Tesla's Model S P85D hits the road for some drag racing, shames the competition

This because you've, (self admittedly), rode around blasting your subwoofer loud and proud, possibly annoying whole neighborhoods full of people? Dude, I have news for you.
Guilty as charged. At least I can change the channel and want to hear all the noise I produce.
The sound of a well tuned engine is a whole lot more pleasing to many ears, than some clown riding around with the car trunk buzzing from, "obnoxiously loud bass for the sake of being obnoxious".
Loud exhaust and a well tuned engine is worlds apart. Anyone can have a finely tuned engine and know it, without needing to hear the same broken record over and over at 150 decibels.

Ohh and by the way your comparison is flawed, because I don't know of anyone that rides around with their exhaust facing them. They don't personally hear the majority of the sound they produce. If they did, I would have little ground to stand on.
they've never lived with or even heard the sounds of a couple of Holley 4 barrel carbs sucking in insane amounts of air along with gallons of juice feeding a big block 480 V8 then being vented by 6" unbaffled sidewinder exhausts.
Nor do I want to.
 
Guilty as charged. At least I can change the channel and want to hear all the noise I produce.
Loud exhaust and a well tuned engine is worlds apart. Anyone can have a finely tuned engine and know it, without needing to hear the same broken record over and over at 150 decibels.
Actually Cliff, I think the only one referring to straight pipes around here is you, and quite mistakenly at that.

The Lamborghini in the article certainly wasn't running straight pipes into collectors.

Besides, that wasn't a real car anyway. Real cars run on nitromethane and methanol, and you rebuild the engine every quarter mile or so....:p

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Ohh and by the way your comparison is flawed, because I don't know of anyone that rides around with their exhaust facing them. They don't personally hear the majority of the sound they produce. If they did, I would have little ground to stand on.
Well obviously. But when you're really addicted to the noise, sometimes it's nice to have one of your minions rev the engine for you, while you stand behind the car and admire the racket....:D
 
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Remember these are mostly kids commenting here, they've never lived with or even heard the sounds of a couple of Holley 4 barrel carbs sucking in insane amounts of air along with gallons of juice feeding a big block 480 V8 then being vented by 6" unbaffled sidewinder exhausts. It's not all that graceful but it is blood stirring, and expensive.
Which is exactly why I asked if he had the "Holeshot App", for his iPhone....
 
I'm not sure which year(s) of Chrysler starter you're indexing. I grew up with the gear reduction jobbies that sort of had an evil whine while crank-y-ing very slowly.
Sounds like the ones I'm used to. Early-mid 60's - the standard 1.5hp small frame model. The starters -even when brand new with a good battery sound like the battery is low on juice and slow cranking because of the 3.75:1 gearing ratio.
I'm going to have to ask you to be quiet now, I have to concentrate on texting my girlfriend for the 10th time this hour. Well, she's not really my girlfriend, she goes out with the quarterback, and I tutor her in math...:D
Don't worry she'll be right impressed when you text her the specifications of your phone!
 
Sounds like the ones I'm used to. Early-mid 60's - the standard 1.5hp small frame model. The starters -even when brand new with a good battery sound like the battery is low on juice and slow cranking because of the 3.75:1 gearing ratio.
At least that Charger redeems itself when it finally does start...:) I remember the old slant sixes where the pathos continues long after it fires up...:D

Don't worry she'll be right impressed when you text her the specifications of your phone!
Do you think? Gosh I sure hope so!
 
The reason the Tesla took off quicker than the Lambo is because the Lamborghini is 4WD.
If you guy's remember the drag race that top gear did with Veyron and the McLaren F1,TG showed the Veyron beating the F1 but there was story by Ron Dennis that it took quite a lot of attempts for TG to show that the Veyron was quicker.
To get off the line quickly in a 4wd you have to be quite violent which most people wouldn't do with a $400000 car.

I'd love to know why people are saying Lamborghini should be ashamed. There power levels are very similar and the Tesla should have more torque.

Still think the Tesla is a stupid car,I would wait till hydrogen becomes more main stream than use a car that needs battery's.

If you had an electric car here in South Africa you would need a home generator to charge the car since we can't rely on Eskom.
 
"Fraction of the cost" or not of a Lambo, you still need $100K+ to consider one, which puts it vastly out of the range of most mortals. (So does anyone really care how either of these cars drive?)
 
