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  • Wow, those fucker's can't corner for their life.

  • Also, I would love to see the end of the drag race. We only know that Tesla has a better acceleration, but that's not surprising.

  • Some people seem to don't understand the goal of it. It's to show that the electric motor of Tesla is good enought to be compared with other sport cars. Ok, it's still not perfect, but you must admit it's an awesome car!

  • I would not change the 1992 celica for any of these cars

  • This guy says the same thing again and again.

  • Tesla model s. Nuf said

  • my dad is getting the tesla

  • Tesla is so small,it looks like a toy when it's next to the porsche

  • Tried to be top gear but u suck and ur boring as fuck

  • tesla FTW

    It's the car of the future because our gas will run out and every porsche and ferrari and everything else will be scrap

    expect to see these cars on the road very soon

    P.S. The tesla was winning

    OWNED PORSCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @xXxBlackKnifexXx i dont think it is "The car of the future" because there is no one who wants to buy one. It must constantly charging, and thats not fun..

    AND WHAT ABOUT THE SOUND!

    P,S i dont think Tesla was winning? Maybe it was faster, but win? NO!

  • everything was cool, and than the do not show end of the drag race....

  • honestly i would have the tesla roadster just 2 have i mean sports cars dont get good mileage either. if i wanted good mileage i would buy the new announced model x which can get up 2 360 miles per charge

  • You can take that Porsche Boxter to Hawaii? Wow, so the Porsche boxter even doubles as a boat? There are thousands of miles of water between mainland US and Hawaii.

  • cloth door handles? ew

  • That Kim guy is just like the usual Liberal, environmentalist. Yet, nothing to say about the nickel those batteries are built with or the copper that's dangerously mined for it or the damage they cause being buried in the ground or dumped in the ocean.

  • @Buttnut105 Copper can be sourced from recycled materials as can nickel. We already have enormous amounts of both that can be used. Why would you dump batteries in the ocean or bury them? Recycle those bitches too.

  • @Jemalacane Well I usually go by what I read and watch but hey, people that reply trying to outsmart me do tend to know everything. The way I see it, the technology hasn't been here for the last hundred years when the first EV was made, and it isn't here yet. Until the mileage (and I'm talking, real world mileage) get's comparable, the technology is properly developed, charging takes a very short time and prices/reliability issues are addressed, I will not support the idea.

  • you eco nuts, never talk about how batteries are more toxic that anything, and are impossible to dispose of, and how mining the nickel for the batteries takes more coal energy that mining for fossil fuel , and the nickel in the battery is stripping the earth on minerals, more liberal yahoos

  • @fizixs1 oil wont be here for ever, and the human race needs an alternative to swich fast in order to prevent anarchy and chaos

  • @spiloFTW

    neith will the nickel thats mined from the earth , and the coal thats used to power the refinement plants, so how will batteries be made? and burying batteries in land and ocean sure sounds like a good alternative 

  • @fizixs1 Are you supposing we stop developing the technology? It's not perfect yet, it's in its infant stage. It'll get better and more efficient. Batteries CAN be properly disposed btw

  • They always fail to mention that the gas engine has 250 moving parts and the electric has 5. The fact is the electric engine is far more efficient. The motor will probably never need replaced of course the battery will. There making batteries better all the time. I think ill have one of the new tesla s. A bit slower but i think its going to be a better built car. More innovation and cheaper.

  • @trixterxx420 Not to mention it will save us all from our selves

  • Tesla won the drag race. The tesla has 100% torque at 0 rpm and it maintains 100% until it gets to 12000 rpms which is incredible. The Porsche has to wait until the engine revs to 1200 rpm before it will accelerate then peaks at 3500 rpm then tops at 6k rpm then had to clime next gear all over again. The porsche has unreal torques but it cant put them to the wheels as quickly as a electric motor can.

  • Замечательный выбор Теслу разогнали до 2 секунд для 100 км час.

