Damn Tesla, back at it with the white vans. The kind that puts a luxury roadster to shame. Tesla has promised its new Model X crossover can tow 5,000 pounds when it is properly equipped, but what isn’t known is how much that towing capability will affect the cars performance.
Now we know it won’t make too much of a difference. Recently, a Tesla employee took a Model X and an Alfa Romeo 4C Spider to a strip to test this quandary, the catch being that the Model X would race the 4C Spider while towing another 4C Spider. The Model X won.
Fun fact: many high-performance cars cross the quarter mile line faster when towed by a Model X than they do on their…
Posted by Sterling Anderson on Saturday, March 19, 2016
The 1.7-liter four-cylinder ultra-light Alfa Romeo packs 237 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, and has a zero-to-60-mph time of 4.1 seconds, which is more than respectable. The roadster has a curb weight of 2,465 lbs. In comparison the Tesla X—most likely the brand’s top-of-the-line P90D model—has a 90kWh battery pack and small electric motors mounted on each axle. It can hit 60 mph from a stop in 3.2 seconds when its Ludicrous Speed option is switched on.
But it is still very impressive how the Model X doesn’t even seem to skip a beat in the video that was posted to facebook by Sterling Anderson, the former director of the Model X program.
