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That level of performance is mind boggling.

I can't think of a factory car running a sub 9 second quarter mile, and I can't think of a time I've seen a car run that time at a track then drive itself back home (and I spend a lot of friday nights at test-and-tunes), they are towed.

A 1:30 at Leguna Seca is also insane. That's Viper ACR / Ferrari 488 GTB / McLaren P1 levels of performance. I'd like to know who their test driver is, because if one of their engineers did that, then the performance is even more insane.

Vehicle range is also somewhere around 520 miles. That’s insane for an EV.

I was about to comment that, it seems pretty impressive, that alone makes it pretty compelling if it can actually achieve that in real world use. I'd love to see that kind of range trickle down to the lower priced vehicles, or even other manufacturers. A 200+ mile range Nissan leaf is pretty much instant buy for me.

It’s available:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/420126/nissan-leaf-plus-highwa...

But for $43k you could also get a Model 3 SR+...

There generally isn't any place that would allow you to run sub 10 second quarter miles without a roll bar and that was just lowered for the latest generation street cars. I believe they won't even give you a time if you exceed the safety limit.

https://www.racepagesdigital.com/ten-flat-nhra-adjusts-roll-...

German cars use to have a speed limit of 155mph and Porsche even sold factory rollbars for the GT series of cars (Not in US because of --Freedom-- laws). I sure hope Musk is considering safety with these ~5000 lbs rockets.

Im pretty sure with the weight distro being pretty much all at the bottom of the car its almost impossible to roll outside of an accident involving another car.

Apparently the frame is a monster too, so it might qualify there somehow.

See this video[1] for a demonstration of how hard it is to roll a tesla. In one of the tests it goes past 90 degrees before rolling back on its wheels.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24xzJkCGdk

> (...) they are towed.

For my understanding - do you mean that they're not road legal, or that they're not reliable enough for day-to-day off-track use?

They are road legal. In the US at least, road legal is a pretty low bar to clear.

But they usually have drag radials with skinny fronts, stripped interiors and high-stall torque converters. Which combine to make the car really hard to drive on the street.

It's still kinda unbelievable that the largest and most valued electric car maker in the world is naming their cars from scenes that elon thought was funny.[0] What a time to be alive.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWL8ejf2nM

Pop culture sells. I like it specifically because no marketing department would ever okay something like this.

Don't forget choosing model names to be S3XY... (Apparently Ford owns the rights to "Model E")

That's because Tesla are massively overvalued relative to what they will most likely achieve. Tesla are not the largest car manufacturer at all - Tesla's market cap is hugely bigger than ford's, but ford's yearly revenue is only a bit smaller than Tesla's market cap

The market knows better than you. They aren’t a car company, just like Apple isn’t a phone company.

Apple makes fucktons of money though. Tesla's PE is 1039 as of today, Apple's is 34.

Tesla has thousands of vehicles out on the road collecting data to train it's self driving features. Nobody else has this.

Yes, that's why Pets.com is such a powerhouse.

Companies are valued based on what people think they will do in the future. And many people think Tesla will cause a revolution in the car industry developing the technology to eliminate combustion engine vehicles from the roads. As they mentioned today, if they achieve what they're aiming for in the next ~3 years, electric vehicles will be cheaper in total cost of ownership than combustion engine vehicles.

I thought under 2s is impossible for street compounds?

Still, good numbers. Wouldn’t buy one anyway. I like sound.

Hey just install a growling speaker for sound and you're good to go. That's what they do on the pickup trucks.

It's got plenty of sound, just different sound. Personally, I like to be able to talk when I'm setting world record laps and be able to drive the car home afterwards.

You can just creep under it but it’s close to the limit (unless you add cold gas thrusters of course). Engineering explained has a couple of really good videos covering the physics and math. Here’s one about how the new roadster can possibly achieve 1.9 seconds. https://youtu.be/9Uca_jNh2M4 https://youtu.be/4PRi4B1APj0

Checks calendar ... right.

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