The fact that the Plaid can fit my grandma, mom, sister, and her daughter going to Sunday brunch, or four of my buddies with a couple kegs, and still do THIS to a tuned McLaren is absolutely ball tingling.
@@sirmonkey1985 No it doest.. A VW electric car does.. and of course an electric car is faster, it has no resistance or lag during launch or acceleration.. Its not a fair comparison. I dont know if you have driven a performance electric car, but they are so boring. You get that gimmicky torque and quick acceleration and that it.. It gets old so fast. There is no real sound or engine noise, no awesome exhaust note.. Its just flat out boring like being on the same roller coaster over and over again.
Ever since I was a child, I imagined what my RC Car would be like if it were large enough for me to drive. That RC car was really quick. That was 50 years ago. The time has come!!
Exactly! Curiosity got the best of me and I ended up getting one and it's practically an oversized badass RC car that you can use for practical reasons. And more fun to drive.
Kudos to the guy with the McLaren,he knows how to drive it and wasn't even mad,gets asked :would you buy a Tesla? Answers:yes.Its an amazing race,hard to find someone with a car worth over $300k and willing to put it on the line.
@@zoultronzoultron9723 Honestly I would too, so I could rip it once, sell it before it blows up, buy a plaid and have a hefty down-payment on a roadster if I could get lucky enough for a reservation.
Fuck, man. This right here. Anthony is a real car guy - appreciates speed when he sees it, no matter if he wins or loses. That said, he might have just been really happy to be alive! Dude's got balls. After that performance you best believe this man flogs his 1000hp 720S. Love it when rich dudes don't baby their supercars. I wanna shake his hand.
When battery energy density reaches that of gasoline, that's when daily drivers are all 1,000+ HP and performance cars are 3,000+ HP. Looking forward to it.
I had the same question as you, but here's how I can make sense of it: 1st, the Tesla guy floored the break immediately after hitting the finish line. The McLaren guy was trying to win that he delayed his breaking just a bit. 2nd, the McLaren was going like 3 or 4 mph more.
@@jmoneyyy2116- The regen charges the batteries but does nothing to aid braking. The braking on the Plaids is marginal at best for the weight and speed they can go. If the Tesla owner hadn’t hit the brakes right at the finish line and instead braked at the same point the 720 I guarantee you would have seen a Tesla totaled and likely several passengers injured.
I feel like we need to learn more about these electric cars and performance much like old deer heads with old school tuning. Nobody knows anything but was what they read in the pamphlet and read on the Internet.
@@Dirty88Dizl they are pretty simple and complex at the same time. Drawing from my experience in playing with Tamiya 4WD and RC cars, things driven by electric motors go faster if their electromagnetic coils can generate stronger fields and if their batteries can supply the needed power to do so. Thicker coil wire usually result in higher torque but also result in higher current draw, so you'd need batteries that have a higher mAh rating. If the motors use permanent magnets then stronger permanent magnets could make stronger motors too. What makes electric vehicles complex are the control electronics, and electric cars have more complex things going on vs. RC cars. RC cars don't have traction control, abs, stability control, etc.
@@rudysantana6369 yeah. A lot of hypercar owners just buy their cars and then drive them with zero mods. I don't think anyone is modding a Bugatti or a Koenigsegg like how people mod LS-powered cars.
I feel like the hoonigan channel is the only place we can all safely watch electric and gas go head to head and no one is butt hurt about it haha great race!
Yeah kudos to the people around here being chill about it all. What a PAIR of cars these are. These cars are obscenely, obnoxiously, comically, cosmically fast. Trap speed at the end of the airstrip HAD to be approaching 170....if not OVER that. 300 kph was not far away. As for commitment.....the McLaren guy wins this one. Talk about swingin' for the fences. As someone stuck driving an econobox Corolla, I'd take ANYTHING fast to drive daily. I'd get myself killed in a Plaid....and what a glorious few seconds it would be.
that would be wicked but i think in some cars the vehicle has to be a certain speed before CC works... like in my F150 i have to be above 40KM/hr for the cruise control to work
mclaren is made for high speed if this was real race not childs 1/4 you'd see how much faster it is because electric junk has no gears and can't go very fast
@@joemarz2264 that only works on youtube irl v8s are always faste and can go somewhere especially in winter, you'll be frozen to death in your electric junk.
