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444 horsepower 48 grand model 3
performance this is the car but Tesla
boss Elon Musk boasted was quicker than
a bmw m3 with better handling the car
that will beat anything in its class on
the track that is quite some claim Elon
time then Fred
against the ultimate fire saloons from
Mercedes AMG the c63 s from Alfa Romeo
the Julia QV
and of course from BMW the m3 first up a
drag race with a difference we're so
used to Tesla's being fast in a straight
line now
but in my experience electric cars are
really quick off the line but above 100
they tend to get caught by piston engine
cars so I've made the drag race a bit
longer
half a mile twice the normal distance
and when outside the usual Tesla
stomping ground
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the line 60 takes 3.2 seconds
they're not closing it I'm still pulling
away
oh no the birds coming back at me
1:30 the votes coming back a very very
calm
oh just got me at the end oh so it's a
win for petrol but only just an only
north of a hundred and twenty let's not
forget in the real world even the
fastest saloon wouldn't see which way
the Tesla went this is the traffic light
King this thing
it's an ak-47 disguised as a butter
knife
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over the hive of nurses in possibly the
coolest loads of ever made
hundred seventy hoes party weighs just
over half a ton it's seriously seriously
positive
the hard line is I totally got what I
did
the fe3c
obviously if you told me that one day I
get to even sit in this thing
I've never saved Jamie but timing it
but that wasn't all the 79 had to give
because Lotus said I could drive one lap
just one lap with the cars revolutionary
vacuum inducing skirts all the way down
full ground effect mode
still it stopped the Stutz I thought
that I can happen
you can feel the dolls even at medium
speeds it's just so our town
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let's say the fastest corner apple with
the skirts down
so to eat quick man
and now there's this 600 LT which might
be 65,000 pounds cheaper than the bestir
I'm not sure at 65,000 pounds less car
I reckon this could be very close
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by a woman
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180 over the line okay it's quicker but
it's not my day it's not nine days
and we know he's got more reliably than
me I'm not convinced at all
Rory just a gray wig no drips machine
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entertain
special car you don't come across these
very often this is the strid alley yes
this is a road
we're ready do you want to get it on the
try
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what a little thing
naught to 60 takes just over three
seconds flat out it'll do 174 miles an
hour
but in this badali it's how eager it is
to get there that really gets your blood
pumping oh you put on makeup straight
away
a little racing car with a number plate
god but great so happy too and that's
because the sir dolly is light really
light dallara has built the stradale
almost entirely of carbon fiber the
skeleton and bodywork a carbon fiber
most of the interior even the cup holder
all in this car tips the scales at a
racecar rivaling 900 kilos and the
motorsport know-how doesn't end there
you know what separates proper rates
cars from just a regular faster it's not
power its downforce
this car it's all about the downforce
flatout the strategy makes a mighty 800
kilos of the stuff massive scoops behind
the wheel that enormous rear wing there
manipulating the airflow over the car to
literally stick it to the surface of the
track and that means it can do this
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that's progress
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you can feel
it's like a paper thumb thing is so sure
says that this will produce lateral
forces of to G's racecar deport
Sakana g-force but makes you feel like
your brains about to leak out of your
ears
oh yes
oh did I hear you go oh well look it
goes well I'm not gonna deny that let's
just take a bit of time knock yourself
out
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so let's just start with the basics and
talk of the motive is grave BMW make a
really good engine at the moment but you
know what from the moment I got in it it
sounded like a BMW
really keep their power steering pumps
linear all the way through to fill up
with a lock like that about why this
feels to me
so what whole ones bothered a very that
one's for them it's not a Toyota
what does the Toyota feel like Chris
from the inside it would have a really
crazy interior you have a 2jz up front
making hissing and washing noises it
sound turbocharged do you know what
honey it might be a little bit worse as
a car but it would wreak of style
I just think it's a missed opportunity
you know the particulars it's like
finding out that Charles Dickens wants
to write the best book ever and he
phones up Emily Bronte and says can you
do this and then just send me the
manuscript afterwards yes for um
can you imagine Charles Dickens and
Emily Bronson writing a book together
it's a best-seller Chris
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oh I don't know it's perfectly good but
it or no books no books is it's a good
sports car yes God no I think there
might still be a few milli on the robber
knock yourself oh go do some wars kids
loving sick
you
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