@@zolavib1187 oh I meant the Tesla only have to replace the tires. Don't use the breaks the car stop anyway. No transmission, no oil. We pay zero to charge the cars. I had to sell the mustang it was bittersweet.
@@zolavib1187brakes almost never because of regenerative braking (my previous EV had 40,000 miles and like 10% brake pad wear), a small amount of gearbox oil (doesn't have a transmission) and brake fluid at 150K miles. They only thing EV's need on a regular basis is tires, wiper blades and windshield fluid.
What happens when the batteries go bad it stay losing their range. Buy a cell phone the battery lasts 2 days, 6 mts. later you have to charge twice a day. Batteries suffer with every discharge/charge cycle. Blow a gas motor, replace for 5k. Blow your batteries who's putting in 20k into a 6+ year old vehicle? What happens to all the old EV's? They will become worthless because of battery replacement costs. Not to mention millions of mechanics out of a job and millions of diyers that can't afford to pay for maintenance or issues. Friend had his Tesla totaled for a small fender bender because they said it potentially caused damage to the battery. Auto insurance only covered him for a portion of the purchase price, want his fault, rear-ended. Corporate greed is the only one winning. Trying to get control of everyone by switching to electric meanwhile city council is telling me to limit ac usage during 100° days because the grid cannot handle it. Wtf? What am I missing?
@@juiced66lac first EV batteries don't "go bad" like disposable AA's or laptop batteries after 5 years. EV batteries are thermally controlled and normally last the lifetime of the car of 300,000 to 400,000 miles with only a small loss of range. Second, the battery systems of EV's are modular and can be reconditioned or repaired component by component if ever needed. If the battery control module detects a fault in module 5 for example, the module is taken offline and can be replaced for $600-$1200. Third, they can be recycled.
@@Bricklinsv1970 I'm not sure what you mean. From X speed to Y speed for any value of X and Y is going to our stock dual motor non performance Tesla with instant torque and no transmission vs any drive off the lot ICE. Drive one and you will be amazed and understand why combusting Dino Juice is no longer the best way to convert potential energy to motion. Respectfully, until that time, you have no data or frame of reference to support your opinion.
@@geffphishnutz7140 Most Tesla Plaid race drivers that I know usually give most other cars the hit (the Tesla doesn't launch until they do) - they don't even look at the light, just the other car (it's usually good for a .4 to .5 second head start).
@terrybertrand7159 actually a good strategy... never thought of it. Won't ever be flagged for an early start, and you know you're going to crush them down the track, so no reason to try to trigger off of the Christmas tree.
@@themarathoncontinues2289 - Consider as well that the Tesla can drag race 15 times a day, 365 days a year, nonstop for several years and never need to open the hood. LOL, you'd be lucky to get that Dodge through one weekend of racing without having to get under the hood or under the car to repair or replace something very expensive. You can make an ICE fast or you can make it last but not both. A 9 second or faster ICE will require a team with at least one full time mechanic and an owner with very deep pockets.
The Plaid won easily and that was with groceries and kids in tow 😂 Just wait until the four motor Plaid is ready…. 2024 and 1400HP. The Model 3 and Model Y are both getting 3-motor versions with +650HP, but may not arrive until 2025.
@@MichaelKingsfordGrayit's just newer technology, power delivery via electricity is much master that pumping pistons. EVs are still at the early stages of development now, can you imagine in 10 years from now when they also have lighter solid state batteries
@@ClarionCawwyes electricity is a better.. way to produce energy than an ice but if you are going to sit here and tell me educated person to educated person that we can get the energy density and safety of fuel into a battery - you need some more information bud lol. Currently known physics can't produce it cost effectively. And that's with all the money thrown at the research grants 😉
Heard at the horse races in 1908: “you know these automobiles go fast and all but they’ll never catch on just because of the SOUND. They will never have the clippety clop!!”
Differences is, more people liked the car sounds. Silence is BY NATURE boring for humans. If you want to be entertained and feel excitement, you dont go to a tai chi session, you go to nascar or a concert.
So true. There was a powerful movement against the adoption of gasoline (ICE) vehicles. In the earliest days they were unreliable, very hard to start, hard to find places to refuel them, very expensive and often referred to as toys for rich kids (sound familiar?). The gasoline vehicle was a serious threat to several large and well-established industries like veterinarian services, feed, grain and hay providers, blacksmiths, leather goods industry, buggy and cart makers, etc... These industries went to war with the internal combustion engine which they often referred to as "that infernal gasoline engine". Despite the fact that they were noisy, smelly and generally filthy machines, gasoline vehicles were cleaner than employing beasts of burden. Americans, especially those living in cities or towns, have largely forgotten what it was like to have their locations visited each day by hundreds, if not thousands of horses and or oxen. They've forgotten the literal TONS of manure that had to be removed from city streets and moved to collection areas. They've forgotten the fecal matter and 10's of thousands of gallons of animal urine that collected in storm drains creating breeding grounds for infectious diseases like Cholera, Hepatitis and Dysentery among others. They've forgotten the pervasive stench associated with using beasts of burden especially the corpses of those animals that died everyday. Now it's the internal combustion engines turn to come under the microscope and take its turn in the proverbial barrel.
I have a Tesla Y and a Camaro 1SS. I enjoy both for different reasons. Camaro is a 6 speed manual transmission. People sleep on Teslas until they are sitting behind one. 😂
A client of mine took me for a spin in his Plaid today, it was a mind bending experience. I’ve been in plenty of fast cars but this was something else, it was like being electrocuted (in kind of a good way) vision went blurry, frozen in place, it didn’t make sense lol. Afterwards I felt like I just got in a fight my adrenaline was pumping. Unreal experience
My first drag strip-type launch in a 2015 Model S P90D with Ludicrous Mode made me dizzy. All the blood in my skull slammed into the back of my head. Focusing on steering was a problem. The Plaid is even worse. 🤣
I wish I could post a pic here. A Plaid owner sent me a photo of one of his mechanics falling out of the right front seat. Guy owns an auto shop. Anyhow, he bought a '21 MS Plaid and took an employee for an acceleration run. When they pulled back into the shop, the poor mechanic opened the door and literally fell out onto the concrete floor, legs inside, body on the floor, on his back. He told me whenever he drives the Plaid to work, that mechanic gives him the single-digit salute. LOL
We all know teslas are fast, but they're also piles of crap when it comes to reliability/problems. They are not good cars. They may be kinda cool and pretty damn fast, but still junk
@@jacksmith2315No. I've owned two Teslas and furthermore, I can't stand Elon. I really want a different manufacturer to make a better electric vehicle than Tesla does. That said, I did not have major issues with either of my Tesla vehicles.
@@jacksmith2315Where did you get that from? Something you read online but never experienced? We have two Teslas. One has 50,000 miles on it. The other has 40k. Neither have ever had any issues whatsoever. They've never been in that shop at all (not even for oil changes, hahaha). They've been flawless.
That was an as kicking of biblical proportions. And that was a strip-modified hellcat, mind u! Imagine what thrashing a stock hellcat would've gotten?!
