Q: What racing heritage is behind the S-APEX build?

Every S-APEX draws directly from Dark Helmet, Unplugged Performance’s championship-winning Pikes Peak race car. That car has posted a sub-10-minute Pikes Peak time and hypercar-level lap times at Laguna Seca, performance that puts it among the fastest production-based vehicles on earth regardless of powertrain. The program reflects the company’s roughly 12 years of Tesla-specific motorsport engineering, so the upgrades are proven in competition rather than styled for the look of speed.