I’d put this car against almost anything that can carry 4 people and this much gear (yes, those are golf clubs and that blue bag is a stroller
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Agree with this 100%. I do miss the sound of the boxer engine and rolling through the gears in my WRX but is there no car that I have found that combines performance, efficiency, and practicality like the P3D.
It is completely docile in daily driving when you want it to be... smooth, comfortable, and responsive. I have my golf clubs and pull cart in the trunk, two tennis rackets, a volleyball, a basketball, and a skateboard in the frunk right now with room to spare. I can take my wife, my kid, and a couple of my kids friends to the park with a cooler in the back, some scooters, and whatever other gear we have with no problem. And it costs 1/3 to 1/4 as much to power as a comparable gas car.
But if I want to drive fast it will hang with anything. It owns almost anything at a stop light and is extremely fast in the 1/4 mile. I rolled up to Virginia Motorsports Park and ran 11.6@118 all night on 20" rims with a trunk full of crap and a child seat in the back. Beat Hemi Challengers, Chargers, Mustangs, Corvettes, M3s, AMGs, all night long. Only car that got me was a modified 911 turbo that ran 10.6@125. As others have demonstrated, it can also be a very good autocross or short track car though tracking it does require some extra planning to keep your charge level high enough.
I recently put MPP coilovers, rear camber arms, and some other parts on my P3D- and now it handles amazing too. I drove it back to back with my friends Ferrari 458 Italia and it did not feel slow in the straight or in the corners. That Ferrari has arguably the greatest NA V8 ever made, and sounded amazing, but my car has better throttle response and nothing exits a corner like the P3D. The P3D really is an amazing automobile it would be hard for me to drive anything else at this point despite the nostalgia I do feel for ICE sport compacts with manual transmissions.