I was shocked it did so well after 100. Off the line its a no brainier. You have to know that the McLaren would lose the first few hundred feet no doubts. Hp doesn't work out the same in electric cars. When they say 1000 it's a really distorted number. Sae horse power is a metric designed for engines. even then its kinda a marketing wank. The real insights come in the torque vs wheel RPM not converting torque into a number divided by RPM. This is where the distorted numbers on high revving engines vs low revving high torque engines come in. If you think about it, even the engine rpms don't matter if you keep the gearing in the power curve. In a engine this is really hard to do. The Tesla doesn't need to mess around with gear ratios because it can almost directly translate motor RPM to the drive shaft. Gearing very close to the peak power band is nearly impossible down low if you want a car that also has a high top speed. For that McLaren to be at peak torque the turbos need to be at nominal boost no matter how much launch control tries to get that, it will what's struggle to keep it there.
@@notsam498 But 1000 Torque is no wank number, shaft of the motor connected directly on the wheel driveshaft, no tranny to lose power. These new Tesla motors will do 20,000 rpms, three phase motor so there is zero loss it power verses a two phase or single phase motor. I work on industrial sites. 600v and 30 amps, you should see how fast a 10 ft round impeller fan built out of 1/4" steel starts and gets to full speed. Almost instantly. There's a reason a train engine doesn't use the straight 16 turbo diesel engine to drive the train, only to run a massive alternator providing 600v to the massive electric traction motors... torque!
Ev's becoming faster to me is sorta like when autos became faster than manuals. In your heart you want the manual to win but that auto is always gonna gap you. Its the future and things change🤷♂️. Not gonna stop us from liking the whines and whistles of high performance engines though✊
You’d have to be super misinformed to think EVs are not the future. Once I saw Tesla produce quicker cars with 300+ mi range batteries and have them last 200k miles before needing a battery replacement, I knew it was the future
@@skillfulgoose101 right, but he said it was tuned, had a dp etc. 1000hp and almost half the weight. Still pretty crazy the Tesla pulled like that on it.
such a sick race, that last race was best for me in the entire "this/that" series. That Tesla is insane and those McLaren brakes at the end came in clutch.
Na the tesla races are the lamest we all realize mechanical machines are not going to keep up with instant power it's basic math. I could build an rc car that would beat both of them but it's Hardly impressive
And to all the people you can't pick up girl with a plaid you can pick up your girlfriend,your mom and your sister and still smoke your expensive ICE cars.😂😂
@@charlierose1708 Tesla's are impressive, EV's will continue to get faster and dominate. We still wanna watch ICE races though, gimme dat ICE ICE baby. Feels like an alive machine not an iPhone with wheels.
Perfect example to all the "tuner kiddies" or "honda R.I.C.E. club" of exactly why a brake upgrade is crucial. And that thing has MASSIVE ass ceramic racing brakes... keep THAT in mind kiddos.
@@youngyingyang What's your point? McLaren is a Luxury Super Car that only has a couple made int he entire world made of the best materials and Technology you can get. If people only cared about how fast they go in a straight line for the cheapest, then everyone would have a GTR and no one would buy a Lambo, Ferrari or Porsche.
@@hellfun1337 you don’t really need it as the front wheels won’t have the grip needed to power through. That’s why 2 motors at the back is better and 1 good motor can do the job on the front wheels.
@@bernhard.k it’s going to have 4 motors and the new battery technology. Plus the space x thruster package if you buy it. It’s going to probably run 7’s.
@@harsimranbansal5355 If its going to compete with a the 911 then it needs massive downforce in the front and engines to give it the power to over come that downforce.
"Why don't I just go when I hear his car?" is seriously one of the most laid back epic trash talk I've ever heard in my life!!!! It literally made me lol!
We never saw him brake. Hope you're not trying to say that the tesla stops better than the mclaren, obviously the Mclaren guy braked much later. A single brake is dictated by grip at the tires.
What do you mean? That’s just a given, the engine helps break to slow the car so it can recycle energy Semi trucks have used engine breaks for ages just not for recycling energy
@@thezyreick4289 all I’m saying is that it’s very efficient at doing so and even stopped earlier than a much lighter car even though it had 2 husky passengers.
I’m still so shocked with what the plaid is capable of, I’ve had one ride in one at a cars & coffee event and it just keeps pulling. The gap in performance between the P100D and the plaid is monumental and it’s crazy how not even a few years ago, the P100D was one of, if not the quickest thing on the road from a dig…
@@kunaldahiya310 Bro, roadster 2, idk if it's healthy for consumers. Carbro's say Plaid is too much for consumers. Even for carbro's it's just too hard. Roadster 2 is even faster. What if some die? Like, break the neck? It's too fast. Need pro driver and helmet.
why are u shocked that an electric car is that fast? it literally has instant torque. I'm not tryna clown you but any real car enthusiast wouldnt be shocked over an electric being faster off the line than a gas powered car because they know that all that power is instant
"Drum machines have no soul". Same between internal combustion compared to electric. They can excel rapidly, but without character. Llike watching a 2hr silent movie reading subtitles, no thanks I want the total package!
