**Important Update!** I asked MotorTrend for their 1/8th mile time for the 2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T (7MT). They confirmed it at 8.0 seconds and 93.1 mph. That's *FASTER* than the Tesla towing a 911 did it (~8.25s), and ~0.38 seconds *FASTER* than the Porsche 911 alone did it in Tesla's video. This implies the 911 beats the Cybertruck (while towing) in the 1/8th, as well. So... what's up with the 911's slow time in the video? Worth repeating - 911 T is the slowest current gen hard top 911, so it's the best one to use as reference against the video. **Important Update 2!** Cybertruck's lead engineer, Wes Morrill, has tweeted additional information: "Love the detailed breakdown @jasonfenske13 - well done! One underlying assumption, which is what any reasonable engineer would assume: the video showed was the best run. It was not. But it was the most dramatic finish. So "why didn't we do a full 1/4mi?" The fastest 1/8mi CT hit while towing on the day was 7.808s at 88mph and the trailer tires were only rated to 80mph so we opted to call it a day before someone got hurt. Our simulations showed the full 1/4 mi race would be close but with the same net result, so no need to risk it. We also had some room to further lightweight the trailer but didn't need to. I'm glad this is so unbelievable that people care to do this analysis." x.com/wmorrill3/status/1746266437088645551?s=20 **Edit 1:** Some folks have issue with the assumption of linear acceleration for the remaining 1/8th mile. Let's talk about it! First off, that's a very fair thing to have issue with. My intention was not to provide an exact measurement of the 1/4 mile time, but rather to show that it is not as close to 12.3 sec as it may seem in the first half of the assessment. Hence, I used a "~" when showing the "final" quarter mile time, though I should have been more clear about this. There absolutely won't be linear acceleration, so there is some play with this number. However, let's use the Cybertruck alone as an example since we have all the numbers. 99 mph at the 1/8th, and 119 mph at the 1/4. We know it did this in 4.06 seconds. Using linear acceleration to guesstimate the time required, you would get 4.13 seconds (0.125 mi / 109 mph avg speed * 3600s/hr = 4.128 seconds). 4.06 and 4.13 are pretty close (both rounding to 4.1 seconds). Using this methodology *won't* give you an exact answer, it's just closer to reality than saying "it can't do it in 12.3 seconds, the end." Also, this is assuming the towing Cybertruck maintains strong acceleration above 88 mph, a challenging feat when the aerodynamic drag of both cars is going to be very significant. This little tid-bit at the end was meant as a "let's get closer to the real number" so we can confidently say it would or would not win in the 1/4 mile, because 12.2 vs 12.3 looks like it could be a toss up, whereas in reality the gap is more meaningful. Hope this info helps! **Edit 2:** Some folks wanted to know where 24 FPS (frames per second) came from. 24 FPS is a very common speed for cinema & pro shoots in North America. You can easily download the Tesla video and check for yourself. However, for those who want to see proof, I've uploaded a video so you can see the frames counted: x.com/jasonfenske13/status/1746202913712836968?s=20

The drawing of the cybertruck as a triangle, and 911 clearly as a beetle is top class automotive humour :D

Congrats on benching 500lbs we all knew you could do it Jason!

If they'd said, "The Cybertruck can tow a 911 over a quarter mile within a second of the time that the 911 alone does the quarter mile" then people would still be impressed, because that is arguably still an impressive feat.

It's just like an engineer to do all this math to solve a point when the much easier path is: "Is Tesla's Cybertruck faster than a Porshe 911 in a quarter mile? NO, because if it was the marketing department would have shown THAT."

I can confirm it was a ¨Porsche 911 Carrera T¨ because they have Agate Gray colored side mirrors and wheels (only the T has that option as standard, and wouldn't be a common/available choice as optionals for other models).

The accuracy of the 911s drawn in the board is astounding!

It's really wonderful to come across people who freely share valuable information online. You never know what kind of knowledge you might stumble upon that could have a lasting impact on your life.

You see, a detail you missed is when the cybertruck reached 88 miles per hour, it jumped in time, completing the drag race ahead of the porshe, quite simple, really.

Jeremy Clarkson would be proud how you drew the 911 as VW Beetle 😁

Technically speaking, the 911 on the trailer was just as fast as the Cybertruck

Elons marketing team has no credibility imo

Elon Musk is lying about his product I am shocked

It's impressive that people can actually calculate with feet and miles. It just looks like just guessing random numbers out of thin air to me 😂

As someone who works in the automotive industry as a Technician at volkswagen in Germany i can totally confirm that this is the right way to draw a Porsche 😂

Never trust a video of a certain brand's car winning, if the video is posted by that same brand itself.

Thank you for drawing the Cyber truck as a Dorito and the Porcshe as a Beetle! This needed to be done!

Misleading claims from Tesla and/or Elon? Truly shocking!

My favourite thing in this video is the way Jason drew the Cybertruck as a literal triangle and the 911 as a VW Beetle. Love it! 🪲

tesla's main book: How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

3:30 finally a english speaking person, who can say porsche correct.😳😳

Let's just all take a moment to appreciate Jason's impressively accurate 1:20 scale illustration of a Cybertruck towing a 911.

