In December, Tesla released a promotional video showing a Cybertruck beating a Porsche 911 in a quarter-mile race, while towing a Porsche 911.
And although we already had doubts about the validity of this unusual confrontation, MotorTrend nevertheless settled the debate, proving once and for all that the coup was rigged.
MotorTrends has taken the “slowest new 911 you can buy” and a Cyberbeast variant of Tesla’s pickup truck to a race track. The team even invited Jason Fenske from the YouTube channel Engineering Explained, who did an extensive takedown of Tesla’s promotional video in January.
And the effects speak for themselves. The tugboat Cybertruck passed the Porsche 911 in top races after only an eighth of a kilometre. At the quarter-mile finish line, the 911’s lead widens significantly to just over a fraction of a second, which is an abundant margin on the drag track.
“No matter how you slice it, proportion it, or add an asterisk to the claim, Tesla and Elon Musk’s wonderful boasts don’t hold up,” MotorTrends’ Eric Tingwall concluded. “There is no situation in which the Tesla Cybertruck Beast drives a fully functional Porsche 911 Carrera T for a quarter mile before the Porsche 911 Carrera T reaches the finish line. “
To be clear, as MotorTrends is quick to point out, the Cybertruck continues to scream fast, accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in a dizzying 2. 5 seconds. Without a trailer, the Cybertruck would “completely decimate” the sports car, as Tingwall noted.
However, Tesla’s misleading advertising went far beyond this claim: a well-established trend for the swaggering Musk.
Worse yet, Tesla temporarily backtracked on its claims made in the original promotional video, and Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill made up an excuse shortly after Fenske shared his video in January: Team n’ only ran the eighth mile and took on the career. the result would be close in the entire quarter mile race. They didn’t even bother running the full quarter mile because “we decided to call it a day before anyone got hurt. “
This is just the 911 video. Tesla also released a video of a Cybertruck pulling an F-150 up a hill in 2019. In a recent rematch involving a Silverado diesel pickup truck, created via the Cyber Hooligan YouTube channel , the Cybertruck simply gave up getting moving, letting itself be dragged along helplessly.
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