DayTripping
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We have no idea how they time that. I've never seen an internal timer like these that are accurate. Just for the heck of it I went out and ran a run in my Plaid. I didn't do anything special. I was about 70% SoC, no launch mode, no pre-heating the pack, nothing. Just like I did the runs in another thread with my R1T. Just like most any day I'd be daily driving my vehicles.There's a lot of evidence that the Gen 2's extra torque launches it harder with notably faster 0-60 times.
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I guarantee you that even in that state, it will launch harder than the Tri or Quad R1 anything. I have Pilot Sports with 295s at all 4 corners. I didn't even hit 1.18 g's at launch. Maybe a bit above 1.1 g's. I still ran a 2.47 on a random street. So, I find the claimed 1.18 highly suspect from the built-in instrument. I am still not buying the Tri is massively quicker than Gen1 quad once rolling. Maybe it is, but I'd have too see independent numbers from an average one on the street. I like to see a run of a Tri without launch mode to make it an apples to apples to comparison. Or if they get launch mode on the G1 trucks.
Just for grins, I ran 45-65 runs on the Plaid with less than ideal circumstances and a lot of wheelspin. To recap, here are the numbers I've captured for my R1T, CB CT, G2 quad. This was the metric that MotorTrend showed how tremendously quick the new Quad is in their what I believe to be a "Puff Piece" at this point. It should have been under ideal circumstances, whereas my truck was the old run what you brung, not super high SoC (70%) and on my Goodyear AT's, and bunch of stuff in the truck so at least 500 pounds of payload on a random street. It wasn't warm out either so surfaces definitely had less traction.
45-65 mph times (All #'s except my truck came from Motor Trend)
My G1 R1T 70% SoC - 1.53 (In the 1.4's is easily doable with a higher SoC, more traction, more street oriented tires and less junk in the trunk), MT ran it in 1.5
DPM R1T - 1.8
CB CT - 1.1
DM CT - 1.7
G2 Quad - 1.2
G2 Tri - TBD (obviously slower than G2 quad)
S Plaid - 0.9 (severely traction limited, on the street 70% SoC, no preheating, launch, etc.)
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