When you think of James Bond, you think of Sean Connery, Vesper Martinis and the sickest vehicles you've ever seen IRL or in the movies. There are just few fictional characters in this world cooler than Bond, and now the Tesla Model S car has made it a little easier for you to harness that coolness.
There is a function in the control menu that lets you turn your Tesla Model S into the Lotus Esprit submarine from the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Well... sort of. It's really just an Easter egg that lets you imagine that happening, but it's still pretty awesome.
If you've got a Tesla Model S and want to try this out for yourself, all you have to do is go to the control menu, hold down the "T" button at the top, and this will bring up the technician login screen. Type in "007," Bond's iconic secret agent code number of course, and what was once an image of your regular Tesla Model S sedan in the control menu will be transformed into the Lotus Esprit submarine. The control menu will also tell you the depth or how many leagues you're going underwater, but remember, you're not actually inside the Lotus Esprit, so keep this thing on land, ya dig?
You can watch this video from YouTube user Josh Heffner for step-by-step instructions on how to access the Bond Easter egg in your Tesla Model S.
Jalopnik confirmed with Tesla Motors that this is indeed a real Easter egg. Though it's getting a lot of attention now, it was actually a part of a software update from nearly a year ago.
If you know Elon Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, this Bond Easter egg makes perfect sense to you. The billionaire famously bought the Lotus Esprit model used in The Spy Who Loved Me for $997,000 from an auction in London in September 2013.
"I was disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform," Musk said in a statement about the purchase in October 2013. "What I'm going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it transform for real."
There's no word yet on whether or not Musk has achieved that feat, although he probably hasn't since this seems like something the perennial headline-grabber would be eager to tell the press. So we'll all just have to get our kicks from this Bond Easter egg until he makes this submersible automobile a reality.
[H/T Business Insider Australia]
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