SPEAKER 1: What are we doing here?
We're going to drag race, right?
SPEAKER 2: Yeah.
I can't wait.
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SPEAKER 1: This one is for all the EV SUV marbles,
because the Tesla Model Y has beaten almost everything we've
put it up against.
And now the one that Ford built, pretty
much to compete with this exact vehicle,
is sitting right next to me.
Ryan's in it.
And we're going to go for a quarter mile Drag Race.
The 0 to 60 quoted times on these cars are very similar.
The prices are within like $1,000 of each other.
But the thing that I'm happy about
is my vehicle weighs considerably less
than yours, doesn't it Ryan.
SPEAKER 2: It's true.
But what we know about the Mustang Mach-E GT Performance,
is that there's 480 horsepower, 634 pound feet of torque.
What we don't know about the Model Y performance
is its exact figures because Tesla doesn't put them out.
But we have estimates.
We think that car's around 450 horse, around 500 pound feet,
and around a whole lot less of both compared to this.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah but 500 pounds is a pretty good diet
to go on before a race.
So, I mean, I guess we're just going
to have to press the go pedals and find out.
This is going to be the quietest drag race in all of history.
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SPEAKER 2: OK.
Let's get this baby ready to launch.
It's very complicated.
First, you put the car in unbridled mode.
Not unbridled extend.
That is for lap times over a longer period of time.
Instead, we want the peak performance
in short bursts for this particular test.
And then you don't do anything.
You hit the throttle.
That's it.
OK.
Let's go.
SPEAKER 1: So essentially there's
not much of a drag race procedure in this car.
There are two acceleration modes.
When you go into the acceleration screen on the car.
It is driving, chill or sport.
I'm going to put it in sport.
Steering mode in sport.
And that's about it.
There's no ludicrous in this one.
It's not a Model S. You just put your right foot down and hope
for the best.
SPEAKER 3: All right, I'm going to count down.
Drivers race in three.
SPEAKER 2: Here we go.
SPEAKER 3: Two.
SPEAKER 2: Let's do this.
SPEAKER 1: Good to be in drive.
SPEAKER 3: One.
Go.
SPEAKER 1: You got me off the line.
You got me off the line.
I'm reeling him in though.
SPEAKER 2: I had him at first.
SPEAKER 1: I'm reeling him in.
SPEAKER 2: Ah, he's going to take it.
SPEAKER 1: I'm passing him.
Yes.
Less weight.
SPEAKER 2: Dang it.
SPEAKER 1: More power, whoa.
There we go.
SPEAKER 2: I had him.
SPEAKER 1: Reeled you in there, buddy.
You got me off the line.
SPEAKER 2: Think all that weight on the front
helps, but your lack of weight helps as we keep going.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah.
I mean, basically, after a couple hundred feet,
I just started reeling you in.
And it's-- neither one of these has multiple speeds
in the transmission.
You just have to put your foot on the floor and keep it in it.
SPEAKER 2: Yeah.
I could see it coming, and there was absolutely nothing
I could do about it.
SPEAKER 1: All right.
Well let's see if it was just a reaction time thing.
I might have been behind you a little bit
on the reaction time.
Let's go again.
You want to see if you can beat it, this time?
SPEAKER 2: I do.
You're not saying I was cheating, are you?
SPEAKER 1: No, I'm saying I was slow off the line.
SPEAKER 2: Oh, OK.
In that case, it's fine.
SPEAKER 1: So that quarter mile run ate up
about five miles of juice.
I feel like the performance in the Tesla's
going to be fine, this time.
I want to beat him off the line, but man
this thing weighing 500 pounds less, it really, it just--
0 to 60 is similar between these two cars,
but the speed the Tesla is going at the end is much higher.
I mean, I'm gapping him.
Take him to Gapplebee's.
SPEAKER 2: So it looks like that quarter mile
and back took two percentage points off of the battery.
We'll see if that affects things as we
go on, as we do our second run, our third run.
But for right now, that's looking pretty good.
2%, though, on one run, that's pretty wild.
And that was with unbridled, the sportiest mode in the race,
obviously.
And then coming back in whisper, the least sporty mode,
you still lose 2%.
Probably even worse if you do it unbridled both ways.
But anyway, here's a trick I was going to tell you about.
I'm going to turn traction off.
I think he'll probably still reel me in,
but we're going to try it anyway.
Yeah, I'm going to do it.
Why not?
Let's see what happens.
SPEAKER 3: Drivers race in three.
SPEAKER 2: Race two, baby.
SPEAKER 3: Two.
One.
Go.
SPEAKER 1: Oh, he beat me off the white, again.
SPEAKER 2: Electric horse, let's go.
SPEAKER 1: Oh I want to reel him in.
Come on.
SPEAKER 2: Oh, I got a bigger lead this time.
SPEAKER 1: Come on.
SPEAKER 2: He's coming.
SPEAKER 1: Oh, here it is.