Horses -> Petrol -> Electric I'll miss this era too. I bought a manual transmission car recently and I'm afraid it might be the last petrol car I'll own.
it's pretty much the pinnacle for ICE cars-maxed out with the Chiron. this is just the beginning for EV technology. 3000hp EV's within 3 years and the NHRA will be all Electric dragsters running 100,000hp-20,000hp classes in 10 years. this will be great for car lovers!
The Tesla still has the software top speed limited to 160 mph and it still won. That top speed limiter is supposed to be removed through an update later this Fall. It won't even be close then.
People need to understand they are competing with a crazy guy who builds rocket he's bringing a whole different game to the car world and as always People are afraid of change.
and just think, this (the plaid) is only a "normal" road car. I'm wondering what the new Roadster version will show lol. Also in regards to the end of an era comment going from petrol to electric. Shouldn't that be more like full circle instead? I think first cars were electric, seem to remember hearing that somewhere. It has just taken this long to get energy storage up to the point it is a viable option now.
In 1898, Ferdinand Porsche designed the Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton. The vehicle was powered by an octagonal electric motor, and with three to five PS it reached a top speed of 25 km/h. In 1899, Porsche joined the carriage maker in Vienna, k.u.k. Hofwagenfabrik Ludwig Lohner & Co. As per internet states, so it has made a circle in some way
It's mechanical vs electric 😂🤣 it's basic math. Nobody with more than 2 brain cells would think something mechanical could move at the speed of light , I don't get why so many people are impressed by Teslas 🤷
Fun fact: the first speeding ticket ever given in america was to an electric car is the 1890s doing 12mph on a 8mph zone. The cop stopped them on a bike.
Smoking the McLaren while being over 1600 lbs heavier is what really impresses me. There is still so much room for even crazier performance when batteries get stronger and lighter in the future.
I can't help but imagine if the Tesla engineers actually made a car just for drag. It wouldn't need the massive battery pack because it wouldn't need the range. Wouldn't need the back seat or any of the other luxury features.
On the last roll run. It was kind of uneven.. The McLaren hammered it almost a car length ahead of the tesla. And tesla still won by a nose. With all that extra weight.. wow
The Tesla lost the last race, try to freeze it on the line I did and the Tesla lost by about 18 inches which considering the advantage the 720s had in terms of weight etc was still amazing by the Plaid.
The Tesla Model S was already at max speed of 163 mph and can't go past that right now because the software is holding it back. That is the only reason why that last race is so close because the Tesla Model S already hit 163 mph way before the finish line.
I remember people laughed at Hellcats when they were getting smoked by Teslas several years ago. And you could say they were similar cars (both 4 door sedans). Now you get a much lighter freaking hypercar with the same amount of power as the Tesla yet it’s still not enough! Lol…
@@manveerghuman5276 And the McLaren has a dedicated spot at the dealership for its many visits? No thanks, I don't have the time to look cool driving around.
@@manveerghuman5276 You're not getting a 720S performance below 300K, and this one has a stack of add-ons (carbon fiber everything, tuned, etc). Even carbon fiber rims... I bet this one from new is on the heavy side of 400K, possibly even more.
It really isn't. It's expected since those carbon ceramics rotors and pads on the McLaren were cold. The Tesla plaid is known to have poor braking. If the McLaren had all metal rotors and matching pads, or if those carbon ceramics were warm,, it wouldn't have been a problem. Carbon ceramic brakes cost 10X the equivalent steel (easy) for a reason. That Tesla is reported to stop from 60 mph, using some 11 extra feet, compared with that 720. That difference should get MUCH larger from 150 mph. Just a very small number of stops like that, and you sharply lose braking efficacy in the Tesla due to its extremely large mass (for a car). The McLaren on the otherhand, should progressively begin to stop more responsively and sharply, and will likely stay that way.
@@1uzfe I had to google this gibberish. Are you suggesting I'm sour for the results in the video? That's fine, idc too much. I'm just generslly a fan of motorsports.
