Used Model S deals

How a deal grade is computed

Scope: used Tesla Model S, every trim, model year 2012 or newer, sold used, anywhere in the US, with distance from Miami shown on each row. Florida listings carry a Florida flag. Plaid and Long Range (including Long Range Plus) are the focus trims. Every row links to the public page it came from, and the as-of time is the fetch time.

Fair asking price is the median asking price of the other listings in this snapshot that share the same trim group (Plaid, Long Range, Performance, P-series, Dual Motor, RWD / Standard, or Other), have a price and an odometer, and carry no title flag (a title not reported clean, a salvage, buyback, lemon or flood mention). The listing itself and any other row with the same VIN are left out. A 2016 75D is never compared to a 2023 Plaid. The same-model-year pool is used when it has at least 3 comps; otherwise model years within one year; otherwise all years in that trim group. Comps start inside 10,000 miles of the listing's odometer, then 20,000, then any mileage, until at least 3 remain. When at least 6 comps show a negative price-per-mile line with a correlation of at least 0.3, fair price shifts along that line to the listing's mileage. The comps used are listed under each row.

Delta = (fair ask − asking price) / fair ask. Great Deal is at least 8% under. Good Deal is at least 3% under. Fair Deal is within 3% either way. High Price is more than 3% and less than 8% over. Overpriced is 8% or more over. Fewer than 3 comps, or no odometer, is Insufficient comps. A missing price is No price. This is a CarGurus-style scale computed here, not a CarGurus or TrueCar score.

VIN check: on 2021+ Model S (5YJ VINs) the 8th character is the motor code (6 = tri-motor Plaid, 5 = dual-motor). Rows a source calls Plaid whose VIN says dual-motor are flagged, left ungraded, and kept out of comps. A VIN that decodes as Model X, 3, or Y is flagged the same way. Flags: title and accident information comes from the source (TrueCar's history summary, the Craigslist title-status field, the Find My Electric history box and seller title field, and title words in the seller's own text). Flagged rows are still graded against clean comps, so a big discount on a flagged row is usually the flag, not a bargain. Dealer pages read through AutoDealersHub carry no history; run a report before buying. When the same VIN appears on two sites, the lower ask is kept and the other is noted. Bring a Trailer results are past auctions and are not used in grades.