  • WHO WON THE DRAG RACE

  • no A/C? PASS!

  • they should have tesla's in the need for speed.

  • what the fuck kind of stupid review is this ? WHO WON THE DRAG RACE !?

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  • @8:30 and @10:20 recycled footage :)

  • If you want to look like a complete douche bag... drive a porsche

  • Dear motortrend,

    Please stop making videos. Your production value in this video is terrible. The presenters have no business being on this film. Go watch a season of bbc topgear and you will understand. This is embarrassing. Thumbs up if you agree.

  • Beautiful Cars. Missing some basic points about car ownership costs. I believe Porsche requires $8,000 breaks at about 15,000 miles. Fuel is also a major cost of ownership. I'm not sure how long an electric motor lasts though. Longer, shorter than internal combustion? Not sure. Anyway that Porsche sings and is quite lovely.

  • @ejessieb Here's some stats on the Tesla I've got in a book about all kinds of fun stuff.

    16 Hours charge time with 220 miles on completion - on your standard home outlet, with a 63amp outlet, the overall charge time is 3 hours.

    It costs 2 cents per kilometre to run.

    Jay Leno states he has never done any maintenance on his 1909 Baker electric besides greasing the wheel hubs. Perhaps the Tesla will have the same story.

    Battery life is aprox 5 years - 100, 000 miles on the clock.

  • the boxster will always be a girls car

  • @jackoffcatchers You're fucking stupid..

  • Tesla :)

  • las mata callando el tesla

  • If you think Tesla Roadster Sport has heavy steering, I dare you to try a Mustang GT, you will need big physical muscles for it's steering.

  • LOL this video has been dumbed down. The tesla power is mesured in kilowatts not hp, but I guess if you do unit conversion it make sence

  • Did anybody else see the exhaust shake at 0:38

    Can Porsche not afford to put camps on there?

  • @Scrallex Or they could just go electric like Tesla.

  • @Scrallex The exhaust is rigidly attached to the motor which is attached to the chassis by a flexible motor mount. What you are seeing is the motor mounts flexing to reduce vibration in the chassis. "Clamp" the exhaust down and it would break the exhaust...

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  • @Scrallex clamps weigh too much!

  • I just read an article Kim Reynolds wrote on a January 2012, Motor Trend issue.

  • I can tell the stearing and handling on the tesla is shit. You can see the driver strugling with the stearing, and everytime it takes a curve you can see the stearing wheel jerking a little from side to side. also if you notice on the curves when looking at the car the way it swings that the suspension is too raised and not as tight and and close to the ground as the boxter is.

  • @fortunate3232 Also I can notice that the handling is extremely sluggish compare to the boxter. In my opinion, i would still prefer a porche over a tesla. The only thing the video reveals is tesla is a expensive super car that doesnt meet the standards of a sports car.

  • @fortunate3232 why does it matter

  • @fortunate3232 because its not power steering... the jerking is the direct feedback from the road.

  • Boxster>Tesla. Electric cars just aren't doing it for me.

  • What's wrong with people? They choose Porsche for the noise of it?

    You really mean these people spent hundreds of thousands (just an estimative, I didn't search the price) and what they are focusing in is things like "noise"?

    Well i'm going to research a super loud noise blender and attach it to a tiny bike and sell to these people, cause they sincerely must be FUCKING STUPID.

    Just being honest, sorry if it hurts your fragile exacerbated consumist noise needing feelings.

  • @Unimonis if you dont understand it then you dont understand people at all who enjoy cars

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  • i luv how they try to make the Tesla look better by making the noise of the boxster quieter

  • Whats the point of a super car if it doesn't make a good noise.

    Sorry Tesla your not worth 101k and i wouldn't buy a car that makes no noise

  • @Acd9825 Noise? That's the excuse you have? LOL...

    Anyway, i'm not going to waste my time discussing, it's your problem, and your risk of cancer caused by all that street pollution being breathed in by you everyday.