@@toddsimone7182 that's a good point. I wonder how much braking it is responsible for under these hard stopping circumstances. I doubt it's alot, because it would need to have tremendous heat capacity and still function as an electrical device. Normal brake already have high heat capacity, and are yet overwhelmed all the time at the track (hence the carbon ceramic upgrade.) Also, it seems Tesla even offers carbon ceramic upgrade (~20K usd). I think they know their Plaid is bad at stopping repeatedly. It's just so heavy. I recommend Throttle House's review of the Plaid.
I love watching hoonigan do drag races but I'm still waiting for some of the other crew members of hoonigan to get their cars out (Cough cough) twerkstallion Napalm Nova and Porsche 911
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Just blows my mind. Tesla weighed like 6000lbs with all of them in it and still beat the mclaren. This is just the beginning. Imagine what a 4 motor Tesla would accomplish 🤯
Similar to a Rimac Nevera I guess, you can see it race a Plaid on youtube. My concern is as the price comes down on these cars, you'll have idiots on the streets with 1000-2000 HP +
A lot of Tesla haters, all of them say Teslas suck and gas are better because gas is loud, but boy a Tesla is like the quiet kid. Tesla Plaid is only a Sedan, yet it’s this quick and good. Everyone just wait until the Roadster drops.
@@andremessado7659 and they had it on different tires than he normally ran, and I don't think he sprayed. That RS3 in it's usual prep would have beat the Hoonicorn.
It won't get released its mainly used for hype purposes .. so the tesla braindead fanboys can get hyped and buy stocks because tesla are negative each year ... except for 2020
@@Tetrathegod my man mad because we are hype because of a car company is making vehicles😂, if tesla is just saying that because of hype then the Model 3 was for hype as well, everyone thought that a 35,000$ EV was imposible but Tesla did it anyways, or delivering 500,000 EV by 2020 was impossible as well? Tesla literally grown more than 50% per year for 10 years in avg. Sorry if I'm hype but Tesla in known for its track record and history.
@@typhoon-7 You forget this is a family Sedan. A grandma can drop off her 3 grandchildren at school then smoke some ICE fools at a drag race then go camping with it the next day. Tesla hasn't made a serious race car yet.
I rode in a tesla . The ride is incredible. Smooth exhilaration ,smooth ride on the street and highway sound proof, comfortable. Really enjoyable. All kinds of technology in this car.
FACTORY Plaid vs a modded McLaren.... far out man. And even with 3 beefy passengers, the 'electric shopping trolley' stayed with the McLaren. This is amazing... and we are just beginning the Sport EV life cycle. I mean, I LOVE the sounds of ICE... but if you can buy the Plaid off the shelf and still be a practical daily driver (the McLaren is NOT a daily driver), that's unbelievable.
I see all these people saying, “the model s is fast, but take it around a track”. Well, its a 4 door, 5000 lb sedan, so no its not a track car despite being stupid fast. The Roadster is going to be faster than a hyabusa motorcycle lol.
I have a hellcat redeye and I'm selling it to get a tesla plaid. I never thought I'd say that burn I rode in one a week ago and it is so fucking fast, it's hard to describe. Once you ride or drive one you'll change your mind too.
I genuinely appreciate the fact that the owner of that McLaren that cost probably $350,000 or more didn't come off as a cocky, arrogant prick. He honestly seemed like a pretty chill dude!
Bonus race should have involved corners. That's the true test for a cars overall performance. But I'm from Colorado, where we did some real racing in the canyons back in the day, and most of my spirited driving is on the winding roads nowadays as well. Personally, I find it much more exhilarating than just doing pulls. I wouldn't want to try and throw almost 5,000 lbs through the corners. And it's hard to beat the sound and soul of an ICE powered car. But maybe that's just me?
It isn’t that the Tesla has regenerative brakes vs friction brakes in the McLaren. Rather, the Tesla has the advantage of having both friction brakes AND regenerative brakes.
@@JoshPoseyTech That is incorrect. Regen works great for a gentle slow from highway speeds, but from 160 mph, they're definitely all over the hydraulic brakes.
@@JoshPoseyTech Nothing to do with regen braking. Hope you're not trying to say that the tesla stops better than the mclaren, obviously the Mclaren guy braked much later. A single brake is dictated by grip at the tires, once you get to the limit of grip at the tires, more braking power doesn't do nothing. Mclaren has much better braking power, and 100% stops better.
