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Now for some real numbers. From the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

Plaid's official full lap time is 7 minutes and 35.579 seconds and an average speed of 164.615 km/h (102 mph).

Not bad for an electric car. ALMOST as fast as a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, the big SUV!

The 911 GT2 RS did a lap in 6:38 Almost a minute faster than "the fastest production car in the world" that Tesla sells. That is the true measure of a fast car. A drag race is one one small part of a car's performance.

Now we know.

No doubt whatsoever, that Tesla is one fast car at the drag strip. But in real world where cars have to stop and turn, it is almost as a fast a large SUV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times
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