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Re:New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car by kylec on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:29PM (#12347299)
The 918 is unpurchaseable, but you can walk into any Porsche dealer and buy a 911 Turbo S for ~$190k that'll do 0-60 in 2.5s.
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Re:New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car by runako on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:28PM (#12347833)
We're picking nits, so I'm going to point out that Porsche claims the 911 Turbo S that they sell today does 0-60 in 2.8s, slower than you're suggesting.

I don't have firsthand knowledge to be able to say which of you is wrong.

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Re:New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car by kylec on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:31PM (#12347856)
Porsche is conservative with their reported 0-60 numbers. People that have tested it are able to get 2.5s. Look at the first two columns of times in the table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

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Re:New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car by justin66 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:32PM (#12349049)
Rollout can account for 0.1 or 0.2 of a second, and that table kind of hand-waves it away: "Some measurements exclude the first foot-rollout."
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