@@weed46 regen braking works at all times when the brake is applied unless otherwise turned off. It is most efficient and makes the most since to be used at higher speed braking, it allows for more kinetic energy to be transferred into electricity. Tesla does have extended features that allow you to use a one pedal drive for example, but the regen braking is a significant part of the braking system on these Tesla’s. I have a high performance electric scooter with hydraulic brakes and regen braking. The regen braking works from higher speed braking, but not at lower speed.
Funny to imagine in the movie “The fast and the furious” if a Tesla turned up to challenge all those boy racers who had their big engined cars would have been blown away by the Tesla.
I'm shocked that none of them knew about the Plaid being able to pull hard as fuck when rolling too. Some owners say that punching it at 60mph results in faster acceleration than the 0-60. The Plaid is the kingpin for now, hands down. That is until the Tesla Roadster comes out..
People still think the Plaid is like the old Model S, just a launch and not as good at top end performance. But that's actually the main difference, torque curve is practically flat towards the top end now and it can outdo virtually any other car in both acceleration and top end. The only way to beat it right now is having a higher top speed (over 175mph now, and over 200 when they unlock it) and going a mile+ to reach that top speed.
Not for at least 20 years! Battery technology and the grid infrastructure aren't even close to replacing ICE vehicles for the average American. Maybe in a tiny country like Monaco sure, but not when you can drive 3000 miles and still be in the same country!
@@dundonrl Dude lots of people are doing cross country drives all over the U.S. with their Tesla cars. Go check here on youtube. There's a massive number of Tesla superchargers all over the U.S. and are well within the range of Tesla cars. You'll never run out of power plus the Tesla can tell you the location of chargers, the state of battery charge, the range and which charging stations you should stop to recharge. There's nothing to worry about that.
@@gerrycrisostomo6571 It's not just about that. Electric cars are great for acceleration, but all that weight of the batteries means the mclaren would absolutely smoke that Tesla on a circuit. Then you have the build quality, the sound. Drive them both through a tunnel and see who has the bigger grin on their face. And then there's the flip side of lower end electric cars vs low end ICE. ICE is cheaper and more convenient right now.
@@robwalker4653 That is the most ridiculous comment I have seen man LOL!. Watch this video of The Model S Plaid overtaking the Porsche, The McLaren P1 and the McLaren Senna within only a few hundred meters apart in a single lap. See who smokes who and you will be shocked.: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-voL7h5UuEag.html
This was an insane matchup. Probably some of, if not the fastest trap speeds ever. I love McLaren and especially Senna (please watch the movie), but I also love any Tesla car. The current Plaid is becoming quite the race reference.
The Race of the Century The Roadster Vs The Rimac 🤯🤯 Can't wait for the plaid to be unlocked tho wanna see the full power of the beast of a car silent but deadly.
"I'll just go when I hear his car" I'M DEAD. I have a Model Y performance being delivered next month and this makes me wonder if I should just pony up and go Model S Plaid.
WOW. I thought the McLaren would’ve had the roll win, even as a massive Tesla fanboy. Holy actual shit though. That’s absolutely insane. I know what my dream car is now…
@@flynndodsworth2693 They are cheaply made? Every Tesla made after 2019 has improved build quality. Teslas are engineering marvels on industrial levels requiring much less parts than the competition destroying every single car in their class. They are the fastest, safest, the most advanced in terms of technology, they have the highest range and the best charging infrastructure is theirs as well.
The scary thing is the plaid is limited atm the emotors are putting out 340hp each but are rated to 400hp each. Plus the "cancelled" plaid plus will be even better. Especially with the new 4680 cells in the car.
@@romansenger2322 Reported at the Tesla Plaid delivery event. Also, they are absolutely not the same as M3, the carbon-wrapped rotors are all new. 1020 hp is limited by the battery - and perhaps by tranction control (front/back power split).
@yabghus you do know cleaner to produce clean electricity centrally at power plant including coal vs individual less efficient car engines. Also you can put solar roof and charge your self.
@@fivepointeightnate yes we do. faster the better for drag racing. 8s for tri-motor roadster, 7s for quad roadster + SpaceX electric air thrusters Enjoy the 21st Century!
it's the free wheeling, induction motor in front that allows the Plaid to keep pumping out the horses at higher and higher speeds. A motor in the front with permanent magnets would provide drag when the motor was NOT being used to accelerate
Everyone talking about how fast the tesla is... but how bout them brakes. It was going faster, weighed a lot more, is a family sedan, and still slowed down faster than the carbon fiber supercar that costs at least 4x as much.
@@markhd3059 we know, the Tesla break would over heat because of a lot braking bla bla bla and in this video it only had to break just 3 to 5 times, happy now.
