Tesla COTY Reminds Me Of...

Tesla's Model S winning the Motortend Car Of The Year award reminds me of another premature award, when the Nobel Prize committee awarded a newly elected Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, apparently for things he was going to do.

I'm not saying the S isn't a great car, it might be, based on the few professional reviews that have been published. Only a few hundred Model S have been shipped to end consumers so far, and Tesla is still producing only a couple hundred cars a week. The S is not yet in what you would call "mass production".