cptnslo
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No this was def a previous generation. This was before they even had announced anything regarding the highland ludicrous. I will have to see if bandimere happened to post any photos from the t&t but this was Oct 11th of last year
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Model 3 Highland Performance/Plaid Speculation [Car announced 04.23.2024]
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Zcd1
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I'm presuming this is sarcasm, since the current M3P also has a 162 mph top speed....
I mean, it's not bad, but it's no actual improvement.
Also, no EV is likely to have any sort of top-speed bragging rights for quite some time, if ever...
cptnslo
Member
It actually wasn’t. The current MSLR has been cut back to 130 which is terrible given the fact that’s the average 1/4mi trap speed. My MS is a 22 so it still has the 145-149 top speed. I understand the difference between a performance model vs not but it’s like kneecapping a car
Seeing as it's sold as a "Long Range" and putting tyres on that help give more range at the expense of top speed it makes perfect sense. Efficiency matters more to most who don't buy the Performance models than being able to go over 130mph.
Seeing as it's sold as a "Long Range" and putting tyres on that help give more range at the expense of top speed it makes perfect sense. Efficiency matters more to most who don't buy the Performance models than being able to go over 130mph.
Not when the car limits the top speed to 130mph
Not checked but assume Tesla is just going for cheaper versions with lower top speed rating.
There was probably a contingent who felt 670hp and a quarter mile of 130 was plenty fast and didn't want to spend the extra $15k for what amounts to bragging rights.
Though I guess for Tesla, if the reduced top speed convinces a few people to go Plaid, that's still a net win for them.
Measurements on a real track would be what I consider to be valid. If a GPS and accelerometer based app must be used, I would want to see the average of the runs in both directions.
Knightshade
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But there's tons of actual testing showing Draggy results are within a couple hundreds of a second of the results from a real track.
So why, specifically, do you doubt them?
Because it's too easy to fake. Dragy will allow slopes to generate a valid result. And you can skew that further by having the slope steeper where you're trying to fudge the numbers. @mpgxsvcd seems to place a lot of his self worth in having a fast M3P. He's the only one putting out such ludicrous (pun intended) numbers on a supposedly stock M3P. Everyone else runs roughly what Tesla and the various magazines say it will get.
I have track slips for every single Dragy run as well. Would you like to see those too? I run the Dragy along side the Track Slips for every run.
Nope, I'm not interested in more faked numbers. I'm sure you'll magically find a slip of your M3P doing 2.7 while carrying a passenger one of these days.
You have no clue what you are talking about. You think that any negative slope at all would disqualify a run. Bless your heart.
Drag strips are specifically designed to allow down to -1% slope. The Dragy also allows down to -1% slope for that very reason.
You just keep spouting off things that you have no idea about.
And that makes it useless for an actual measurement. Of course you're going to throw the most optimistic conditions possible to please your ego and have a nicer looking number.
Even Tesla which uses every trick in the book to make their cars sound better than they are doesn't resort to quoting 0-60s downhill.
It is so obvious now that you literally don’t understand how any of this works. You don’t know how the magazines test. You don’t understand what is allowed and what isn’t.
I have shown exactly what the car can and can’t do and you just spout off whatever makes you feel better.
I know how magazines test. I know what is and isn't allowed. I also know that going downhill is cheating.
But hey, if it helps you sleep at night thinking your car is faster than every other model 3 performance or that you're so much better at pressing a gas pedal than everyone else, have at it.
cptnslo
Member
Gentlemen you both have equally large dicks can y’all take this private or something
Can we stop talking 0-60 ? This is not the most important metric for this car...
It isn't an app, it's a standalone unit that attaches to your dashboard that interfaces with an app. It shows if it's valid or not based on numerous factors. I've had runs that were connected to as many as 13 satellites show Invalid for not being connected to enough sattelites. Accuracy is is almost to the thousands.