  • @Acd9825 Fuck you. You can buy an add-on that artificially makes race car noises.

  • Tesla is a stupid name for this car company. I'd name it something cool like American Advanced Automobiles....AAA

  • @Justmyopinionlol

    lol- that was really lame

  • @Justmyopinionlol Why so people can confuse it with the American Automobile Association?

  • @Justmyopinionlol actually, tesla is a cool name. It is also relevant to electric cars. google Nikola Tesla.....

  • man, we're going backward. I played with electric cars when I was a kid. Electric cars make no sound, has limited range, and just oozes new-age hippies. Funnily, I just paid for a Shimano electric dura ace bicycle set and now I'm going back to old school cables.

  • hihi i am ur girl

  • Tesla won!

  • Who won the drag race & what were the times & terminal speeds?

  • @fazer12779 The Tesla won the drag race but Im not sure of the time and speed.

  • Porsche's are probably the most hideous sports car ever made

    

  • the tesla is a very good sport car, but not any electric car will ever be the car of the future, a car that you can´t drive into a track because if you do you have no way of coming back to your home cause the range is not enough, that has such a low reliability that you can´t even compare to a lotus and that will damage the enviorment more than a hummer h1 in the long run.

  • @ZKichiro - Exactly how do you believe it would damage the environment more than a hummer? If you are one of those people that think the coal usage is more polluting than oil, you are very wrong and need to go to some research. If you are one of those people that think the battery is toxic to the environment, again you need to go do some objective research. Also the Tesla has like 300 miles range, how far is the track?

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  • @ZKichiro There could just be a charging station installed at the track.

  • @jimmy41607 More likely 2013. 

  • They brought it on a trailer, because it lacks the range to drive to the track. The track is a 3+ hr. drive away from the cars delivery point. Considering they wanted some time on the track and to test the car under high performance testing conditions, trailering it was the cautious approach. Tesla has been trying to sell these cars for a few years now and despite stopping production, have plenty of inventory left. I would lease it, as there will be no resale value on the roadster.

  • Wait, i though Telsa is no longer available in the world. :S

  • @Emerald99yo you are wrong

  • You have a special on a Porsche and you use a Boxster? Is this your first episode? You might as well have a shitty corvette.

    the tesla is cool though.

  • Roadster Sport 0-60: 3.7 seconds

    Porsche 0-60: 4.9 seconds

    I wonder who won the drag race?

    In addition, they were talking about having a trailer follow your Tesla. The Tesla roadster has a range of 245 miles per charge, so a trailer is hardly necessary.

    The performance version of the Tesla Model S, a full size family sedan, has up to 300 miles per charge and 4.5 seconds from 0-60. The Model S starts at $50,000, ten thousand less than the Porsche.

  • @thencaesarfalls The Tesla Model S with 300 miles range (Signature Series) will sell for closer to $80K, not the $50K you represent. Furthermore, the 4.5 sec. 0 - 60 time is for an additional performance package, which Tesla has not indicated any pricing figures for as of yet. Also, Porsche's don't get a Federal Tax Credit, which is also factured into the pricing figures. Tesla is the next Enron. I hope you do not own the stock.

  • WHO WON THE DRAG RACE..... ????? -__-

  • @llparasitell. I gave it a thumb down because of the way they chickened out with the drag race, because they were afraid to piss off the manufacturers if they showed who won. 

  • how come electric cars only have a single gear transmission

  • hrm sharing fantasies

  • this is for the haters: electric cars are the future, if you don't like that.....then go and watch some BMW crap or whatever!

    Nuff said!

  • yes CO2 is bad for the atmosphere,but humans have been around for like 1 thousand of the time that earth has existed, and it is proven that there is a ice age like every 20,000 thousands years and human kind is just coming out of one and the earth is starting to heat back up till it collapse again and causing another ice age its inevitable the worlds is going to heat up no matter what we do, and yes we may be able to slow it down maybe just a little but we cant stop it!!!

