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It's the quickest and king of the 1/4 mile now (factory showroom stock vs. factory showroom stock:

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Jay Leno shatters Bugatti Chiron ¼ mile time to set new world speed record in Tesla Model S Plaid

Jay Leno made history on his show Jay Leno’s Garage, Wednesday, when he set a new world record in a Tesla Model S Plaid. The comedian broke the Bugatti Chiron Sport’s production car quarter-mile speed record of 9.4 seconds.

Tesla chief designer Franz Von Holzhausen explained what makes the Tesla Model S Plaid so special, other than the 1,000 plus horsepower drive system.

“This is tri-motor - two in the back, one in the front,” Von Holzhausen explained. “So all three motors are carbon-sleeve motors. It's new, never been done before, invented by Tesla. And that just allows you to have constant power until you run out of room or you run out of speed. The CdA (coefficient of aerodynamic drag), the frontal area of the car increases, but we managed to get the coefficient to drag lower - so it's 0.207.”

While the Chiron Sport is fitted with an eight-liter quad-turbocharged W16 engine producing 1,479 horsepower, the Tesla Plaid’s secret weapon was Jay Leno behind the wheel. The comedian managed a shocking time of only 9.247 seconds.




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Re: That Plaid is no joke in 1320 feet as it smoked the Bus so not surprised
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2021, 08:24:10 PM »
Like I've said, the Plaid beat up the Bus and the 14 by a few 10ths of a second too (stock for stock):




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Re: That Plaid is no joke in 1320 feet as it smoked the Bus so not surprised
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2021, 08:31:49 PM »
Out of the 3 losers, the Chiron loses big in terms of dollar per second ratio:






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Re: That Plaid is no joke in 1320 feet as it smoked the Bus so not surprised
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2021, 03:36:25 AM »
Oh...so my biggest question is.  How does it corner?  Will it be able to take that 20 mph street corner at 100 mph and not die or crash?



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