2026 Tesla Model Y Performance brings sportier look and Porsche-baiting acceleration

The updated version of Tesla’s fastest Mannequin Y SUV has somehow been unleashed – revealing a pretty more aggressive exquisite and acceleration that will outpace most electric Porsche Macans.

Tesla’s Mannequin Y Performance rejoins because the flagship following the starting up of the closely revised electric SUV earlier in 2025.

It comes with a 0-60mph (0-97km/h) acceleration enlighten of 3.3 seconds, which might perchance collected translate to about 3.4 seconds for 0-100km/h – shaving several tenths off the old mannequin’s 3.7sec time.

That makes the Performance variant sooner than all electric Porsche Macan units with the exception of the flagship Turbo (3.3sec 0-100km/h, with Chrono Kit) and would match the 3.4sec of the brand new rival MG IM6. It’s seriously sooner than the BYD Sealion 7 Performance (4.5sec).

The Mannequin Y Performance aspects a sportier, angled lower bumper, pronounced rear spoiler, and fills its wheelarches with the biggest wheels within the vary – 21-plod Y-shaped alloys dubbed ‘Arachnid’.

Inside, extra beneficial properties over the Lengthy Range AWD are front sports actions seats that furthermore add thigh extensions, carbon fibre neat parts, and a 16-plod QHD touchscreen.

There are furthermore “extraordinary” drive modes and electronic constantly variable damping shared with the Mannequin 3 Performance.

Regardless of the elevated speed, the Performance comes with a WLTP vary no longer noteworthy shorter than the Lengthy Range AWD variant – 579km versus 600km.

Tesla says the Performance can add 243km of vary in barely 15 minutes on the company’s Supercharger recharging network.

The Performance carries the equal of a $20,600 top class over the Lengthy Range AWD within the UK, one of many restricted markets at show offering the brand new flagship. The Lengthy Range AWD starts from $68,900 in Australia.

Tesla Australia has previously indicated it might perchance truly perchance over every other time add the Performance mannequin to the native line-up. It at show affords the Tesla Mannequin 3 Performance, which charges from $80,900. Based totally totally on the $4k top class between the RWD/AWD variants of the 3 and Y, the Mannequin Y Performance will worth from $84,900.

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