The plaid Roadster will be far lighter and will wear some of the most advanced tires ever fitted to a road-going car. These tires have been designed to both get traction to propel this 5,000lb car to 60 from a standing stop in less than two seconds and also not come apart at well over 250mph. They will end up looking like a race slick with small groves carved in for minimal rain dissipation. Do you honestly think that a blocky A/T tire that gives some 50% (or more) of actual contact patch will somehow propel a vehicle that is going to weigh much, much, MUCH more to 60mph in a only a second longer? Ain't gonna happen. All of these stats makes sense on a car because you can fit super grippy tires and not have it look out of place. I can tell you that with a Supercharged Tacoma traction was a serious issue in all conditions under only part throttle and we're not talking anywhere near the performance numbers this beast is projecting.
Exactly. I've owned high performance cars and I've owned capable offroad vehicles. Those two worlds rarely blend seamlessly in terms of tires and I personally feel it's one of the most underrated & under discussed aspects of the Cybertruck. It's going to take some serious tire engineering to even come close to most of those specs and still offer a look anywhere near that aggressive. To propel a 6,500lb truck (total guess & likely more based on cold-rolled steel being the chief building material & the likely double stacked battery packs to attain all of these figures) to 60mph from a standing stop is going to take what amounts to a racing slick with some aggressive looking sidewalls purely for cosmetics. No way will a capable A/T get regular 0-60 blasts under 3 seconds. Just look at the cars that, prior to Tesla, even approached 4 seconds 0-60 and the types of tires they wore in order to do it.
Fast for a full-size diesel truck is in the 5-second range. One of the faster vehicles from 0-60 I've owned was a GMC Typhoon that did 0-60 in the low 3's and the tires it took to do that even with AWD were engineered entirely for street stickiness. If I threw an A/T on that same setup it would have sat and boiled those tires w/o putting much energy into forward momentum.
