Till we are able to truly line up a Tesla Mannequin S Plaid and a Porsche Taycan Turbo S, the YouTube channel, Blue Tablet or Crimson Tablet has put collectively the following smartest thing. They line up the 2 automobiles nearly and evaluate the information from a dragy app that was collected throughout separate quarter-mile runs with the 2 automobiles.
I have never had the prospect to drive a Tesla Mannequin S Plaid simply but, however I’ve pushed a couple of Porsche Taycan Turbo Ss, and it is onerous for me to essentially think about how briskly the Mannequin S Plaid is as a result of the Taycan Turbo S is simply insane. Actually, after doing 4 successive 0 to 100-mph launches with the Taycan Turbo S, I truly felt just a little dizzy.
So it is onerous for me to think about the way it should really feel in a Tesla Mannequin S Plaid when it will probably run a quarter-mile greater than a full second quicker than a Taycan Turbo S. And that is not even the quickest we have seen the Mannequin S Plaid cowl the 1/4 mile in. We lately introduced you a video from the YouTube Channel, State of affairs Plaid, that confirmed the Model S Plaid taking only 9.22 seconds to cowl the quarter-mile. That is simply mind-blowing.
Some stats from the video comparability:
| 60 ft | 0-60-mph |
1/8 mile |
1,000 ft | 60 to 130-mph | 1/4 mile | |
| Mannequin S Plaid | 1.56 seconds | 2.28 seconds | 6.06s@120.87 | 7.82s@139.02 | 4.67 seconds | 9.30s@151.96 |
| Taycan Turbo S | 1.56 seconds | 2.53 seconds | 6.62s@104.74 | 8.66s@119.59 | 7.86 seconds | 10.39s@129.90 |
Each automobiles launch the identical and attain the 60-foot level in precisely the identical time; 1.56 seconds. Nevertheless, that is when the Mannequin S Plaid begins to tug away from the Porsche. The Plaid hits 60-mph in 2.28 seconds, .25 seconds quicker than the two.53 seconds that the Taycan Turbo S wanted.
Discover that 0-60 time wasn’t lower than 2 seconds although, and that is as a result of the Plaid wasn’t on a surface prepped with VHT TrackBite and didn’t use the 1-foot rollout wanted to get its 0 to 60 time (effectively, actually its 6 to 60 time) down beneath 2 seconds.
So far as I am involved, Tesla’s fooling around worrying about selling the Mannequin S Plaid as with the ability to break the 2-second threshold in 0 to 60 runs as a result of it simply so stupidly quick, who actually cares about that one metric? It does the 1/4 mile in 9.3 seconds – that is all it’s essential know.
Have a look at the 60-mph to 130-mph instances. The Mannequin S Plaid crushes the Taycan Turbo S by over 3 seconds. Actually, the Mannequin S Plaid goes 0 to 130-mph quicker than the Taycan Turbo S goes 60 to 130-mph- and the Taycan does so in beneath 8 seconds which is amazingly quick in its personal proper!
We’re certain we’ll quickly get to see an precise race between these two EV heavyweights on the identical monitor with the identical floor situations. Nevertheless, for now, you may try the video above and evaluate the stats.