One of the most popular electric cars, the Tesla Model S is pretty fast but the quarter-mile drag race timings of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S electric car are out and it seems like the Porsche could be faster than Tesla after all.
First 1 4 Mile Drag Results: Porsche Taycan Faster Than A Tesla Model S
When I first saw the video I immediately thought that the Tesla acceleration numbers were wrong because so many Model S owners regular ran MUCH faster than Top Gear did. Several owner YouTube drag tests of the new Raven Model S Performance have clocked 0-60 in 2.4, 1/4 mile in 10.5 at 127 MPH both at the dragstrip and on the street. So a race between the most powerful Taycan and newest Model S would put them neck and neck and my bet is that the Tesla would win the 1/4 mile race, but just barely, with the Porsche catching up in the end.
Waston's drag race with Yianni seems to say otherwise. In their third run, the Aventador's tires were warm, if not scalding hot after two consecutive quarter-mile races. If the Model S' "no repeatable performance" myth was true, it should have yielded a much slower time than the first two runs.
The 996 Porsche 911 series was a new design with all- new body work, a reimagined interior, and the first water-cooled engine ever used in a 911. It broke with tradition in a big way. The 996 911 cars were introduced in early 1997 and had a 3.4 liter naturally aspirated flat-6 that produced 296 horsepower thanks to the introduction of its four-valve cylinder heads. The Porsche 911 Turbo debuted in 1999 and was the performance leaders in terms of the sprint to sixty and quarter mile. Perhaps most exciting though was the specialist performance 911s, with the GT3 our favorite. The car featured a stiffer, adjustable suspension platform as well as upgraded brakes. In 2002, the standard models of the type 996 underwent minor re-styling and were standardized on the 3.6- liter engine, which yielded gains of 15 horsepower to the naturally aspirated models.
The 991 Porsche 911 generation is by far the most interesting in our opinion. It started out with the usual improvements to the 911. An evolutionary design, the addition of additional technology, more fuel efficiency and a decent increase in performance across the range. Overall, the easiest 911 cars to live with and the most effective performance machines they had ever made. However, things changed a lot during the midlife refresh cycle for the 991 range when the updated Porsche 911 (991.2) introduced an all new, 3.0liter twin-turbocharged flat-six engines across the range. This was the first time the standard Carrera models had adopted turbocharged engines rather than naturally aspirated ones, which were initially criticized for lacking the engine sound that previous non-turbocharged variations had. This criticism quickly dissipated as it became apparent the 991.2 offered a substantial step up in performance and feel over the preceding models. You can see that fro 2016 onwards the vast range of 911 models is dipping into low 3 second 0-60 mph times and low 11 second quarter miles times, with the Turbo models destroying even those benchmark numbers. 2ff7e9595c
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