Of all the videos Tesla released final week to showcase the new Cybertruck’s frequently uncommon strengths, the 1 we enjoyed the most was the film exactly where it dusted a Porsche 911 at the drag strip. That feat alone would have been worth Tesla boasting about, but the brilliant twist revealed just as the EV was about to cross the quarter-mile finishing line was that the Cybertruck beat the 911 whilst towing an additional 911 behind it.

Except it turns out that the race didn’t take location more than a quarter mile, but an eighth of mile. Eagle-eyed Redditor u/manitou202 recognized that the footage was filmed at Sacramento Raceway and utilised aerial photos to confirm that the painted stripe operating across the strip that Tesla’s video group utilised as a finishing line corresponds to the eighth-mile mark.

Now there’s nothing at all incorrect with racing more than an eighth of a mile. It’s a valid sport in its personal proper and some drag strips only operate that distance. It’s also fairly attainable that Tesla opted for the shorter distance each to make the video snappier and to make the entire caper safer by maintaining the trap speeds reduced. Knowing the accurate trace distance now does not make the video any significantly less exciting to watch, but particular auto fans really feel that Tesla, and in distinct it is boss, the man who presented the video at the truck’s reveal final week, was purposely attempting to mislead them.

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If Tesla had merely shown the video and left it at that, issues would have been fine. People like u/manitou202 would nonetheless have worked out that the race was only an eighth of a mile lengthy, but it is not like Tesla was claiming otherwise. But the way issues genuinely occurred it is simple to see why some men and women thinkTesla was attempting to hoodwink us.

First, there’s the text that seems on the screen just soon after the vehicles cross the line. It reads: “1/4 mile time <11s, 0-60 mph 2.6s.” Tesla is not straight saying the Cybertruck just pulled off these figures, but it is all-natural for our brains to bridge that gap and presume it is. The actual smoking gun even though, is that just soon after the video ends Musk explicitly says that: “It can tow a Porsche 911 across the quarter mile faster than the Porsche 911 can go by itself.”

Our gut really feel is that Musk was just freestyling his presentation and talked about “quarter mile” by accident since that is the distance we most closely associate with drag strips. Internet response to the revelation, meanwhile, appears to be a mix of displeasure at Tesla’s attempts to deliberately mislead us, a lack of surprise that it attempted to mislead us, and a sense of “who cares? It was just a bit of light entertainment.”

That mentioned, we’d enjoy to see what would occur if the vehicles continued on till the quarter mile. Although the 911’s rear-engine configuration aids it dig tough off the line, we are only speaking about an entry-level 379 hp (385 PS) 911 Carrera. Plus it appears like the Porsche is a manual, which expenses it time in a strip run. Having mentioned that, the 911 appeared to be reeling in the Cybertruck when the two crossed the line at the eighth-mile point, so we reckon the Porsche would have effortlessly got to the quarter initial. Who’s your cash on?

You can verify out specifically what Elon Musk mentioned at the Cybertruck presentation about the drag race by clicking on the video under. We’ve reached out to Tesla for a comment and as quickly as hell freezes more than we’ll let you know what it has to say on the matter.