I bought my Model S Plaid in Oct. '21, a few months after they came out. So I took it to Willow Springs International Raceway for drags night on their 1,000-foot strip. At one point I was against a Hellcat Challenger. Light turned green, I released the brake and I immediately buried the guy. In the shutdown area, he indicated he wanted to talk, so we went into the pit. He came over, with helmet in hand, and asked: "What kind of Tesla IS this?" He hadn't heard about the Plaid. The Plaids are pure lunacy. I'm 77, and this is a bucket list thing for me. This is the kind of car I wanted when I was 16 but dad said: "ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY? NO!!!" So much for daddy. 🤣
@@tylerc.6347 JJ is just a BS name I use mostly for a Google Voice account. I'm just too lazy to logout of JJ and log back in with this name: Michael McKown, car is Pippi Plaidstocking. I do have my own YT channel: Mike's Tesla Model S Plaid Drag Racing Channel. Check it out. New 40-minute video, racing at Willow Springs.
@dukeljk2191 ?? Not sure where Electric uses a ton of oil? Are you talking about burning it to make electricity? If so... there are much cleaner ways to do so. Check out the sources of electricity for Ontario, where the majority of Canadians live... Electricity Mix Nuclear Energy 55.3% Water Power 23.3% Natural Gas 8.1% Wind 9.0% Solar PV 2.5% We even call it "hydro" here because historically that is primarily how it was generated
My preference is "Don't You Want Somebody To Love?" (Jefferson Airplane) and "Waterloo" by ABBA. But the cameras pick up the music, then I have copyright problems with TH-cam. LOL
I tweeted Elon Musk and told him if you're gonna name that launch stance after a cat, you need to add a butt wiggle, which could be programmed into the air suspension. Got no reply. 😪 Bummer.
@@thicniggazinc me either sound like the most boring shit ever, I went to a smaller drag race, less horsepower and less cars, before me and me friend left (we where still in grade school) we decided to stand as close as we could to the 2000 horsepower cars as we could and see how it sounded, it was a-fuckin-mazin, but you also can’t put 2000 in a Tesla, no room for upgrades and if you upgrade a demon a good bit, it’ll probably beat a model s plaid which is the fastest 1/4 mile at 8.74 but the demon can do 8.91 bone stock
What's most impressive to me about this is that the race WASN'T decided in the 60ft. The Plaid's party piece is its ability to boogie out of the hole compared to other cars, but this built Hellcat on the prepped surface had that sorted as well. So this victory from the Plaid was a matter of sheer, top-end horsepower. That used to be a weakness of EVs - obviously not anymore. Outrageous.
You did notice that the Tesla had to wait for the Hellcat to go first because they are racing to see who can get the best average time, not who is the quickest off the light. Because if that was the case, The Plaid would win every time by at least 3 to 4 car lengths
They'll flick their cigarettes at you, nearly cause a head on trying to beat me at a green, try to roll coal, spit, yell and act like the smooth brains they are. These people are knuckle dragging morons.
It often cannot be understood, until it is experienced. Their head is thrown back, and stays back until I let up on the accelerator (or until my wife screams SLOW DOWN!)
You know dude was all in his feelings when he got out 1st and got passed like the paper weight on the teachers desk and the 2nd race said the hell with it half way down the track
Makes me feel good as an American to see an American owned and built vehicle smoke a Fiat product. ‘Please consult with your doctor to see if Stellantis is right for you.”
Plaid is just a normal but well designed for everyday driving, nothing too sporty, fancy, or loudy, yet can easily be the fastest car on earth. I'm not a fan of ev, but respect must be given when it's due.
What respect? They're a cheat code on drag strips. Combustion vs instant electromagnetic acceleration. Fire vs lighting. That isn't fun to watch and it's definitely not what we as spectators want to experience. We want engineering. Tuning. The noises petrol engines produce. All the factors that make a race an actual race. Not putting electric coils together powered by a huge battery and hitting the gas. Dude in the Tesla could have taken a nap. Where's the fun in that?
Gas guy here, but we've known for years EVs are a better method in every respect. Plus the Tesla has all wheel drive so there is minimal wheelie-rock, that and the computer pre-dialed for this exact race type. EVs really are better in everyway. Oh except for that V8 roar.
NOOOO it's bad enough the women who have tesla cars and suvs we don't need more. They always speed up super quick so you can't pass then when you catch up to them they slow down and it's a constant up and down and it drives me insane. They're giving way too many idiots too much torque
Lol. The Tesla equivalent to a minivan outperforming everyone's dodge example or scat or ghoul or demon or whatever. Scat owner : I was outran badly by a Tesla minivan at the track. 🤣😂
Fine for a short track. On a longer run the Tesla falls flat on its face. And after a few runs that Tesla wouldn’t be even close to catching that Hellcat.
@adrianscarlett didn't say anything about the vehicle. If you had a clue you would have realized that most folks can not handle these cars especially on the launch.
@@sad754ytWhen I worked time slips at the drag strip I'd have to lecture these guys about going too fast all the time. Some of them would laugh and ignore me thinking it's a joke so I'd pull their wrsitbands. Don't get mad at me buddy take it up with the tower. You don't have a roll cage, you're dead going that fast.
@@EleTruk I drag race at Willow Springs in my Plaid. A track official actually asked me to stay at the starting line until the other guy is far enough down the 1,000-foot strip, so when I go it will be close at the finish. I normally do that now ... unless my opponent shows up on a trailer and has wheelie bars, or unless my opponent is another Plaid, in which case I go full out on the green. Exception to the trailer thing: I shoot a lot of video from the starting line and keep an eye on the starter's laptop. If I know the trailered car is slower, I'll give him the hit when I leave the starting line and take my turn. :)
Tesla's quality issues are primarily with cosmetic items, such as paint imperfections, poorly fitting body panels, and squeaks and rattles (which are more noticeable because the cabin is so quiet!) - rather than core powertrain or infotainment functions.
Sad watching people try to make expensive ICE vehicles do what they really aren't designed to do. Making a high-performance ICE vehicle "hook-up" like that will never be conducive to long life. A nine second or faster ICE vehicle has to push huge torque and Hp numbers through a drivetrain that includes a multi-speed transmission and differential. The design of which will never be as robust as that of an EV especially in a production car. To keep a nine second or faster ICE vehicle track ready every week will require a team of mechanics and an owner with deep pockets. That Tesla can drag race 15 times everyday, 365 days a year for several years and never need to open the hood. LOL, you'd be lucky to get through one weekend of drag racing with a high-performance ICE without needing to repair or replace something expensive. You'd spend more time under the hood than you would behind the wheel.
@@Tron-Jockey Okay, let's look at the Tesla then. You need 100k for a Plaid, then at least 3k for a charger in your garage. And Pete forbid something break, then you'd need to replace that part at a specialized repair shop, where with an ICE, you just roll into the mechanic. Far more expensive to repair an EV. Not to mention battery replacements and tires because they weigh a lot more. ICE vehicles have been racing and pushing their limits longer than you've been pooping on this earth, so I would say they definitely are designed to go fast.
@@dirtbagliberalsnake5729 or just a slightly built demon, idk if you could tell it any kind of super or turbo charger on a Tesla, and ik a demon has a supercharger, you can still put on different tires, lighter rims, cut out some other things that weigh a good amount
So I pulled into a CVS one day. Two guys in a nearby car said: "Is a Tesla faster than a Hellcat?" I said, "With over a thousand HP, sure." WHAT? they said. "You guys wanna go for a ride around the block?" I took care of my business in CVS and told them to get in. And we went around the block in my 2021 Model S Plaid. I live in the SoCali desert, and shortly we were in the semi-boondocks, moving at 35 mph. Then I floored it, and they shot backwards. They were shouting at me to slow down. In 2 or 3 seconds I was at 85 mph. I looked over at them and said: "Yeah. Faster than a Hellcat."
