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One of the first customers who bought a Model S
was Christian von Koenigsegg, a Swede who like Elon has
founded his own car company called Koenigsegg Automo-
tive. McLaren F1 used to be the fastest production car in
the world, but Koenigsegg broke that record when their
car reached 241 mph [388 km/h]. Von Koenigsegg has been
a fan of Elon since 2001 when he heard that Elon was
going to build space rockets. After driving the Model S, von
Koenigsegg explained that it’s inevitable that electric cars
will become more popular than cars powered by oil.^447
The next model from Tesla would be an SUV called
Model X, so Model X is not the BlueStar. The history of the
SUV [Sport Utility Vehicle] began after the Second World
War when large military vehicles were brought home from
the battlefields. The upper class used these vehicles when
they hunted animals in the wilderness. As the middle class
wanted to act as if they were part of the upper class, they
also began to use these vehicles when they hunted food in
the supermarket.
To save money, Model X has the same platform as
Model S. “The Model X is a continuation of the Model
S story,” Franz von Holzhausen said. “We looked at the
segment because it is really demanding and we wanted to
break into it with a game changer. Minivans are incredible,
they have such a versatile interior but you have to sell your
soul to drive one. And SUVs are horrible inefficient in their
utilization of interior space. We wanted to merge attractive
and usable.”^239
The next model after Model X will probably be the af-