Here it is.
I see you, buddy.
I see you.
Took him to Gapplebee's.
Oh, that's a good feeling right there, is what that is.
SPEAKER 2: I think traction off helped.
Unless it was another timing issue.
SPEAKER 1: Hoo, you got me off the line even worse that time,
man.
SPEAKER 2: I can't tell, at all, if that's what it is.
But if you think it is, I'll take it.
SPEAKER 1: Your reaction time was either better or cheating.
But I mean, I think we could even it out with a roll race.
If we're both just going 30 side by side and
see which one leads it out.
What do you think?
SPEAKER 2: For sure.
I know this thing definitely slams my head
into the back of the seats, every time
I do it, around 30 or so.
So I like my chances a lot better.
SPEAKER 1: All right.
We'll see.
I mean it seems like, at higher speeds, this one just, I mean,
just eats the lunch of the Ford.
i really like that Mach-E. It's really fun to drive.
But I also hate losing, equally as much as I like that Ford.
SPEAKER 2: Dude, there's no question.
The Model Y just pulls.
Just pulls and pulls and pulls and pulls.
SPEAKER 1: I mean you almost had a full car length on me
in the beginning.
And then by the end it was a reverse of that story.
It's-- how does it feel getting taken to Gapplebee's?
SPEAKER 2: We're bringing out the puns now?
SPEAKER 1: Look man, this is what I do.
I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
SPEAKER 2: OK.
SPEAKER 1: Now we're going to do a roll race.
So that means we will line up here, get to a predetermined
speed, and then once we get to the cones we'll start racing.
We're not doing it from a launch.
I think the results are pretty much going to be the same.
All right, Ryan, let's start rolling.
What do you say, 30 miles an hour?
SPEAKER 2: 30 is the sweet spot for me, so let's do it.
SPEAKER 1: Let's go.
SPEAKER 2: I'm in a car that looks cooler than his.
I'm in a car that's more comfortable than his.
I'm in a car with more power and more torque,
and none of that matters right now.
The only thing that matters is that the Tesla is lighter.
And that it does not stop pulling, basically
no matter what.
That's extremely frustrating.
SPEAKER 1: OK get up to--
SPEAKER 2: Getting up to 30.
Around the corner now.
We're side by side.
Up to the start.
SPEAKER 1: Side by side, here.
SPEAKER 2: Headed to the cone.
SPEAKER 1: About to cross the cones.
Three, two, one.
BOTH: Go.
SPEAKER 2: Oh, you got me that time.
SPEAKER 1: I got him on that one.
I got him on that one.
I might have beat him to the cones, but ssh.
SPEAKER 2: Travis got me on the jump.
And I'm not really in that thing in.
No way.
SPEAKER 1: Woo.
That's it.
That's pretty definitive.
SPEAKER 2: 103 at the finish.
Pretty fast.
Does not feel fast at all, in this.
There's basically no difference.
That's the weird thing about EVs.
SPEAKER 1: That was pretty good.
It's pretty good.
SPEAKER 2: You definitely got me at that time.
Not that it mattered very much, but you definitely did.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, I was looking over.
I didn't want to miss the start on that one, didn't want
to be sleeping on the launch.
But, I mean, it's incredible.
These two are so similarly priced and built, but they--
I don't know, they just they feel different
from a performance standpoint.
SPEAKER 2: Yeah, the Model Y just
feels visceral and almost violent compared to this.
It's much more, I don't know what the word, maybe civilized,
maybe refined, whatever.
But it doesn't feel like I'm getting a full 634 pound
feet of torque.
And in that, it feels like you're getting more than
what you're expecting.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, I mean it's close, but only
for a little while.
You get so much out of it when you put your foot down.
It really, it feels good at the beginning,
but it feels even better at the end.
SPEAKER 2: Hey, I don't know about you.
I hit 103 at the finish, and it feels like 55, 60 maybe.
It's the weird thing about EVs.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, I feel like if I was in a rickety junk box,
like my personal race car, then I
would feel like we were going much, much faster.
But this is one of the quietest, and probably
least entertaining to watch, drag races you could find.
Well, the Tesla did it, again.
At the lab, it beat the Mach-E to 60 miles an hour
by just 1/10 of a second.
But down at the other end, the difference is much larger.
In the quarter mile, the Tesla is almost a second faster.
And it's trap speed is 13 miles an hour higher.
That's a huge difference.
Some of that comes down to the Ford's extra weight, sure.
But some of it also comes down to the fact
that the Mach-E only gets full power for the first five
seconds.
Yep, that's right.
After 5 seconds, you don't get 480 horses
and 630 pound feet of torque.
The Ford has to throttle it back to keep things cool.
So while the 0 to 60 times are similar, down at finish line,
things are very different.
Well that was fun.
The Tesla isn't undefeated.
But it has another one in the kill column.
I really like that Mach-E GT, and it's fun to drive.
But boy, this Model Y sure is fast.
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