"It's all sound and fury, signifying nothing"...sad. I used to, and still occasionally do, build ICE cars. It was a big part of my growing up, but the power of EVs is undeniably superior. All that said, people still watch horse racing, so motorsports is unlikely to ever die out
Its almost dumb that most of these gas cars even try racing these teslas. All of the power in electric cars goes straight from the batteries to the wheels which makes it pretty difficult for any gas car to beat becauseof all the mechanical parts in a gas car to get the power from engine to wheels.
That wasn't the plaid, it was just a model S, the plaid has a wing in the back and a thicker hood, the plaid is much much faster with an option of insane acceleration and lowering cheetah stance
Ehhh, sorry, that is wrong. It is the Plaid. The other option is the Long Range, and it won't do a quarter mile in the 9s. No big wing comes stock, the hoods are the same, and I'm sure that blue Tesla has the Plaid badge on the back.
The stock Plaid brakes suck. I replaced my rotors with Mountain Pass Performance versions and the pads with track/street versions from Unplugged Performance.
@@trythis2821 Purple hat, cooling vanes. That looks like the Easy Big Fella setup from Mountain Pass Performance, which I also have. I have the stock calipers with street/track pads from Unplugged Performance. Additionally, I had the front brake dust covers cut off -- they interfere with heat dissipation, which MPP proved. Works very well on the drag strip, much better than stock. At Willow Springs where I race, the shutdown area is very short so I stomp the brakes. You still get the brake overheat warning after a couple runs in close succession, but that's not based on measured temperature. The car makes a calculation, which is wrong for my brake setup. So I ignore it. By the way, my name is Michael McKown, car's name is Pippi Plaidstocking. I was just too damn lazy to change my Google account in answering. 🤣
@@trythis2821 I tried answering earlier but I don't see my comment. All right, it looks like the brakes are the Easy Big Fellas from Mountain Pass Performance. Air vanes and the purple hat. I have the same setup on mine. I still have the stock calipers (now painted red) but the pads are street/track from Unplugged Performance, along with stainless brake lines and upgraded brake fluid. I also had the front dust covers cut off. MPP proved they retain heat. If I run 2 or 3 times in quick succession, I still get a brake overheat warning, but that doesn't come from actual temperature measurement; it's a calculation the car makes, and it doesn't apply to upgraded brakes, so I ignore it. Looks to me like that Tesla is also running Martian forged wheels. BTW, Julian Jacoby is a BS name I use mostly for my Google Voice account. I'm just too lazy to change account names when answering here. Real name is Michael McKown and my car is: Pippi Plaidstocking. I have my own racing channel, check it out. Latest video is 40 minutes of fun at Willow Springs International Raceway. It is: mike's tesla model s plaid drag racing channel. Merry Christmas! 😎
This feels like when you see a huge WWE wrestler dude go against some "average" looking BJJ fighter in MMA. Those tires on the Hellcat are certainly intimidating and the roar of that engine is really impressive.
It's all sound and fury, signifying nothing. Clip clop of horses gave way to sound of gasoline motors, It's now time to realize that "sound" generate from those motors signifies a waste of "energy", and that the next generation is electric. As you can see from the comments... there will be those that will fight for what they've grown comfortable with... just like our parents fought against email and the internet and netflix and youtube ;) It's always fun to have a front seat to change!
The tesla plaid is the best for sure for many years to come in every way !!! Very practical slick and superb in performance etc.. Sad to see some many jealous tesla haters out there man!!:(!!
Well, let's even things a little. "Plus 1" additional Tesla Fan! Those PLAIDs are awesome!! Rented 1 on Turo. "Love at 1st swipe!" Gotta have one. Runs 0-60 in 2.3, and ¼ mile in 9.44! Maybe faster. Drives around the burnout box and on street tires and runs 9s!! Even the haters got to admit that is Awesome!!
This reminds me of an air show I went to. They had a P51D Spitfire next to a 737-800. Ya the Boeing was a faster craft, and it was all but ignored by the fans, but what a crowd around that P51.
Should compare fighter to fighter. P51D next to F15, F16, F18, or Stealth. I've been to static displays and walked around all of them. Admired the great feats of engineering... for their times... but time does march on. What was best, is now no longer.
See the thing with electric is full power no matter what speed you are at. No power band think of it as a off on switch. Switch it on full HP the gas motors have to spin up and get into the power.
It is a paradigm shift that people need to experience to fully appreciate. No "torque curve" requiring gears to maximize power through the drive train as internal engine / transmissions have. EV has a consistent torque across all speeds. And the only noise is from the tires on the road, so I can have my tunes cranked. ;)
At Willow Springs one day at the drags, I was wearing my Tesla Plaid T-shirt. An older fella came up to me and said, "I guess we know who will win today." I replied: "Don't worry, I won't take it out of first gear." 🤣
The amazing thing is all these people bashing Tesla will probably turn around and tell you that they are true patriotic Americans without even stopping to think and realize that Tesla is the most American-made car in the world not made in Mexico or Canada or Europe or South America like other so-called American brands. They hire over 700,000 Americans and pay them way more money than the other American brands. It's American Ingenuity and Innovation and brains that came up with this amazing machine and Tesla is taking over the future of automotive transportation despite the decade lead that China has. As far as I'm concerned go Tesla go America and the rest of these yahoos can go away
Not quite. Highest percentage of American made parts and built in the USA, true. The number of Tesla employees is 127,800, not far removed from GM's total. And apparently UAW-union employees make more than most Tesla employees do.
@@WesternEagle467 My first Tesla Model S was a 2015 P90DL, the L meaning Ludicrous Mode, the predecessor to Plaid. That thing launched violently. I mean, the blood in your brain slammed into the rear of your skull. Acceleration dropped off fairly quickly, tho. I believe Tesla dialed down the violence of the launch a bit with the Plaid.
Love them or hate them those things are stupid fast. Rode in a P100D once for a 0-100 run and it’s literally like one of those roller coasters lethargy launch you out of the gate at high speed… Can barely even lean forward in the seat
Elon Musk was talking to someone years ago. Guy was talking about one of the less expensive Teslas, which he described as "the slow one." Musk shot back: "There are no slow Teslas."
I race mine on a 1,000 foot strip. On drag radials, I can get to the end in 7.85 seconds at 135 mph. Using a Dragy on that same strip but starting further back, I've done the quarter in 9.5 seconds, but by then I'm slowing down. Where I race is a road course and there's a sharp left turn near the end of the "drag strip" shut down area. I have to shave speed quickly or probably crash. Without need of slowing, I could probably turn 9.2-ish to 9.3-ish.
Imagine not knowing that a teslas battery being made makes the same amount off pollution that the gas car makes in 6 years, and by the time it’s been 5-6 years it needs replaced
My daughter just bought a new Plaid. I’ll see it for the first time tomorrow. You think she’ll let her daddy drive it? Lol She finally got a car that will beat her husband’s Porsche 911.
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Dude in Tesla was probably casually sipping a coffee 😂
Or an espresso 😂
He knew what was coming 😂
On gawd he was 😂
😅😅😅
@@Mytrice12y'all ain't right.😂😂😂 He was though
As a tesla owner and former mustang own. They are both awesome to drive but instant torque with zero to low maintenance is very hard to beat.
Definitely not zero maintenance. Oil, brakes, brake fluid, transmission, tires ect. It's definitely low though
@@zolavib1187 oh I meant the Tesla only have to replace the tires. Don't use the breaks the car stop anyway. No transmission, no oil. We pay zero to charge the cars. I had to sell the mustang it was bittersweet.
