I have to say, this thread has hit home for me. The P85D is the launch king and would take my "fun" car off the line everyday and twice on Sunday. You combine full torque at 0 rpm with AWD and a computer that matches the max power per wheel short of wheel spin, I wouldn't bet against it against anything street legal 0-30 mph. However when traction is no longer an issue and the competing ICE has enough rpm to produce good power, then it becomes the simple power to weight ratio. 4936 lbs being propelled by 691 hp works out to 7.14 lbs per hp, impressive but won't be winning against my little Track-T in a 1/4 mile. Yes it will nail me off the line but I will reel him in before the traps. You might ask why I'm confident in saying this? Easy, while my Track-T only has 526 hp from a 427, it weighs 1790 lbs, which is 3146 lbs less and instead of
7.14 lbs per hp, it is
3.40 lbs per hp. Besides it runs a 9.7 in the 1/4.
And it is a sleeper as you can see from this picture, a full engine cover that is so narrow most folks assume a 2.3 L Pinto engine and the exhaust is hidden.
This is about the only time I can romp it, a freeway on ramp merging onto a steep uphill grade. About 2 seconds of full throttle in 2nd gear, then I had to decide 3rd or 4th. Since that 2 seconds had me go from 40 mph to 80 mph, I just skipped 3rd and allowed it to slow a bit in 4th.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a P85D instead of my CTS-V (and boy did I get static for saying that on the V Forum), but I bought the V new in 2011, which predates the Supercharger stations and the dual motor. I feel confident that electric is the way of the future and my CTS-V will be a throw back to another era. I've had the V for 4 years now and have just 8000 miles on it.