  • @jackoffcatchers God you are a moron.

  • LIFT OFF AT6:52

  • @suxaguitar We cant burn dino oil forever, but we can remake liquid fuels through the fischer tropsch method

  • 02:44 TOYOTA @.@

  • That Tesla has a great sound...

  • @TheOnyxSentinel top gear has been unfair (lost trials included) towards tesla, or any other E-car. It´s the reason I stop watching it

  • i got to drive a tesla a guy was selling at aventura mal (north miami) felt like a miata on steroids

  • Boxster kill tesla

  • If the first electric cars were designed in the late 1890s how is that the future? Its not. 

  • @D1sepuku Batteries were not as good that time, now when the technology is more advanced its time to do something to clean the air a bit.It will take them another 5-7 years before they develop something that could be much better then gas vehicles , but its coming sooner or later

  • @D1sepuku What IS the future then? We can't keep burning oil for ever.

  • @suxatguitar1

    Hydrogen power

  • ONE OF THOSE WAS AT MY SCHOOL !!!!!! i sat in it :)

  • I don't see how you need a trailer following you in a Tesla when all you need is an electric outlet. NOT EVEN A GAS STATION. Is that guy retarded??? It goes a good 300 miles on a charge. So as long as you watch the power gage just like a regular car you'll be alright because I'm quite sure there are wall sockets to be found a few places here and there. hmm idiot....

  • these guys need to remove their tampons and learn how to drive.

  • I feel like these guys just learned what a car is

  • @ 13:42 the drag race. lol I can hear Hitler screaming now as that quite Tesla smokes that POS fruity looking ladies car. NIEN NIEN NIEN! xD

  • skip to 13:42!!!!!

  • One of those guys bores the shit out of me, the other is a closed minded prick.

  • hahaha he called the Spyder a 'real car'. Real cars aren't convertibles.

  • awhhh yeahhh telsa pwned in the drag. i mean think about it, how fast does electricity travel? very very fast, almost instantly. i really wouldnt mind having either of these cars though.

  • Tesla: American Cars, American Fuel. This is the future.

  • @beansoda Can you can electricity "fuel"?

  • i want a tesla so bad lol.

  • hmz like romantic nights, candles, re d roses

  • how is 1 gear efficient?

  • @tmbvd3 considering that the tesla has an electric motor it doesnt need more than one gear, a car with a gas engine needs more than one gear to actually start moving then speed up..... electric doesnt need that because it will put out all its torque allowing the car to accelerate to higher speeds without needing more then one gear....giving it a transmission will one weight it down too.

  • Did the acting seem forced to anyone else?

  • @RidX4Ricers the british are sooo much better at video tests... american journalists have a long way to go to catch up...

  • 6:00 Put yo hands on the wheel foo!

  • He's so slow around the track =O What is he going to the grocery store?

  • "Technology of the future"

    Electric cars have been around longer than Internal Combustion xD

  • @Vicious713 yeah but due to American corporate greed we forgot them for almost 100 years, all for the oil companies skyrocketing profits.

  • i can drive better then u guys.....

    and i dont even hav my license :D

  • what the heck show us who won

  • Trying to be like TopGear and failing...

  • the fact that tesla can be compared to porche says alot about what they are capable of

  • Who won?!?

  • i dont understand something, when they are driving and they are filming from the outside it seems to be nobody in the passanger seat but when they are filming from the inside you can see tin the shadow that there is a camera guy in the passanger seat i dont understand whats the need for doing that

  • @MrNo0nekares proper steering and brakes unlike the Tesla), and you'll never run out of juice, if you run out of batteries the generator kicks in to charge the batteries and run the motors. It's all for the best.

  • @MrNo0nekares Cars have been like that for ages, and believe me, they don't break, especially porches (I don't like them, but it's a fact that they are sturdy). For trackday (or track morning... lol) toy the Tesla has it's uses, or as an extremely expensive town car, otherwise with the mileage you get out of a single charge, this car is a joke. There are cars like th Fisker Karma which are electric/hybrid, that are real cars with everything you'll expect in a modern luxury sports car (with

  • 2 bad the Tesla sucks balls in GT5...the closest I've got 2 one so far...lol.

