it's a beautiful day here at south georgia motorsports park scott's gonna be driving
the machi gt performance edition i'm gonna be driving the very slow lead foot gray gt350
scott where how do you think it's gonna go i'm not really sure uh there's no burnouts right uh
there's no really warming up of the motor although i think it's warming up the batteries right now
yes it is plugged in and it doesn't make any noise right but uh no it's super cool uh we're
very thankful we've had uh the base version at our shop for a week now developed strut tower brace
some front rear sway bars and uh now we're gonna take it down the drag strip uh the instant torque
i'm telling people it's like an oversized golf cart it's got all these super creature comforts
super quiet but that instant torque and you know i guess if you like to go fast it doesn't matter how
you go fast i mean the maki gt performance has the equivalent of 634 foot-pounds of torque all right
sounds like a small block four so but it doesn't sound like it but got the torque of one so uh
yeah let's go uh run these two i think we're gonna do two passes back to back and see uh
see who ends up on top ford uh gt350 versus maki gt so let's go man find out how this goes
this got back from the track breaking down the numbers we were only able to run these two cars
once uh and we had to make it count obviously scott how do you think the machi did he he's
smiling already because he got me right ah no kudos to chris the best win a driver can get a
whole shot victory um i was laid on the tree with this you think electric motors instant
torque which it has when we go to the video in a minute you're going to see it left the gt350
on the starting line but uh in the unbridled mode if you don't have the vehicle at a full
stop it's going to actually want to keep rolling no matter what and uh instead of going right
on the tree stood on the brakes was late on the light but uh it was a good old drag race i mean
i was literally looking out the window waiting for him to fly by because you look at the front
half of this car and like we kind of had mentioned it's like in a mid 11 second car i think it went
a 7 48 in the eighth mile uh consistent one eight short times even at only like 72 battery life but
it was fun it got out on you like we thought i was hoping he was gonna miss a gear he didn't
and uh that gt350 came flying right by us so tell us more about the data yeah i mean looking
at the numbers um it was a one eight sixty foot even even i mean did you even break torque it
or were you just mad on the gas no um the owner was said you don't really even want to do that
you want to just kind of hold it there and just stab the gas so it's crazy and a 187 obviously
that throws you back in your seat with that 634 uh pound-feet of torque the eighth came out to
785 at 87 mile an hour which is a super respectful and definitely an 11 second quarter for most cars
but it kind of fell down and i and we'll throw it into the data in a second so you could see
um on the back half 350 you know chased it down because that maki kind of eased back but uh at 12
56 100 100 miles an hour um versus 219 had trouble getting out of the hole in the 350
not so much torque down low but 115 mile an hour with the 1260. now i may have gotten across the
finish line first but the maki actually did have a faster et with a 1256 and i believe he ran a 1255
again later yeah 1255 was actually against the blue standard one where they both went identical
101s which is so weird because as drag racers you're always looking at the data the numbers what
it means how much horsepower are we making what's our net potential et uh it's wild that both the
standard and the gt version both cross the stripes at 101 uh but what we're told is that the standard
model actually allows it to gain speed the entire way down the track where this thing only picked up
13 and 14 miles an hour on the back half which is really slow and i guess it only really allows you
to go full throttle for about five seconds so uh ford if you're out there and you're listening we
want all the torque let us run it out the back door i mean that would be incredible i mean
maybe it's something with the servos or the motors getting hot but hey this is the first year right
for one of these cars and as with anything once the aftermarket uncodes some things or
ford just you know releases the hammer and lets this thing run out the back door i mean
it's cool i mean don't get me wrong you drive it around it does not feel like a 12
and a half second car it's about 55. it it feels like an animal down low and kudos like i said to
ford i mean this technology is here whether everybody's on board or not but it is it's
super cool it's a different feeling super quiet and uh i i go back to the 2018 the silver car
when we were first out there testing it new body style new gen 3. everybody's kind of looking at it
you couldn't keep people out of this car you know let alone around it the whole time i mean it was
like no jump inside you know oh it's running yeah it's running we're keeping the batteries warm and
stuff like that so uh super cool uh technology and uh can't wait to play around with it some
more that's for sure yeah there's absolutely no doubt it definitely was a it was a close race
so are you ready to dump the 350 for the the torque monster electric power maki or what not
quite not quite i mean at the end of the day the maki is is the future electric vehicles are coming
whether we like it or not um and personally i'm a huge fan that thing is absolutely insane
uh but the ice engine is is going nowhere at the end of the day s650 is on the horizon we've seen
those spy photos hybrid all-wheel drive all these different things are getting thrown around about
the next body style mustang and i don't know if i can just ditch it all for all electric yet but
i'm with you as much as i love the torque you can't beat the sound of one of those uh
let's face it you know it's great though right it's got that good balance so uh it's kind of
like with the ecoboost and the five liter i think there's different segments for everything and
it'll be fun and just know that whatever the future may hold uh
we're going to be here to bring it to you and support it in the aftermarket all right
before we wrap this thing up let's look over the video footage of these two going down the track
all right staged them let's see okay have trouble launching getting down the track monster buses
buses i'm on the way to capitol but here comes the freight train behind me it is the gt350
and at the end of the day it is a top-end car i mean um you could expect that 8250 rpm to do its
job at the beginning of the track especially when you're limited to five seconds of full throttle
on this thing but what's wild is is you weighed your car in at like thirty seven hundred pounds
after the pass right and this weighed in at five thousand and thirty pounds yet it's still able
to pull the whole shot on them but uh it just goes to showing that all that electric power
that instant torque i mean a one eight sixty foot and a five thousand pound vehicle that's insane
it's really cool on street tires you know it's not like it's you know some of those
tesla's out there on full slicks and everything doing crazy stuff i mean
we even jacked the air pressure up to 40 pounds to try to get a little bit more roll out but
definitely some good information here i mean just putting these two vehicles against each
other they're definitely relatively equally matched when it comes down the quarter mile
the maki now let's be honest if scott was able to get out of the hole and get a little bit better of
a reaction time he would have been faster than me no doubt i would not have been able to chase
him down at the end of the day his et was faster than mine so um i mean i just wish we had more
time right i mean we went out there and we were only made to make three passes the entire time
two in this and of course we had to knock the dust off the silver car but it would have been cool to
have us go three passes because you would have had one of those you know photo finishes of us going
across this finish line just about the same time so two completely different ways to make power and
obviously uh if it was an eighth mile it wouldn't even be a race that's for sure
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