"Fraction of the cost" or not of a Lambo, you still need $100K+ to consider one, which puts it vastly out of the range of most mortals. (So does anyone really care how either of these cars drive?)

I hear the Model S handles itself well. The Aventador is a phenomenal machine on a track, but the transmission is terrible for city driving.

A more appropriate comparison would be with the S550, S600, or S63 AMG sedan. Raw straight-line performance would go to the Model S, but the S-Class range would outshine it in most other aspects.
 
The reason the Tesla took off quicker than the Lambo is because the Lamborghini is 4WD.

I'd love to know why people are saying Lamborghini should be ashamed. There power levels are very similar and the Tesla should have more torque.

Still think the Tesla is a stupid car,I would wait till hydrogen becomes more main stream than use a car that needs battery's.
The Tesla is 4WD too, the D stands for Dual and means there's a front and rear engine for 4WD.

People are saying the Lambo should be ashamed because of the expectation of an electric car, not really because the Tesla is cheaper or anything. Heck, if you want to get to 60 MPH in 3 seconds on the cheap, drop two wheels and get a sport bike.

Most people's experience with electric vehicles are either kids toys or golf carts. To have an electric car go toe-to-toe with a Lamborghini is like watching a high school student win a major league home-run derby using a tennis racket. It's completely not expected. Part of what Telsa wants people to know is that without a transmission, their cars deliver instant and full torque at any speed.

The Tesla might be stupid, or it might be a revolution. Without a regular engine and transmission it has a front AND rear trunk. Without a gasoline engine the ride is perfectly quiet (much to Davislane's dislike :) ) And without relying on Hydrogen to power it's electric motor it means you have your own refueling station in your garage instead of waiting for an infrastructure of stations to be built.

If the Model 3 turns out to have good range and only cost $35,000, it will be years before you'll be able to buy one without being on a waiting list.

And what if we finally get an improvement in battery tech and the 2019 Tesla gets 600 miles to a charge? We might be witnessing the greatest leap-frog in an industry since Blackberry lost the smartphone market to Apple. or not... we'll have to wait and see.
 
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I really would have thought cars would be faster than that in 2015. Zero to 60 in 3ish seconds. I remember back in 2002 if you had a $150,000. You could buy a lingenfelter corvette that would do 0-60 in just 1.9 seconds
 
People are saying the Lambo should be ashamed because of the expectation of an electric car, not really because the Tesla is cheaper or anything. Heck, if you want to get to 60 MPH in 3 seconds, drop two wheels and get one of these.
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Yes,get a coffin on wheels.

How would it matter if it's electric,it still has about the same horsepower.
The Tesla has +-864lb-ft of Torque while the Lambo "only" has 507lb-ft.
There are electric dragsters that can keep up with similarly powered petrol dragsters.
If the Tesla had the power of a M4 and won then yes,Lamborghini should be ashamed.

The Tesla is just a car,with two electric motors.

I would rather people put more effort into this,
 
Yes,get a coffin on wheels.

How would it matter if it's electric,it still has about the same horsepower.
The Tesla has +-864lb-ft of Torque while the Lambo "only" has 507lb-ft.
There are electric dragsters that can keep up with similarly powered petrol dragsters.
If the Tesla had the power of a M4 and won then yes,Lamborghini should be ashamed.

The Tesla is just a car,with two electric motors.
It's not remarkable only because it can keep up with a Lamborghini, it's remarkable because it's marketed as a family sedan. I doubt the phrase 'Family Sedan' is anywhere on Lamborghini's sales brochures.
When you buy a Lambo you pay through the nose for a ton of speed. When you buy a Tesla you pay far less for the highest tech car available that can seat your whole family, doesn't use gas, still have room for storage, oh, and by the way, is as fast as a Lamborghini.
Skip to 3:15 of this video, and you'll see 7 people getting out of this Tesla.

Granted, 3 are kids, but that's what makes the racing video noteworthy. Normally you have to pay a ton of money and sacrifice a lot of luxury to go 0-60 in 3 seconds, but with a Tesla that speed comes standard, on the P85D anyway.
 
The reason the Tesla took off quicker than the Lambo is because the Lamborghini is 4WD.
If you guy's remember the drag race that top gear did with Veyron and the McLaren F1,TG showed the Veyron beating the F1 but there was story by Ron Dennis that it took quite a lot of attempts for TG to show that the Veyron was quicker.
To get off the line quickly in a 4wd you have to be quite violent which most people wouldn't do with a $400000 car.

