---
title: "Drive Wire: Tesla Model S Downgraded by Consumer Reports"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-22"
modified: "2015-10-22"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/614/drive-wire-tesla-model-s-downgraded-by-consumer-reports"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Tesla News"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "luxury"
  - "model s"
  - "sedan"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Drive Wire: Tesla Model S Downgraded by Consumer Reports

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Transcript:

Bad news for Tesla…Consumer Reports has downgraded the Tesla Model S just months after giving the electric super-sedan its highest rating ever. The magazine changed its reliability rating for the Tesla from average to below average, sending Tesla’s stock price down approximately $10 a share. Apparently issues reported with the car include alignment, drivetrain problems on the first run of cars, and brake-disc warping. The good news for Tesla: 97 percent of owners say they’d buy another one.

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