@@zolavib1187brakes almost never because of regenerative braking (my previous EV had 40,000 miles and like 10% brake pad wear), a small amount of gearbox oil (doesn't have a transmission) and brake fluid at 150K miles. They only thing EV's need on a regular basis is tires, wiper blades and windshield fluid.
What happens when the batteries go bad it stay losing their range. Buy a cell phone the battery lasts 2 days, 6 mts. later you have to charge twice a day. Batteries suffer with every discharge/charge cycle. Blow a gas motor, replace for 5k. Blow your batteries who's putting in 20k into a 6+ year old vehicle? What happens to all the old EV's? They will become worthless because of battery replacement costs. Not to mention millions of mechanics out of a job and millions of diyers that can't afford to pay for maintenance or issues. Friend had his Tesla totaled for a small fender bender because they said it potentially caused damage to the battery. Auto insurance only covered him for a portion of the purchase price, want his fault, rear-ended. Corporate greed is the only one winning. Trying to get control of everyone by switching to electric meanwhile city council is telling me to limit ac usage during 100° days because the grid cannot handle it. Wtf? What am I missing?
@@juiced66lac first EV batteries don't "go bad" like disposable AA's or laptop batteries after 5 years. EV batteries are thermally controlled and normally last the lifetime of the car of 300,000 to 400,000 miles with only a small loss of range. Second, the battery systems of EV's are modular and can be reconditioned or repaired component by component if ever needed. If the battery control module detects a fault in module 5 for example, the module is taken offline and can be replaced for $600-$1200. Third, they can be recycled.
Making all that noise, just to get absolutely destroyed 😳
mustang owners in a nutshell
Not out on the highway.
'Absolutely destroyed' less than half a second difference😂 stfu
@@Bricklinsv1970 What does this mean?
@@Bricklinsv1970 I'm not sure what you mean. From X speed to Y speed for any value of X and Y is going to our stock dual motor non performance Tesla with instant torque and no transmission vs any drive off the lot ICE.
Drive one and you will be amazed and understand why combusting Dino Juice is no longer the best way to convert potential energy to motion.
Respectfully, until that time, you have no data or frame of reference to support your opinion.
One’s running on fire, the other’s running on lightning.
What did you expect?
Good description!
Technically they both run on energy.
Tesla also gave him a headstart💀
that dont matter though. tesla driver shouldve paid more attention to the light
@@geffphishnutz7140 Most Tesla Plaid race drivers that I know usually give most other cars the hit (the Tesla doesn't launch until they do) - they don't even look at the light, just the other car (it's usually good for a .4 to .5 second head start).
@terrybertrand7159 actually a good strategy... never thought of it. Won't ever be flagged for an early start, and you know you're going to crush them down the track, so no reason to try to trigger off of the Christmas tree.
@@terrybertrand7159 lol he’s not running a good enough et to play games with a car like that
😂 ur seriously happy about a rc car racing?! 😂 it's not even a real car! 😂
Usually, the most dangerous are the quiet ones.
😂😂😂
US School moment
That doesn’t apply to demonology, he gaps teslas for a living
@@themarathoncontinues2289 - Consider as well that the Tesla can drag race 15 times a day, 365 days a year, nonstop for several years and never need to open the hood. LOL, you'd be lucky to get that Dodge through one weekend of racing without having to get under the hood or under the car to repair or replace something very expensive. You can make an ICE fast or you can make it last but not both. A 9 second or faster ICE will require a team with at least one full time mechanic and an owner with very deep pockets.
@@Tron-Jockeythe dodge needs to be repaired to keep performing, tesla can run laps all day
The Plaid won easily and that was with groceries and kids in tow 😂
Just wait until the four motor Plaid is ready…. 2024 and 1400HP. The Model 3 and Model Y are both getting
3-motor versions with +650HP, but may not arrive until 2025.
"Mom, why is the driver of that very loud car behind us appear to be screaming with no one else in the car?"
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It's junk give it a few
I'm a petrol head, but that power is just ....dammmmmm.
Torque about power!
@@MichaelKingsfordGray 😜
@@MichaelKingsfordGrayit's just newer technology, power delivery via electricity is much master that pumping pistons. EVs are still at the early stages of development now, can you imagine in 10 years from now when they also have lighter solid state batteries
@@ClarionCawwlololol ohhhh ok.
@@ClarionCawwyes electricity is a better.. way to produce energy than an ice but if you are going to sit here and tell me educated person to educated person that we can get the energy density and safety of fuel into a battery - you need some more information bud lol. Currently known physics can't produce it cost effectively. And that's with all the money thrown at the research grants 😉
Best part is that plaid just drives off the track and drives home. Those other guys have to check fluids and swap out wheels
Lmao
Stop to get groceries first... 😉
Not if it needs to charge its battery
@@themarathoncontinues2289every year charging times go down several minutes.
@@alphamarz333 why is that?
Heard at the horse races in 1908: “you know these automobiles go fast and all but they’ll never catch on just because of the SOUND. They will never have the clippety clop!!”
😂😂😂
Exactly!
Differences is, more people liked the car sounds. Silence is BY NATURE boring for humans. If you want to be entertained and feel excitement, you dont go to a tai chi session, you go to nascar or a concert.
@@EBG...not a soul on earth with a fully functioning brain is going to NASCAR for entertainment lmao
I have lost half of my hearing do to going to rock concerts and being a gear head most of my 60 years so maybe this is a good thing
So true. There was a powerful movement against the adoption of gasoline (ICE) vehicles. In the earliest days they were unreliable, very hard to start, hard to find places to refuel them, very expensive and often referred to as toys for rich kids (sound familiar?). The gasoline vehicle was a serious threat to several large and well-established industries like veterinarian services, feed, grain and hay providers, blacksmiths, leather goods industry, buggy and cart makers, etc... These industries went to war with the internal combustion engine which they often referred to as "that infernal gasoline engine". Despite the fact that they were noisy, smelly and generally filthy machines, gasoline vehicles were cleaner than employing beasts of burden. Americans, especially those living in cities or towns, have largely forgotten what it was like to have their locations visited each day by hundreds, if not thousands of horses and or oxen. They've forgotten the literal TONS of manure that had to be removed from city streets and moved to collection areas. They've forgotten the fecal matter and 10's of thousands of gallons of animal urine that collected in storm drains creating breeding grounds for infectious diseases like Cholera, Hepatitis and Dysentery among others. They've forgotten the pervasive stench associated with using beasts of burden especially the corpses of those animals that died everyday.
Now it's the internal combustion engines turn to come under the microscope and take its turn in the proverbial barrel.
All that mods on the kittycat and still walked on😂
I have a Tesla Y and a Camaro 1SS. I enjoy both for different reasons. Camaro is a 6 speed manual transmission. People sleep on Teslas until they are sitting behind one. 😂
A client of mine took me for a spin in his Plaid today, it was a mind bending experience. I’ve been in plenty of fast cars but this was something else, it was like being electrocuted (in kind of a good way) vision went blurry, frozen in place, it didn’t make sense lol. Afterwards I felt like I just got in a fight my adrenaline was pumping. Unreal experience
Same thing happened to me when I was a passenger in a P100D in Ludicrous mode. When launching, I had the same blurred vision.
