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It also depends on how you define "Worlds fastest car" While there is no doubt this is a fast car and that time is a stonking 0-60 time. I am lead to believe it can't complete a full flat out lap of the Nurburgring as constant high speed/full throttle use heats up the battery to the point where performance has to be limited.

So while it will be great to "hoon about" in and should be a win at the traffic light gran prix there are probably much better track day cars.

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semi-extrinsic|9 years ago

> It also depends on how you define "Worlds fastest car"

... and here they defined it so the P100D is the fastest. Welcome to the tautology club.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia has three cars above the P100D on its quickest 0-60 list: the Porsche 918, the LaFerrari, and the Bugatti Veyron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

Note also that Tesla has also been called a bit "optimistic" with their 0-60 times as compared to other manufacturers (e.g. by Top Gear when testing P90D against Audi RS6 this year).

mikeash|9 years ago

Wikipedia still shows the old 0-60 time for the P100D. At 2.4 seconds, it will be ahead of the Veyron, even with the LaFerrari, and behind the 918.

And Tesla only compares with cars currently in production. The LaFerrari and 918 are not.

Definitely some definitional tweaking to get the "right answer," but not quite a tautology.

nickpinkston|9 years ago

The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club

tcpekin|9 years ago

Car and Driver just compared another 20 or so cars at their resident Lightning Lap track a few months ago, including a Tesla. The Tesla was not fast, approx. 30 sec slower on a track that fast cars were finishing in the 2:45 range.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/tesla-model-s-p85d-at-l...

http://www.caranddriver.com/flipbook/lightning-lap-2016-ever...

Viper007Bond|9 years ago

Acceleration is also relatively poor above about 100 MPH. It's an amazing beast, but yes certainly a traffic light car no sports car.

tracker1|9 years ago

The fact is anything below 5 seconds 0-60 is a damned speedy car that you really won't get to push in day to day driving... As it is, I've been in a few Model S's and they are fun. I'll keep my Scat Pack Challenger though, far less expensive, only a second lower, and a higher top speed. Not to mention looking quite a bit cooler imho.