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by numpad0 470 days ago
The problem here is that the Plaid is not the fastest car. On Nürburgring Nordschleife, GT-R (2013) is faster than the latest Plaid record(2023) by 6 seconds, top trim Taycan by 18 seconds, slower than the fastest on Wikipedia by 56 seconds, etc etc.

It's just not that fast. Most people here wouldn't know that, after hearing 2.1 seconds 0-60, "the fastest production EV", so on. No, Elon just never made that work. literally couldn't beat 10 years old car.

You can buy the cheapest R35 used, and theoretically faster on the ring than ANY Tesla.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nords...