My first drag strip-type launch in a 2015 Model S P90D with Ludicrous Mode made me dizzy. All the blood in my skull slammed into the back of my head. Focusing on steering was a problem. The Plaid is even worse. 🤣
I wish I could post a pic here. A Plaid owner sent me a photo of one of his mechanics falling out of the right front seat. Guy owns an auto shop. Anyhow, he bought a '21 MS Plaid and took an employee for an acceleration run. When they pulled back into the shop, the poor mechanic opened the door and literally fell out onto the concrete floor, legs inside, body on the floor, on his back. He told me whenever he drives the Plaid to work, that mechanic gives him the single-digit salute. LOL
Love the sense of humour at Tesla: fastest model? Let's call it "plaid" (SpaceBalls movie reference)
Changing the world, and having fun doing it.
@@kenlowe-ca And as far as I know, Mel Brooks hasn't said a word about it.
Didn’t even have to watch to know the result…
The Hellcat hooked up (which is rare for this channel) and it actually did pretty good.
We all know teslas are fast, but they're also piles of crap when it comes to reliability/problems. They are not good cars. They may be kinda cool and pretty damn fast, but still junk
@@jacksmith2315No. I've owned two Teslas and furthermore, I can't stand Elon. I really want a different manufacturer to make a better electric vehicle than Tesla does. That said, I did not have major issues with either of my Tesla vehicles.
@@jacksmith2315in 5 years in not one issue, don't guess when you don't own shit
@@jacksmith2315Where did you get that from? Something you read online but never experienced? We have two Teslas. One has 50,000 miles on it. The other has 40k. Neither have ever had any issues whatsoever. They've never been in that shop at all (not even for oil changes, hahaha). They've been flawless.
That was an as kicking of biblical proportions. And that was a strip-modified hellcat, mind u! Imagine what thrashing a stock hellcat would've gotten?!
I bought my Model S Plaid in Oct. '21, a few months after they came out. So I took it to Willow Springs International Raceway for drags night on their 1,000-foot strip. At one point I was against a Hellcat Challenger. Light turned green, I released the brake and I immediately buried the guy. In the shutdown area, he indicated he wanted to talk, so we went into the pit. He came over, with helmet in hand, and asked: "What kind of Tesla IS this?" He hadn't heard about the Plaid. The Plaids are pure lunacy. I'm 77, and this is a bucket list thing for me. This is the kind of car I wanted when I was 16 but dad said: "ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY? NO!!!" So much for daddy. 🤣
@@julianjacoby8668you’re a legend
@@tylerc.6347 JJ is just a BS name I use mostly for a Google Voice account. I'm just too lazy to logout of JJ and log back in with this name: Michael McKown, car is Pippi Plaidstocking. I do have my own YT channel: Mike's Tesla Model S Plaid Drag Racing Channel. Check it out. New 40-minute video, racing at Willow Springs.
Knew that was going to happen. The plaid is insane. There instant power.
Literally doesn't need to combust anything
Even our dual model 3 without performance upgrades is 0-60 in 4 seconds and the quarter mile in 12.5 seconds.
@gaudyliquid2352 electric use a ton of oil.
@dukeljk2191 ?? Not sure where Electric uses a ton of oil? Are you talking about burning it to make electricity? If so... there are much cleaner ways to do so. Check out the sources of electricity for Ontario, where the majority of Canadians live...
Electricity Mix
Nuclear Energy 55.3%
Water Power 23.3%
Natural Gas 8.1%
Wind 9.0%
Solar PV 2.5%
We even call it "hydro" here because historically that is primarily how it was generated
55% Nuclear power is super good. I heard there’s no byproduct or hazards with nuclear. It’s so clean!
That Old-school Nova was moving tho
@@danieltaylor4849 you can take the police car to the track huh....
I'll take that nova any day
@@turdjohnson1688 yes sir🤙
@PhillyDee215 From inside the Tesla, it seemed like the Nova was standing still.
😉 I'm just having fun... It's not meant to start a flame war!!
@@kenlowe-ca i feel u bro...I wanna get my Cadillac CTS-V3 out there
"Muscle cars" getting beat by a family sedan grocery getter! RIP to the ICE!! 😅
The cat driving the Tesla pulled up with a Starbucks Iced Coffee listening to Dave Mathew’s Band.
My preference is "Don't You Want Somebody To Love?" (Jefferson Airplane) and "Waterloo" by ABBA. But the cameras pick up the music, then I have copyright problems with TH-cam. LOL
Love watching the Plaid lower it’s nose into cheetah stance before launching.
I tweeted Elon Musk and told him if you're gonna name that launch stance after a cat, you need to add a butt wiggle, which could be programmed into the air suspension. Got no reply. 😪 Bummer.
Just imagine drag racing with all electric cars. No noise, and no burnouts.
I wouldn't want to watch ngl
@@thicniggazinc me either sound like the most boring shit ever, I went to a smaller drag race, less horsepower and less cars, before me and me friend left (we where still in grade school) we decided to stand as close as we could to the 2000 horsepower cars as we could and see how it sounded, it was a-fuckin-mazin, but you also can’t put 2000 in a Tesla, no room for upgrades and if you upgrade a demon a good bit, it’ll probably beat a model s plaid which is the fastest 1/4 mile at 8.74 but the demon can do 8.91 bone stock
(Tesla, 1020 stock, demon, 840 stock
It's all about the feel for whomever is inside the cabin, the instant g force is alien.. even in my model 3 performance
@@ne0nZchr0me 4000 horses make a lot of Gs too
What's most impressive to me about this is that the race WASN'T decided in the 60ft. The Plaid's party piece is its ability to boogie out of the hole compared to other cars, but this built Hellcat on the prepped surface had that sorted as well. So this victory from the Plaid was a matter of sheer, top-end horsepower. That used to be a weakness of EVs - obviously not anymore. Outrageous.
Tesla's new party trick, once they figured out how to do it. Full power all the way.
You did notice that the Tesla had to wait for the Hellcat to go first because they are racing to see who can get the best average time, not who is the quickest off the light. Because if that was the case, The Plaid would win every time by at least 3 to 4 car lengths
EV smoking piston muscle cars...Damn that must sure pissoff a lot of people who hate Green energy
They'll flick their cigarettes at you, nearly cause a head on trying to beat me at a green, try to roll coal, spit, yell and act like the smooth brains they are. These people are knuckle dragging morons.
Real, continuous 1000 hp vs peak 1000 hp and multiple gears.
It often cannot be understood, until it is experienced.
Their head is thrown back, and stays back until I let up on the accelerator (or until my wife screams SLOW DOWN!)
You know dude was all in his feelings when he got out 1st and got passed like the paper weight on the teachers desk and the 2nd race said the hell with it half way down the track
the hellcat won the first race headatart or not. hellcat finished a lil better time
@@geffphishnutz7140 First race - Tesla 9:44. Hellcat 10:06
@@geffphishnutz7140 You clearly weren't paying attention.
@@geffphishnutz7140
First run:
Hellcat 10.06 / 140.67
Tesla 9.44 / 143.12
Second race:
Hellcat 10.12 / 140.76
Tesla 9.45 / 148.32
Forth race (Tesla wasn't in the third)
Tesla 9.39 / 148.08
Hellcat 11.30 / 124.79
The Hellcat wins only if you add the reaction time to the Tesla's ET.
Am a fossil fuel guy but that Tesla seriously whoops ICE butt!
And I'm just a fossil (77).
Makes me feel good as an American to see an American owned and built vehicle smoke a Fiat product. ‘Please consult with your doctor to see if Stellantis is right for you.”
Nice to see a family car win for a change
Plaid is just a normal but well designed for everyday driving, nothing too sporty, fancy, or loudy, yet can easily be the fastest car on earth. I'm not a fan of ev, but respect must be given when it's due.
Nice to read thoghtful respectful posts. Kudos.
