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This Hidden Tesla Feature Is For Secret Agents Only

Giuseppe Macri Tech Editor
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Owners of the Tesla Model S may be surprised to discover the leading electric car has a very wet feature reserved for secret agents only.

Thanks to a newly discovered feature reported by Jalopnik, aspiring MI6 recruits can wow their fellow spies 007-style by transforming their ride into the Lotus Esprit S1 submersible from “The Spy Who Loved Me.”

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Sleuths need only select the “T” logo and type in “007” to activate the easter egg, which includes a secondary reference to Jules Verne by letting users select a depth of “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.”

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk purchases the Lotus used in the 1977 film for $866,000 in 2013.

“It was amazing as a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and have it transform into a submarine underwater,” Musk said in a statement according to The Guardian. “I was disappointed to learn that it can’t actually transform. What I’m going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it transform for real.”

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Unfortunately, it doesn’t include the surface-to-air missiles.

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