and because the rear wheel drive uh is it's okay it's not great it feels like a regularly you know internal combustion now normally aspirated not turbocharged uh sport ute it's nothing to write home about it's very smooth incredibly smooth but you're not gonna sit there and wow your friends there are no party tricks with that car not to say that there are with the all-wheel drive either but so i went let me drive the car so i went up to curran in stratford and they had one and um i drove the car and i was very impressed with the acceleration big difference in terms of performance now off the line what i can tell you is i remember when i was a kid i used to go to these remember the carnivals that would come to your hometown and they had this ride called the whip and i never liked the ride but of course you know you had to you had to go on it because all your buddies were on it and this thing would come around and it would accelerate real fast and you get that queasy feeling in your stomach which i never liked um but but i went on it anyway and then it would stop and then it would go again and you get that feeling with a lot of electric vehicles especially the teslas um i don't particularly enjoy that feeling uh but what i would say is when i drove this car i sort of felt that just a tad bit before it it hit you know it's sort of optimal speed where it was um down
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