FX
What respect? They're a cheat code on drag strips. Combustion vs instant electromagnetic acceleration. Fire vs lighting. That isn't fun to watch and it's definitely not what we as spectators want to experience. We want engineering. Tuning. The noises petrol engines produce. All the factors that make a race an actual race. Not putting electric coils together powered by a huge battery and hitting the gas. Dude in the Tesla could have taken a nap. Where's the fun in that?
@@Code-n-Flame COPE
That's what I call the smile factor. Comes with every tesla. Even the base model is ridiculously quick to accelerate to 135mph.
Indeed. Model S LR are doing 10.6-10.8 @128-130mph in the quarter. No slouch.
@@user-zf1ol7op7yi love eating teslas in my 30k full build with car and not having any problems with it unlike teslas
@@stevenmontague9873 Got the wrong one troll. Go take your lies, your 30k lawn mower and BS somewhere else.
@@stevenmontague9873what? You just said nothing
@@dawhoda1 Shh. Let him continue to sleep and enjoy his dream.
Ngl that dodge owner had an early start and the Tesla still caught up
Power and torque, man. Demons are scary, but Teslas are another level.
I own a base Model S and have never lost a "race" off the line, frequently coffee in hand, no lid needed. Jaw drop at least one or two punks a week.
The plate on my Plaid says: 9PT2SEC. I don't get challenged on the street. :)
Do you make money off of that?
Gas guy here, but we've known for years EVs are a better method in every respect. Plus the Tesla has all wheel drive so there is minimal wheelie-rock, that and the computer pre-dialed for this exact race type. EVs really are better in everyway. Oh except for that V8 roar.
True.
Hellcat all bark no bite 😂
Can't wait for Tesla to come out with a minivan and have them come out to the track.
Model X plaid
Smoke any shit bag goofy muscle car out there too
NOOOO it's bad enough the women who have tesla cars and suvs we don't need more. They always speed up super quick so you can't pass then when you catch up to them they slow down and it's a constant up and down and it drives me insane. They're giving way too many idiots too much torque
5400lbs 3-row SUV X Plaid beat the SF90 in the Carwow video 🤭
Lol. The Tesla equivalent to a minivan outperforming everyone's dodge example or scat or ghoul or demon or whatever. Scat owner : I was outran badly by a Tesla minivan at the track. 🤣😂
Electric is a a whole different playing field…
Bro these people disliking the fact that an electric vehicle destroyed ur dream car 😂
What is it going to take for people learn that you can't film a race from just one camera position??
No idea, a crash maybe?
For you to film it?
You mean like the one we just watched that was filmed? From one camera position?
He gave him a headstart and still won😅😅😅😅😅❤️❤️❤️❤️
Totally unfair advantage. Teslas have zero spin from all wheel drive. I’ll take my combustion power every day…
@@Webedunn hehe just facts 😉
didn't give a headstart, he just read the pole better
@@512mbflashdrive 💀💀💀
@@512mbflashdrive yup but he still won😅
Why he do him like that 😮💨All that noise for nothing😭😭😭
Ur actin like a tesla is a normal engine car😂
@@SpjojoMusic He ain't have to rev up his car like that😏 he did that to himself🫵🏽 showing off 😅
Fine for a short track. On a longer run the Tesla falls flat on its face. And after a few runs that Tesla wouldn’t be even close to catching that Hellcat.
@@dmwcapri6322 fr
@@DemereHarris i mean you do have to warm ur tires for the best performance
The Hellcat driver knew what he was doing.
Yup, coming second.
@adrianscarlett didn't say anything about the vehicle. If you had a clue you would have realized that most folks can not handle these cars especially on the launch.
@@adrianscarlett a Tesla driver needs no skill at all. That's why these vehicles don't need to come to the track.
@@sad754ytWhen I worked time slips at the drag strip I'd have to lecture these guys about going too fast all the time. Some of them would laugh and ignore me thinking it's a joke so I'd pull their wrsitbands. Don't get mad at me buddy take it up with the tower. You don't have a roll cage, you're dead going that fast.
@@sad754ytso right I noticed that also lol 🤣
Used to be a lot more crying and whining over electric cars winning races. Nice to see more people adapting instead of crying
Tesla: ultimate sleeper car
Not at all surprising since the maker of the Tesla builds rockets
The end of an era 😢
It's a whole new world now
Bro slept at the launch like it was a Saturday
Elon must be a SpaceBalls fan. Plaid? Ludicrous speed? Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
Correct. That's where Ludicrous and Plaid came from. I wonder what Mel Brooks thinks about all that.
@@julianjacoby8668 he probably isn’t to thrilled to be associated with junk.
@@slchambers1 Or maybe he owns one. 😂
@@julianjacoby8668 don’t believe I’ve seen Elon drive anything especially a Tesla
@@slchambers1 Do a TH-cam search for: Elon Musk driving a Tesla.
only if the cat weighed 1,000lbs less 😭😭
Tesla probably weighs more.
@@markgutierez9922Not probably...it does lol like almost 4800lbs vs 4400lbs give or take
Then all those extra mods would be gone
Dang he even had a late jump. Unless it was staggered.
On the first race, he gave the Dodge the hit (let him go first). The 2nd he didn't.
@@EleTruk I drag race at Willow Springs in my Plaid. A track official actually asked me to stay at the starting line until the other guy is far enough down the 1,000-foot strip, so when I go it will be close at the finish. I normally do that now ... unless my opponent shows up on a trailer and has wheelie bars, or unless my opponent is another Plaid, in which case I go full out on the green. Exception to the trailer thing: I shoot a lot of video from the starting line and keep an eye on the starter's laptop. If I know the trailered car is slower, I'll give him the hit when I leave the starting line and take my turn. :)
It's almost like you can see the frame of the Tesla straining under that sheer power
That's their last place build quality and only 1 layer of paint⚰️
Tesla's quality issues are primarily with cosmetic items, such as paint imperfections, poorly fitting body panels, and squeaks and rattles (which are more noticeable because the cabin is so quiet!) - rather than core powertrain or infotainment functions.
Fortunately, for Tesla, their drivetrain doesn't twist the frame!
@@cRAYz0ne True. Lateral motors.
It's built by rocket scientists. It'll hold.
The Hellcat hooked up (which is rare for this channel) and it actually did pretty good.
He was on drag slicks. Also looked like a good drivdr
Still lost 😊
Sad watching people try to make expensive ICE vehicles do what they really aren't designed to do. Making a high-performance ICE vehicle "hook-up" like that will never be conducive to long life. A nine second or faster ICE vehicle has to push huge torque and Hp numbers through a drivetrain that includes a multi-speed transmission and differential. The design of which will never be as robust as that of an EV especially in a production car. To keep a nine second or faster ICE vehicle track ready every week will require a team of mechanics and an owner with deep pockets. That Tesla can drag race 15 times everyday, 365 days a year for several years and never need to open the hood. LOL, you'd be lucky to get through one weekend of drag racing with a high-performance ICE without needing to repair or replace something expensive. You'd spend more time under the hood than you would behind the wheel.
@@Tron-Jockey 🥱… Look up the McLaren S. It’s a 9 sec ICE car with a warranty.
@@Tron-Jockey Okay, let's look at the Tesla then. You need 100k for a Plaid, then at least 3k for a charger in your garage. And Pete forbid something break, then you'd need to replace that part at a specialized repair shop, where with an ICE, you just roll into the mechanic. Far more expensive to repair an EV. Not to mention battery replacements and tires because they weigh a lot more. ICE vehicles have been racing and pushing their limits longer than you've been pooping on this earth, so I would say they definitely are designed to go fast.
