Tesla Plaid

[MrBonus]

Originally Posted by 911boost

How has the KITT steering wheel not been mentioned yet? Is that the production wheel?

Tesla/Elon seem to design cars a bit like the French. They add design elements that are eccentric for the point of being eccentric.

[upsscott]

To be fair, the Porsche has way more soul.

https://youtu.be/gfWNRyqhRRM

[Steve Carlton]

No doubt. Although it didn't make much difference, it seemed like the Tesla was jumping the light and the Taycan was lagging it.

[upsscott]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

No doubt. Although it didn't make much difference, it seemed like the Tesla was jumping the light and the Taycan was lagging it.

True. That guy seems to do that in all his videos.

[GH85Carrera]

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

[flipper35]

That GT2 could run all day at those lap times. The Tesla?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

That GT2 could run all day at those lap times. The Tesla?

So could the Cayenne.

[MrBonus]

Originally Posted by flipper35

That GT2 could run all day at those lap times. The Tesla?

I would hope so. It isn't a 5000 pound full sized sedan.

[aschen]

well hey by that logic, in the real world with stops and turns, its faster than a 997 gt3, which aint too bad for a what looks like a fancy accord.

Nürburgring lap records as a metric for fastest car is as problematic as the drag strip times

[aschen]

and if you look at the wikipedia list the plaid is 7.35.5 for the full lap and the Crazy edition cayenne turbo is actually slower when you use the same full lap

Set a SUV record with 7:38.925 on the 20,832 m lap.[172][173]

No tesla fan boy but plaid is a pretty absurdly fast sedan in any non endurance metric.


I think the cayenne could probably hot lap most of the day with a ton of cool down laps and a half dozen or so sets of tires. It certainly will hold up better than an EV to the abuse but I don't think it would be happy with too many back to back hot laps near its record time

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by MrBonus

I would hope so. It isn't a 5000 pound full sized sedan.

So how many laps could a Tesla do if you got a hot lap, then a cool down lap, in an hour?

[MrBonus]

Originally Posted by flipper35

So how many laps could a Tesla do if you got a hot lap, then a cool down lap, in an hour?

Probably not many. I certainly wouldn't buy any Tesla for its ability to do track days.