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Brian Potter

Why Tesla's Design Chief Preserved His Model S Plaid #001

Franz von Holzhausen has spent 18 years shaping Tesla's lineup, and his latest project is not a concept sketch. It is chassis 001 of the Model S Plaid Signature Edition, the first of just 250 units built, and he has already sent it off for protection rather than tuning.

The car, priced from $159,420 and sold only through invite-only emails to select customers, marks the end of Model S production as Tesla knows it. Von Holzhausen skipped the dyno and took it to Unplugged Performance's Hawthorne, California shop for a full preservation job.

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