Tesla Plaid What are your Thoughts?
you know what i mean.
Even in Autocross a low power car like BRZ I just feels like Im missing out on half the fun waiting between elements. Doesnt need to be huge power, but enough that some throttle modulation is needed at least. I thought S2000 was pretty solid for that where you couldnt just romp on exit and had to feel it.
No disconnect I get building a drag car to go fast in a straight line. It's just the way EV's do it. It would be like if humans could have babies without having sex. I just don't see the passion behind EV's but if others can, my hats off to them. I mean they make no sounds. BORINGGG!
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This is like a horses vs. automobiles or a swords vs guns type of argument. Each experience has its place in time, and newer experiences don't obsolete older experiences. I'm sure the experience of flying a modern fighter aircraft is absolutely unrecognizable to a WW1 fighter pilot. That doesn't take anything away from the absolute bat**** crazy experience of WW1 dogfighting. At the same time, the experience of flying a modern fighter must be one of the most intense a person could have.
The people fighting the idea of performance EVs is the same tired conversation as performance automatics. Enthusiasts didn't like them, but they were faster, and now the fastest Corvette is one with a torque converter. The performance car market rewards performance, especially when it's easier to access that performance. All the soul talk in the world doesn't end up changing the outcome too much.
The plaid is a good-to-great car. I think of it as a normal model S, which is a good large (maybe midsize by today's standards) luxury hatchback. It just so happens to absolutely destroy other cars in a straight line with immense and instant torque / power. And at least pretends to corner well. Kind of reminds me of the mission statement of a RS7.
Like all other Teslas it's ridiculously underbraked which most honest reviewers mention. Even the model 3/Y performance is ridiculously underbraked. These are the only cars I know from the factory with way more power than brakes. It can actually fade the brakes in one Canyon run....as a bone stock car. Otherwise, as long as you don't think of it as a Nurburgring carver, or go searching for a specific idea of soul in it, the car does its job very well. If it makes you feel better you can soul search in any other car as you watch a Plaid pull bus lengths on you.
The plaid is a good-to-great car. I think of it as a normal model S, which is a good large (maybe midsize by today's standards) luxury hatchback. It just so happens to absolutely destroy other cars in a straight line with immense and instant torque / power. And at least pretends to corner well. Kind of reminds me of the mission statement of a RS7.
Like all other Teslas it's ridiculously underbraked which most honest reviewers mention. Even the model 3/Y performance is ridiculously underbraked. These are the only cars I know from the factory with way more power than brakes. It can actually fade the brakes in one Canyon run....as a bone stock car. Otherwise, as long as you don't think of it as a Nurburgring carver, or go searching for a specific idea of soul in it, the car does its job very well. If it makes you feel better you can soul search in any other car as you watch a Plaid pull bus lengths on you.
The one positive aspect of the M3P braking is that I have yet to experience ICE mode even in crazy off camber laterally loaded panic braking. It handles that situation just as well as the Evo where do the same thing in a lot of newer cars and you suddenly lose all braking.
The one positive aspect of the M3P braking is that I have yet to experience ICE mode even in crazy off camber laterally loaded panic braking. It handles that situation just as well as the Evo where do the same thing in a lot of newer cars and you suddenly lose all braking.
I guess I haven't driven any new enough cars to know that's a thing now. Something like that did happen to MPP though when they were developing the Plaid for the track. Probably one of the mods they did made it happen.
Yeah, I remember that and it seems crazy sketchy when it would just lock up what seemed like 1 tire and snap when braking straight. I dont think we ever learned what caused those issues did we?
Pretty sure he figured it out but he didn't end up saying how. They've already moved on to bigger rotors/track pads and haven't talked about this happening again.
This guy thinks that the Plaid is even faster than what tesla states and open to future enhanced performance software.
its very exciting instantly and silently you hit 3 digits just trying to overtake someone on the highway from 65.
i remember in my 8 the open exhaust sounded like a freight train when passing cars, i think i got tired of that **** and prefer silence with crazy power without added attention.
its very exciting instantly and silently you hit 3 digits just trying to overtake someone on the highway from 65.
i remember in my 8 the open exhaust sounded like a freight train when passing cars, i think i got tired of that **** and prefer silence with crazy power without added attention.
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