Do You Rate Or Hate This Modded Tesla’s Vented Carbon Hood?

No one can say the Tesla Model 3 is lacking in the go department. Even the standard single-motor car can hit 60 mph (96 km/h) in 5.3 seconds, and the bi-motor Performance version’s 3.1-second capability has more than a few supercars looking over their shoulders.

But it’s always seemed weird to us that even that the Performance model looks almost indistinguishable from its slower brothers. Sure, you get 20-inch Überturbine wheels instead of the stock eighteens, but that’s pretty much it.

We like the idea of a sleeper as much as the next car nut, but to those of us who get tweaked up by the details that mark out an RS Audi or AMG Benz from their taxicab stablemates, fast Teslas can appear strangely dull.

So it’s not surprising that the aftermarket industry has jumped in to fill the need for Teslas with more attitude. And despite its modest mods, this Model 3 spotted by a Reddit user has a heap more visual attitude than it did when it left the factory.

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Merely swapping the stock rims for a set of aftermarket wheels radically changes the whole look of the Model 3, though we’re not sure this car’s Volks TE37s (or TE37 replicas) suit the car as well as styles with more spokes of a thinner design.

But what about that hood? We can’t be sure, but it looks like it might be a Robot Craftsman dry carbon fiber vented hood, or something very similar. Performance Speed shop lists them in various configurations, included single- and double-sided designs, priced from $1,280. Robot Craftsman also produces a full kit including bumpers and rear diffuser for Model 3 owners who really want to go to town.

Though it has the word ‘vented’ in the title, as far as we can see, it doesn’t have any vents. Which is just as well, because that would allow water to stream into the frunk when it rains. Instead, we guess it just pools in the recesses making four mobile fish tanks.

Presumably, it also eats into frunk volume, though this driver obviously thinks it’s an issue. I think it looks great, adding some much needed personality to the Model 3’s bland face, but opinion on Reddit seems split. Are you a fan?