I'd love to know why people are saying Lamborghini should be ashamed. There power levels are very similar and the Tesla should have more torque.

Still think the Tesla is a stupid car,I would wait till hydrogen becomes more main stream than use a car that needs battery's.

If you had an electric car here in South Africa you would need a home generator to charge the car since we can't rely on Eskom.
Of course you can rely on Eskom (to let you down) but strangely the e-Toll gantries always seem to have an abundance of power along with Nkandla. You can always try the very popular and recommended alternative... illegal connections, millions of residents can't always be wrong.
 
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"Fraction of the cost" or not of a Lambo, you still need $100K+ to consider one, which puts it vastly out of the range of most mortals. (So does anyone really care how either of these cars drive?)
The real issue of ACTUAL price, is how badly Musk is jacking the price around. He's making the car cost what he wants you to think it costs.

Tesla motors has always operated at a loss, so the car might be worth as much as the Lambo he tested it against, but he'll sell it to you that cheap, to get his name in the paper.

As long as he can continue to convince his disciples, (AKA "stockholders"), that the "Rapture" will be along any day now, money is no object.
 
I've wanted to get the kid's too school very quickly.

As I have said it's not as fast as a Lamborghini,the Aventador has 0-100km\h time of 2.9seconds even the 458 they used in another video is only 0,2 seconds slower than the Tesla yet the video shows that the 458 doesn't stand a chance. They aren't doing proper starts in those cars,maybe even to please Musk.

I'm not disagreeing that it's a quick car,which it is,doesn't matter how it's propelled.
The guy's that did the comparison are like the *****'s on the internet asking if Driveclub is better than The Crew, yes they both are racing games but one is a circuit racer and the other is an open world mmo.
No one is going to think,lets see for a 0 -60 time my choice is either a Tesla that has no "soul" or a car that can only seat 2 and sounds like God crying when it's at full throttle.
 
No one is going to think,lets see for a 0 -60 time my choice is either a Tesla that has no "soul" or a car that can only seat 2 and sounds like God crying when it's at full throttle.
Hey, at least you know that the $100+K asking price for the Tesla is all down to engineering excellence rather than frills. Nothing says fulfilment like popping six figures on a car and soaking up the ambience of an interior worthy of a Japanese/Korean $15K people mover.

Is there a firmware update available for those seats?
 
Do you people have any idea how long I've been waiting for Elon Musk to harness the power of the electromagnet for the open road?

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Decades children, literally decades.....
 
No one is going to think,lets see for a 0 -60 time my choice is either a Tesla that has no "soul" or a car that can only seat 2 and sounds like God crying when it's at full throttle.
Hey, at least you know that the $100+K asking price for the Tesla is all down to engineering excellence rather than frills. Nothing says fulfilment like popping six figures on a car and soaking up the ambience of an interior worthy of a Japanese/Korean $15K people mover.

Is there a firmware update available for those seats?

at least we're done arguing about the speed....
 
And after doing a 0-60 run, the Tesla is effectively range nerfed.
Already taken into account. The entertainment console is to keep you occupied while the tow truck is en route.
If Elon Musk manages to arm twist the organizers of Le Mans to change from 24 hours to 24 seconds, the marques trading on exclusivity and attention to detail will have a lot to worry about.
 
Remember these are mostly kids commenting here, they've never lived with or even heard the sounds of a couple of Holley 4 barrel carbs sucking in insane amounts of air along with gallons of juice feeding a big block 480 V8 then being vented by 6" unbaffled sidewinder exhausts. It's not all that graceful but it is blood stirring, and expensive.

And I was soooo impressed with my dad's old Oldsmobile (another name they won't understand) with that impressive Rocket 440, who would have thought that a luxury car could take off like that! My dad's lawyer thanked me many, many times for finally buying myself a Dodge Charger with the four barrel ... to this day I don't understand how points on the license can magically disappear!!
 
*clears throat*

And after doing a 0-60 run, the Tesla is effectively range nerfed. The Lamborghini, on the other hand, still has plenty of effective range left.

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Yeah, but how far away do you think the kids' school could possibly be? And anyway, you'll get there so fast, you won't mind waiting for the tow truck. ;)
 
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