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This poor Ford Mustang GT just can’t keep up with the Tesla Model 3 in this slightly illegal street race.
When will people learn? Electric cars are the new muscle car. In a straight line, short distance race, any electric car with even a hint of power will mop the floor with a traditional muscle car. Why? Two reasons: all-wheel-drive, and massive amounts of on-demand torque.
Here we have a 2015 Mustang GT against a Tesla Model 3. According to the video description, this is a teaser in advance of a more official race between the two cars, hence the whole racing in the middle of a public street thing. Even though the description says they only raced to 55 mph (which they said was the speed limit), most cities in the US have anti-street-racing laws, and even if yours doesn’t this kind of racing is super dangerous. Don’t try this at home.
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But since they went ahead and recorded themselves doing it anyway, we’ll take a peek.
The Ford Mustang GT has a 5.0-L naturally aspirated V8 that puts down 435 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque. However, it only puts that power to the rear wheels, so acceleration times compared to an AWD electric car aren’t going to be the greatest. Still, the Mustang GT advertises a 0-60 time of 4.5 seconds, which is pretty fast.
We don’t know which Model 3 variant the GT faces off against, but given the way it just zooms off the line, we’re thinking it’s one of the AWD versions. If it’s the long-range, AWD version, this means 480 hp from an electric motor on each axle. Tesla says 0-60 is done in 4.5 seconds on this model, but judging from the video we think that might have been lowballed just a tad.
Of course, this could be the performance AWD version, in which case 0-60 is measured at 3.5 seconds. That sounds a little more in line with the video’s results.
Eventually, people will learn to stop drag racing electric cars. But until then, we’ll keep showing videos of muscle cars getting crushed.