Tesla Model Y Performance
Why 8.3: It is not interesting to drive and that is not what it is measured on. The Model Y Performance is bought as the only car in the household, plugged in every night, and driven distances that nothing else in this category comes close to. On the two things this Index actually scores, almost nothing beats it.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
Motor whine, a faint inverter hum under hard acceleration, and tyre roar. Tesla adds no composition at all and has never claimed to. There is nothing here to rate, which puts it exactly where the Plaid already sits.
electric · rated 0.5 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €56k (2020) → €26k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Two ISOFIX positions on the outer rear seats, the outer pair being the ones the standard covers.
The rear anchors are the supported route — the manual points child seats there, and front-passenger ISOFIX is the exception rather than the rule. A belt-mounted seat up front needs the airbag off, and cars with a rear row don't always fit a deactivation switch, precisely because the rear seats exist.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
There is no craft argument to make here. The steering is numb, the ride on the Performance's stiffer springs is the firmest way to buy a Model Y, the interior is a screen and a bench, and the car has never once tried to be entertaining. What it has is 3.5 seconds to 60 mph, a charging network that works, and the ownership pattern of an appliance — which is exactly what the Index rewards, and it would be dishonest to weight it any other way. These cars do commutes, airport runs, road trips and in a meaningful number of cases ride-hail shifts, and they do them at annual mileages that would make most of the sports cars on this list look like ornaments. The flip score is held slightly short of the top by the 2021–22 delivery shortage, when some cars did change hands above sticker; that window closed and never reopened. The 2025 Juniper facelift brought a new front and rear, a stiffer body and a marginally different Performance calibration, and changed none of the above.