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Paper stats are one thing but show me this beating even something like a GT3 in an actual circuit race, or posting a Nurburgring time worthy of the price tag.
by Neil44 9y ago
Paper stats are one thing but show me this beating even something like a GT3 in an actual circuit race, or posting a Nurburgring time worthy of the price tag.
I’m sure in another 5 or 10 years they’ll get there but these figures are for headlines not the track.
- muwaisaac 9y agoI'd like to see motor trend test it on the track and against competitors
- thinkloop 9y agoAre you saying that the numbers aren't true, or that it has other weaknesses that would cause it to lose a race?
- Natanael_L 9y agoOverheating. Like previous models, it likely can't cool down the engines and batteries fast enough to sustain that power output.
- Neil44 9y agoThink of it this way, if some server or database came out claiming incredible benchmark numbers you’d say okay now show me some real world workloads. Same here. 0-60 is an artificial benchmark, a circuit time is a real world workload.
- mrep 9y agoThey already have a test car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3380&v=aXWfL-1ieuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3380&v=aXWfL-1ie... I'm pretty sure they aren't making it up.
- Neil44 9y agoI haven't said they're making up the 0-60 time. I'm saying show me a test against the competition that lasts for longer than 1.9 seconds. Don't get me wrong it's a deeply impressive vehicle. I'm just not an Elon fanboy and the precise milisecond that what Porsche, McLaren et. al. customers want something like that is when they will start making it. It's not like one company is the future and the rest of them are dinosaurs. One company is small and loosing money and the others are making it, enough of it to buy Tesla any time they feel like it, which being realistic is what's going to happen eventually.
- justin66 9y ago> Paper stats are one thing but show me this beating even something like a GT3 in an actual circuit race, or posting a Nurburgring time worthy of the price tag. An actual race is one thing: you wouldn't expect most "supercars" to finish an actual race without being torn down and rebuilt for the race. I have no idea how you'd prepare something like a Bugatti for an endurance race, but I know the end result wouldn't be worth the expense. GT3 cars are a pretty good example of something bridging the gap. (On the other hand, the Bugatti is said to be a pleasant car to drive on the street, which I wouldn't necessarily expect out of a GT3 car.) One lap at Nurburgring? I imagine Tesla can swing that. It seems like it would just be function of keeping the battery cool enough. If they found a way to air cool the battery effectively at speed, Nurburgring is a pretty friendly track for that.