Tesla Model X Plaid
Why 6.0: 1,020 hp and three rows — the numbers-car formula applied to a family hauler. It racks up genuine miles doing school runs and airport trips, which is exactly why the involvement score and the ownership score point in opposite directions.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
Three motors, a faint rising whine and a great deal of tyre roar from a two-and-a-half-tonne body. Tesla adds no composed sound and makes no claim to. As with the saloon, there is nothing here to rate beyond the pedestrian warning tone.
electric · rated 0.5 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €110k (2021) → €66k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Outboard rear seats carry LATCH lower anchors and top tethers; the falcon-wing doors don't change the anchor layout.
No LATCH hardware in the front seat; front passenger position isn't a documented child-restraint spot.
This is the base 5-seat layout — Model X's optional 6- and 7-seat configurations add 2nd/3rd-row captain's chairs not covered here.
FMVSS 225 (US federal LATCH mandate, lower anchors + top tether required from Sept 2002) (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
It gets driven plenty — school runs, airport loops, road trips on Autopilot — which is precisely why it scores where it does: the miles are transportation, not enthusiasm. The Plaid button is a party trick performed twice per passenger and then retired. Owners cross-shop it against an Escalade, not a Cayman, and the doors close the sale more often than the horsepower does. High utility, minimal involvement: the cleanest example of why this index needs two numbers.