Ots hilarious how much noise our gas engines make...just to lose 😅
Ah put a ttviper up there itll eat that rc car alive
Lemans....
@@dirtbagliberalsnake5729 or just a slightly built demon, idk if you could tell it any kind of super or turbo charger on a Tesla, and ik a demon has a supercharger, you can still put on different tires, lighter rims, cut out some other things that weigh a good amount
@@WesternEagle467 with enough $$$ anything is possible😅
@@WesternEagle467 or the challenger drag pack which runs 7s
Eletric cars being quick is pretty cool since you know
Fast as lighting or sum idk
when is the 170 getting released
To be fair, not everyone can handle a demon, and considering that its rwd, its very impressive, i would take that challenger any day
Going down the road faster would never have me wanting a Tesla over a Hellcat even though I'd never turn down a Tesla either lmao
Take a test drive in the Tesla... it is a fantastic drive, and you can hear the tunes you crank without distracting combustion noise.
So I pulled into a CVS one day. Two guys in a nearby car said: "Is a Tesla faster than a Hellcat?" I said, "With over a thousand HP, sure." WHAT? they said. "You guys wanna go for a ride around the block?" I took care of my business in CVS and told them to get in. And we went around the block in my 2021 Model S Plaid. I live in the SoCali desert, and shortly we were in the semi-boondocks, moving at 35 mph. Then I floored it, and they shot backwards. They were shouting at me to slow down. In 2 or 3 seconds I was at 85 mph. I looked over at them and said: "Yeah. Faster than a Hellcat."
Fastest plaid ran high 8s.
A little modified to the body but stock motors and batteries.
Stripped interior and a 120-lb. driver.
I want a super charged v8 so bad but man these videos got EVs growing on me
Get an EV and they can literally turn off your car whenever they want, and during power outages you can’t refill
@@WesternEagle467 naw I’m a software engineer. I’ll be pirating my heated seats and steering wheel 🤣
@@HotSauceRust if I have to get an EV one day could you do the same to mine?
Get electric faster and save on fuel
@@WesternEagle467 who is they? No one is going to do that. In a power outage you could still charge with an inverter generator.
"It's all sound and fury, signifying nothing"...sad. I used to, and still occasionally do, build ICE cars. It was a big part of my growing up, but the power of EVs is undeniably superior. All that said, people still watch horse racing, so motorsports is unlikely to ever die out
I wore my Secretariat T-shirt yesterday. (If you don't know who that was, Google it.)
Camera's on the wrong end of the strip.
Its almost dumb that most of these gas cars even try racing these teslas. All of the power in electric cars goes straight from the batteries to the wheels which makes it pretty difficult for any gas car to beat becauseof all the mechanical parts in a gas car to get the power from engine to wheels.
🤣😭 The boat had a head start
Awd vs rwd. Hope he would win. To stupid to go on green.
He was a better driver that's all. Tesla just didn't care.
How much HP does the hellcat have?
That wasn't the plaid, it was just a model S, the plaid has a wing in the back and a thicker hood, the plaid is much much faster with an option of insane acceleration and lowering cheetah stance
There's plaid versions of the Model S and the Model X. Thicker hood and wing?
@@logitech4873 yup
Ehhh, sorry, that is wrong. It is the Plaid. The other option is the Long Range, and it won't do a quarter mile in the 9s. No big wing comes stock, the hoods are the same, and I'm sure that blue Tesla has the Plaid badge on the back.
the first run the tesla driver must have been tx' in someone 😂
That hellcat got a jump on the first one and still got smoked
Does the Tesla need a parachute since it's going under 9.5 sec? Or does that only apply to ICE? I bet the Tesla has a crazy regen braking force.
The stock Plaid brakes suck. I replaced my rotors with Mountain Pass Performance versions and the pads with track/street versions from Unplugged Performance.
@@julianjacoby8668 The Tesla in this race the brakes have been upgraded? The rotors look big and chunky like they would stop from high speed.
@@trythis2821 Purple hat, cooling vanes. That looks like the Easy Big Fella setup from Mountain Pass Performance, which I also have. I have the stock calipers with street/track pads from Unplugged Performance. Additionally, I had the front brake dust covers cut off -- they interfere with heat dissipation, which MPP proved. Works very well on the drag strip, much better than stock. At Willow Springs where I race, the shutdown area is very short so I stomp the brakes. You still get the brake overheat warning after a couple runs in close succession, but that's not based on measured temperature. The car makes a calculation, which is wrong for my brake setup. So I ignore it. By the way, my name is Michael McKown, car's name is Pippi Plaidstocking. I was just too damn lazy to change my Google account in answering. 🤣
@@trythis2821 I tried answering earlier but I don't see my comment. All right, it looks like the brakes are the Easy Big Fellas from Mountain Pass Performance. Air vanes and the purple hat. I have the same setup on mine. I still have the stock calipers (now painted red) but the pads are street/track from Unplugged Performance, along with stainless brake lines and upgraded brake fluid. I also had the front dust covers cut off. MPP proved they retain heat. If I run 2 or 3 times in quick succession, I still get a brake overheat warning, but that doesn't come from actual temperature measurement; it's a calculation the car makes, and it doesn't apply to upgraded brakes, so I ignore it. Looks to me like that Tesla is also running Martian forged wheels. BTW, Julian Jacoby is a BS name I use mostly for my Google Voice account. I'm just too lazy to change account names when answering here. Real name is Michael McKown and my car is: Pippi Plaidstocking. I have my own racing channel, check it out. Latest video is 40 minutes of fun at Willow Springs International Raceway. It is: mike's tesla model s plaid drag racing channel. Merry Christmas! 😎
Silence is golden 😅. When you thought you had to be loud to show how fast your car is.
My hearing completely sucks. It would be worse, if that's possible, in a gas-powered drag car. EVs are silent, except for an electric whine.
Petrol or diesel any day over electric… the sound of the engine makes you feel alive
G forces do it for me. I don't care about the sound.
I'm a gearhead, electric cars should be in their own bracket.
Tired of getting beat?
This feels like when you see a huge WWE wrestler dude go against some "average" looking BJJ fighter in MMA. Those tires on the Hellcat are certainly intimidating and the roar of that engine is really impressive.
It's all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Clip clop of horses gave way to sound of gasoline motors,
It's now time to realize that "sound" generate from those motors signifies a waste of "energy", and that the next generation is electric.
As you can see from the comments... there will be those that will fight for what they've grown comfortable with... just like our parents fought against email and the internet and netflix and youtube ;)
It's always fun to have a front seat to change!
The tesla plaid is the best for sure for many years to come in every way !!! Very practical slick and superb in performance etc.. Sad to see some many jealous tesla haters out there man!!:(!!
Because they can’t afford! I want a plaid .,,
It looks like shit lol. It is quick though.
It’s fucking ugly bro , it’s not that anybody hates how quick It is . The looks aren’t just there
Well, let's even things a little. "Plus 1" additional Tesla Fan! Those PLAIDs are awesome!! Rented 1 on Turo. "Love at 1st swipe!" Gotta have one. Runs 0-60 in 2.3, and ¼ mile in 9.44! Maybe faster. Drives around the burnout box and on street tires and runs 9s!! Even the haters got to admit that is Awesome!!
"It's ugly", is what is usually said when haters have nothing else to hate on but who cares? It is what it is.
