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The Porsche Taycan Beat A 911 GT3 RS And A 911 GT3 Cup Car In A Drag Race

The Taycan has been taking on the world lately, setting cross-country records in the US and beating range predictions. But how does it fare against some of Porsche’s best?

The automaker decided to take the Taycan Turbo S to Sandown International Raceway near Melbourne, Australia to find out. The EV went toe-to-toe with the 911 GT3 RS and the 911 GT3 Cup car, two of the breed’s fastest, for two races.

The first is a race around the circuit in which the Taycan gets a 3.4 second head start and the GT3 RS gets a 2.0 second head start. As it transpires, the Taycan wins by a hare’s breath.

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Of course the race was set up to favor the EV, but even with its head start, beating both a race car and one of the fastest production cars around the Nürburgring is not to be sniffed at.

The next race is a straight up drag race. As we all know, EVs are very quick off the line and that’s certainly proven here. The Taycan launches hard and keeps its lead throughout the drag, easily beating the other two.

Although it plays to the Taycan’s strength, it’s an impressive feat all the same. That said, as we recently learned thanks to the Mustang GT500, track tires aren’t necessarily well suited to drag races, much like horsepower ratings and 0-60 times are not conclusive when it comes to lap times.

Even though this test was designed to show off the Taycan’s strengths, it’s nice to see that the people at Weissach have truly made an electric Porsche and not just slapped the badge on any other EV.

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Porsche Macan Turbo Drag Races Tuned BMW X4 M40i, 911 GT3 RS Joins The Party

Can the BMW X4 M40i beat the Porsche Macan Turbo in a straight line? With that question in mind, YouTube channel Cars with Pilot Tseno brought the two sporty SUVs at the drag strip for two quarter-mile races from a standing start.

The Macan Turbo holds the upper hand in terms of power, with its twin-turbo 3.6-liter V6 petrol engine producing 440 PS (434 HP / 324 kW) and 600 Nm (443 lb-ft) of torque. It needs 4.4 seconds to sprint to 100 km/h (62 mph), and maxes out at 272 km/h (169 mph).

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As for the X4 M40i, it has ‘only’ 360 PS (355 HP / 265 kW) and 500 Nm (369 lb-ft) of torque, which allows it to hit 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.8 seconds. However, this particular example rocks a €500 ($611) Stage 1 software upgrade, which lifts the output of the turbocharged 3.0-liter straight-six to 410 PS (404 HP / 302 kW) and thus brings it closer to the Porsche.

Both the X4 and the Macan, which are from the 2018 model year, had winter tires on and ran on half a tank of fuel. So, do you think the Bimmer was the first to cross the finish line, despite the obvious deficit in power? Before finding out the answer to that question, we have to highlight the fact that the winner was set loose against the Porsche 911 GT3 RS in a quarter-mile sprint – but we probably know how that ended, right?

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