    Hopefully they get it right in Forza 4.

  • -Kim, why are you sitting up there on a trailer|???

    -My batteries run out on my way here!

    LOL

  • @MrNo0nekares You obviously have no knowledge of mechanics at all... he tries to spin the whells in a bit of tamac that offers perfect grip, no matter the car the muffler will "flop around" as you say... if you try to bolt it in place so that it won't "flop", then it's gonna crack after a while of doing this, as the whole motor, drive train, suspension, everything bounces up and down if you do this kind of stuff.

  • are you kidding me!? advertisement in the middle of a video now!? GGAAAYY

  • How was that expesive. In Norway that car costs about 200 000 dollars and the porche even more.

    Damn you taxes

  • I like Tesla Roadster Sport

  • can someone tell where this was shot? looks like somewhere south

  • @elektrokuma I think they said streets of willow (springs raceway) on the video

  • @jezuz12345

    thanks! i must have missed that. it looks like willow springs

  • why the brits always envy of americans

  • 4:35

    You're right, it has to be a Lotus to be perfect :D

  • in the game pgr 4 the sound of the roadster sounds like a plane in this vid it sounds like a rocket idk y im posting this

  • CO2 CO2 CO2 - spreading the lies everywhere to make you feel bad and accept the new taxes. well, Al Gore makes alot of money with that...

  • @punkrock192 LOL YOU SOOOO FUNNY

  • @punkrock192 fuck algore... he is a layer...

    tesla rules

    he was a genius.

  • That fan is badass. Don't mind that ad.

  • These guys can't drive for grapes....

  • @v12symphony who would want to drive for grapes anyways?

  • If you're gonna test and compare some of this type of cars, then at least step on it instead of driving like a senior citizen.

  • porsche 918 spyder. nuff said

  • Tesla sounds like a "particle beam cannon" charging WOT. Hehe.

  • co2 being emmited, who cares, tell that to my durango. ha ha

  • all we have to do now is come up with a way to charge it while driving and you have a self sustaining car no more plugging in maybe using alternators and power inverters to charge it just a thought

  • @surscarecrow13 cover every inch of it in solar panels!!

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  • 0:41 from the camen ASS

  • 0:38 wtf look at the exaust

  • WHICHEVER car it is it is still TESLA tech

    Tesla is the brain of the original Int'l Combustion motor, he changed the world, this is all his tech we have today, He being the real reason for so much change since 1876.

  • when he sits on the hood it looks sooooo smalll hahaha

  • Can t wait to ear just the sound of wheels on the asphalt instead of engines roaring, we are running behind a normal evolution because some control freaks who wanted power over dirty oil . 

  • he says its out of battery but it really gets 245 miles per charge... look at the website....

  • Maybe the tesla is faster but the dude in the Porsche gets the pussys :D

  • @ac3b1s

    Using your intelligence instead of your testosterone will help you to get the pussies. You will soon see that women will prefer silence and sensations instead of sensations and screams to talk ;-)

  • Tesla is moving in the wrong direction, if they're trying to compete with sports cars. They really should be trying to make these things for the masses. They need to be reliable, cheap, and have good performance. The batteries should be standardize so you can swap them out, instead of charging it yourself, while on the road.

  • @Nomoreidsleft Please do some research before you post. They are coming out with a line of cars called the model s that will be marketed to the masses and will start around $56,000

  • who won at the end? the Tesla?

  • @czech27 Of course the Tesla won. In handling it may still be an inferior car. In straight speed, electric will always dominate. You get 100% instant torque. If you have ever driven an electric sports car you know that it is an almost otherworldly experience. You press the accelerator and it is like you go into warp drive. 3.5 seconds later you are 60+.