This reminds me of an air show I went to. They had a P51D Spitfire next to a 737-800. Ya the Boeing was a faster craft, and it was all but ignored by the fans, but what a crowd around that P51.
Should compare fighter to fighter.
P51D next to F15, F16, F18, or Stealth.
I've been to static displays and walked around all of them.
Admired the great feats of engineering... for their times... but time does march on.
What was best, is now no longer.
The P-51 was one sexy airplane and really quick for its era. The 737 is faster but not sexy. But the F-4 Phantom II? Sexy beast.
Now my Prius has a chance 😂
Those were still both REALLY good runs imo
1981 Camaro you fired
The rumble from the tesla was intensifying🥴
🤫 not so loud
If you hear a rumble from a Tesla, somethin' done gone south....
@@julianjacoby8668sarcasm🥴
Closer then expected 😊
Bc the Hellcat got a head start lol
@@Daddykins303 need to use your eyes
See the thing with electric is full power no matter what speed you are at. No power band think of it as a off on switch. Switch it on full HP the gas motors have to spin up and get into the power.
It is a paradigm shift that people need to experience to fully appreciate. No "torque curve" requiring gears to maximize power through the drive train as internal engine / transmissions have. EV has a consistent torque across all speeds. And the only noise is from the tires on the road, so I can have my tunes cranked. ;)
And that is the problem. ICE = narrow torque band. And in drag racing, the difference really shows.
TESLAS ARE DIFFERENT.
I'VE NEVER SEEN A TESLA LOSE A RACE. I'VE SEEN TESLAS RACE LAMBORGHINIS.
Just because it's faster doesn't mean you want it. You microwave a burger faster than you can grill it. Which burger do you want?
Dr Michael Savage hell cat 😸❤ from Canada 💕
Depends on hunger level.
The faster one. Speed is king.
yeah, keep justifying it lol
Irrelevant.
We're talking about cars not food.
I don’t support EV’s.
That being said, I absolutely love how angry car bros & hellcat owners get when you being up a Tesla 😂
At Willow Springs one day at the drags, I was wearing my Tesla Plaid T-shirt. An older fella came up to me and said, "I guess we know who will win today." I replied: "Don't worry, I won't take it out of first gear." 🤣
Kudos to being able to separate your valid personal preferences from the debate. It is the foundation of engaging discussions.
@@julianjacoby8668with the insider joke also being the Tesla doesn't have a typical gearing system!
No shifting required.
@@kenlowe-ca Just a reduction gear on each motor.
Tesla plaid is 4 four wheel drive more traction on the road, that helicat looks like 2 wheel traction on back only.
The amazing thing is all these people bashing Tesla will probably turn around and tell you that they are true patriotic Americans without even stopping to think and realize that Tesla is the most American-made car in the world not made in Mexico or Canada or Europe or South America like other so-called American brands. They hire over 700,000 Americans and pay them way more money than the other American brands. It's American Ingenuity and Innovation and brains that came up with this amazing machine and Tesla is taking over the future of automotive transportation despite the decade lead that China has. As far as I'm concerned go Tesla go America and the rest of these yahoos can go away
It's pretty obvious that people in this thread believe the Tesla posts their grandma shared on Facebook. The misinformation is comical at this point.
Not quite. Highest percentage of American made parts and built in the USA, true. The number of Tesla employees is 127,800, not far removed from GM's total. And apparently UAW-union employees make more than most Tesla employees do.
Left the line a day late and still caught him. 😂😂😂😂
Did you know, V8s love getting off the line that’s why they use em in drag racing a lot, and teslas don’t get off the line, but yes it still won
He didn’t leave the line late the teslas don’t get up off the line like *SNAP* but they get faster as they go
@@WesternEagle467 Did you see the second run?
@@WesternEagle467 My first Tesla Model S was a 2015 P90DL, the L meaning Ludicrous Mode, the predecessor to Plaid. That thing launched violently. I mean, the blood in your brain slammed into the rear of your skull. Acceleration dropped off fairly quickly, tho. I believe Tesla dialed down the violence of the launch a bit with the Plaid.
Love them or hate them those things are stupid fast. Rode in a P100D once for a 0-100 run and it’s literally like one of those roller coasters lethargy launch you out of the gate at high speed… Can barely even lean forward in the seat
Elon Musk was talking to someone years ago. Guy was talking about one of the less expensive Teslas, which he described as "the slow one." Musk shot back: "There are no slow Teslas."
The future. You'll need a hearing aid to hear what's going on
I have two.
Dodge demon: 840 horsepower, 8.9 1/4 mile
Tesla model S plaid: 1,020 horsepower, 8.7 1/4 mile
No one does 8 sec passes in a stock demon, NO ONE, not even close. Not a tesla fan here either, just stating the facts
@@Silent9n54 they don’t correct, they can pull 8.91
@@WesternEagle467 With a 1025 HP Demon 170, not an 840 HP Demon.
IF the Plaid is stripped. And has a 120-lb. driver.
@@julianjacoby8668 wait that’s with a stripped plaid? I thought that was it honestly stock and it just got that extra speed form the 4 wheel drive
As a Model Y Long Range owner I couldn't imagine owning the performance model, it's quick as it is....
9.4 is pretty slow for a plaid. Should be closer to 9.2.
I've seen 9.2s to 9.4s in mine depends on traction and your reaction speed. Anything north of 9.5 would be very odd and "slow" for an S Plaid.
He may not be using Cheetah mode.
I race mine on a 1,000 foot strip. On drag radials, I can get to the end in 7.85 seconds at 135 mph. Using a Dragy on that same strip but starting further back, I've done the quarter in 9.5 seconds, but by then I'm slowing down. Where I race is a road course and there's a sharp left turn near the end of the "drag strip" shut down area. I have to shave speed quickly or probably crash. Without need of slowing, I could probably turn 9.2-ish to 9.3-ish.
Imagine spending all that money on a badass muscle car only to lose to some battery powered rejected minvan.
The Plaid is more expensive
Imagine not knowing that a teslas battery being made makes the same amount off pollution that the gas car makes in 6 years, and by the time it’s been 5-6 years it needs replaced
@@iannealcole not in top speed😂😂
@@Sky-ns4jb I wonder why they don't have 1/2 mile drag races, so cars can use their entire speed.
@@iannealcole I think the Tesla has an electronic limiter
La motorisation électrique sera toujours plus rapide est il faut s'y habitué mais si j'avais le choix cest vrai que je prendrais la dodge
Mais seulement parce qu'ils ne les fabriqueront plus, et seront un objet de collection?
Some people like horse carriage others like to evolve.
When you Listen to your Heart you select the v8... When you like to be Number One you select the Tesla.
My daughter just bought a new Plaid. I’ll see it for the first time tomorrow. You think she’ll let her daddy drive it? Lol
She finally got a car that will beat her husband’s Porsche 911.
How did you enjoy the drive?
Or did she say "sorry dad, you're too old" hheheheheehe damn kids!!
I know I didn't see a tesla s plaid beat a dodge challenger hellcat
Where u been? Tesla does that in its sleep.
Plaid beats the Demon too
Cheated the jump, kept scooting further ahead before the go. Still got absolutely shit on. Love to see it.
Tesla guy was late, Dodge didn't go early
Tesla gave him the jump on the first run.
Did the guy in the RWD ICE Hellcat really think that he stood a chance against the AWD EV Plaid???
He hoped he had a chance. But he didn't.
Pound for pound, an electric motor is several times more powerful than an internal combustion engine.
But it's not that far off, less than a second. And now race from California to New York. Hellcat wins by multiple days. 😂