Will the recording include turbo spool and blowoff noises?
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While it is textbook RICE, I’m having trouble hatin’ on this, it doesn’t look that bad or that cheap.
They should, it would be awesome*. Telsa should take a page from Porsche’s playbook and have some lower production, high margin cars, I’d think it would help their profitability. I just configured a Model S performance, and only could find about $8K (holding aside the $6K full autonomous) of options on a 99K base…
I do like Captain Disillusion. My skills stop at still photography, video is too hard for me.
Take a deep breath. Go back to the beginning. The whole f’ing point of the original article was that you shouldn’t just ‘wing it’ for a Nurburgring track record.
Okay that’s a bit of a false equivalency. It’s one thing to have some camouflage on the pre-production version of the production car, vs. a ‘prototype’ that is unlikely to ever be sold to the public in that form.
I don’t disagree. Though I’m sure the version Porsche ran is exactly the version they will sell. I’d love to see Telsa actually sell that widebody, fat tired, wicker billed version to the public.[though I’m still against them stripping the interior. ]
While I agree with your point based on the picture in the article, the odds that the photo in the article was exposed and white balanced correctly and therefore actually represents what the car looks like in real life.... just about zero.
Yeah, this is what I’m trying to understand, is it a full lap or just BTG. Is it BTG timing, somehow projected up to a full lap?
I think the point is that production car lap records are set with production cars using the available production car parts.
His argument for “take the time and do it right” is a load of BS.
Seriously: I would like to know how it drives compared to the Panamera Turbo S e-hybrid, compared to a Panamera Turbo. How noticeable is the extra weight on the two Turbo S’s?
Keep dreaming. Anything Porsche Turbo S will only have 4 seats.
it’s going to have no real audience.
I know, I know, but it’s a Jalopnik thing, it ranks somewhere in the list of :
You could be right, we’ll see. But I’ve seen no evidence to guess that the prices on the electric versions won’t be exactly the same as the prices on their gasoline equivalents. In which case the electric equivalent of a 2WD Panamera, with MSRP around $87K (sells for about $82K) with some options adding another $5-10K…
Starring you because I think this would be an interesting story to pursue. But man there is some idiocy in the forum you link to, which basically translates as “I though the all electric version of a $200K car would be priced at $99K”. Dumb. Though in there defense it is a bit unusual that Porsche started with the…
Seriously, where is the anti-Tesla bias? Or are you confounding Elon with Tesla?