The irony of Jalopnik pointing out Porsche’s spelling error is delicious.
The irony of Jalopnik pointing out Porsche’s spelling error is delicious.
People are fans of other massive pieces of shit so this should come as zero surprise to anyone.
Saw this a couple days ago. The best part of the video is easily Jason’s illustrations of the “Cybertruck” and “911" in his diagrams.
Well now I’m just getting curious about how the various Porsches would actually perform in this test. Someone send me *all the Porsches* and I’ll do all the testing on my end. Because I’m just a stand-up guy like that.
In case you didn’t know this, Porsche offers a selection of 3 different tires as original factory equipment for the 911 Dakar, one of which is a Pirelli P Zero Winter.
Stock tires. But let’s not mention that the Porsche is AWD/PDK, because transparency is only for losers, amirite?
Not that Tesla is the only one guilty of this sort of nonsense. I remember for years numerous auto manufacturers with quickish cars would brag about how their car was “faster than a Porsche.” Of course, they were referring to the base model, 201 Hp Boxster that managed a 0 - 60 time of just under 7 seconds, and not…
to be fair, an extremely specific situational test that’s meaningless except for bragging rights is prime marketing to the typical cyberruck buyer
Musk caught lying?
What blew me away most about the video is that people were actually cheering Musk when he made this claim. Not because it was misleading and totally bogus, but how can anybody still be a fan of the guy after all of the bullshit he has said and done?
It was an impressive achievement dulled only by Moron Musk’s need to run his mouth so he can be fellated by his mouth-breathing acolytes on TwiX.
Erin pretty well covered the biggest point of this, though.
Porsche needs to do an equivalent stunt where they race a Cybertruck against one of their cars, only... there’s snow on the ground.
But now we’re talking about how they faked it instead of the impressive feat because they couldn’t help themselves but lie!
What’s dumb is that it needlessly takes away from something that is still ridiculously impressive. I’m not an Elon stan, the guy’s an idiot. And other than forcing it to happen, likely had nothing to do with the engineering of this thing. But it’s still an electric truck towing a Porsche and beating another Porsche (su…
We already knew this, no? People were commenting on the original article about this stunt that the claimed length of the race was a lie. Granted, we aren’t Jason from Engineering Explained, but I think it’s been pretty much established for a while now that this particular claim about the Cybertruck was man-child…
I’m going to really push your “no judgements” proviso.
First, it’s “judgments”.
Second, I have a 2002 manual Toyota Echo that I got for literally free and I’ve put more than 20,000 miles on it in the past year. After years of VW ownership, I’m in awe of its craptastic and tiny form that consistently runs and starts…
There was an entire game show with this premise - Bumper Stumpers. It was fantastic.
As they are forcing us into the office three days a week, and I joined when a commute was not a thing, my commute is now part of my work day - so Teams being considerably more functional on Android Auto is going to be a huge plus.
If they want to talk during my commute, then they can pay me for my commute.