According to Jason’s own calculations the cyber truck is traveling at 88 miles per hour at the 1/8 miles mark ( 8:57 ). Any 80s kid can tell what happens next. The cyber truck travels back in time and beats the Porsche by 3 minutes. Coincidence that the Cyber truck has the same color as a DeLorean? I don’t think so.

you gotta love how happy thunderfoot is being the first to call this BS out nearly 5 years ago

In the quarter mile, every tenth you pick up in the 60ft you gain 2 tenths out the back door. That’s why when test and tuning for certain times, you can literally set the board to show the 60ft time and figure out if you should kill the run right after or actually stay in it till the end.

Best part of the video is the art. The fact you characterized CT as a triangle on wheels and the 911 as a VW beetle has me dead 😅

My favorite part is absolutely the drawings of each vehicle 🤣🤣

'so it's travelling at 88mph' *stops video and pulls out Back To The Future on Blu-ray

If his comedy chops get any better, he'll have to quit and go on tour as a stand up comedian. 🤠

The cyber truck drawn as a triangle and the 911 drawn as a beetle are just the perfect touch

As long as no 911’s were harmed during the filming..

That means we can sue Tesla for 69 million dollars for this😂

I knew it was BS immediately because the Cybertruck does the 1/4 mile in 11.0s WITH 1ft roll out. The base 911 does the 1/4 mile in 11.7s without rollout and 11.5s with rollout. There was absolutely NO way that the cybertruck could beat the 911 while towing an extra 5000lbs. However, I did NOT notice it was 1/8th mile. That was very tricky of them.

The car is definitely the Carrera T with the manual transmission, you can see the front lip indicating the car is SPASM, and the black brake calipers with smaller rotors which come only with Carrera and Carrera T. The gray mirrors and Titanium color wheels only come on Carrera T.

"1/4 mile is the most important metric" Thank you Jason :)

I love how you drew the 911 as a bug....funny for those who know the history of porsche.

1/8 mile has a lot more to do with traction and launch control (something EV's usually have a big advantage) than pure power.

A major contribution the Cybertruck has made to automobiledom is that is has enabled people like me who can't draw for crap the ability to accurately draw a real vehicle.

Wow wasn't aware of how good Tesla marketing is. A guy making a 12 minute video about Tesla without getting a single cent :D

missed a prime opportunity for a back to the future reference

Let's all take a moment to appreciate that Jason is an absolute unit. He's gotta weigh at least 260 😂

"Our simulations showed the full 1/4 mi race would be close but with the same net result, so no need to risk it." I won so many fights in my mind that I'm undefeated.

This video should get a LOT more attention than it has! Especially following the widespread realization that in cold weather, EV’s COMPLETELY break down as a viable option for personal transportation.

I once watched a guy in a Mustang drag race a guy on a bicycle across an intersection (they clearly knew each other). The guy on the bicycle won handily.

Jason, you rock. I love how you drew the 911 as a VW beetle, alongside the Cybertruck as just a triangle on wheels. Genius. I look forward to your future video on the biomechanics of benching 500 lbs.

If you watch the zoomed out video closely, they cut it off about halfway between the 1/8th mile and the 1/4 mile mark - the porsche is catching up and it looks like they cut it just before it passes the cybertruck - which suggests your calculations are about right. You even see the porsche *braking* in the last moments of the clip. To me this suggests they ran several attempts, and stopped each of them when the porsche passed the cybertruck, and this is the "best" comparison they managed. That might explain why the cybertruck beats the porsche to the 1/8th mile mark in their clip despite being slower on paper, the driver of the porsche had some bad shifts and was a little slow in that run.

From my point of view, it's almost enough to be within the realm of possibility. And even if it's not, it's still damned impressive, given we don't know the prep and specifics: How much fuel was in each Porsche? What were the tire pressures and makes on both vehicles (and the trailer)? Was this a steel or aluminum trailer? What were the prevailing winds? What was the altitude and temperature of the test area? Keep in mind that even the driver's weight is a meaningful variable in a vehicle the size of a Porsche, but not so much in the case of the far heavier Cybertruck+trailer. (In an ordinary car, cutting the total weight by 100 lbs. is roughly equivalent to adding 10 hp.)

How about just a fair race, Cybertruck vs 911 winners gets a pizza.

I think the craziest part is that tesla believed people wouldn't analyze this. In order for the CT to match a vehicle while towing it, anyone who's even done a drag race with their friends would know that even if you'll need some crazy power and grip to not only match a much lighter vehicle, but you'd also need someone sleeping on the launch to get the extra weight the CT is towing to negate the dead weight.

I don't think Elon misspoke. I believe he knew exactly what he was doing.

This guy teaches math better than my math teacher.

Damn, I haven't heard this much math in the whole 15 years since I graduated school.

The real irony is that this math is a best case scenario, a very unrealistic best, because realistically as you approach the top speed of the cybertruck, while towing, it gets exponentially harder to increase your speed due to friction, wind resistance, and the torque curve of the vehicle, which means its actual towing quartermile time is probably more like 16 seconds. Remember too that theres a LOT more wind resistance with a big old trailer and a porche on it too, so that exponential increase in drag is gonna be pretty brutal.

You forgot to take into account that the CT can travel through time - just like other naked stainless steel bodied cars when they cross 88mph leaving behind a streak of fire

“Tricked you” = lied to you

Elons apology would be "im sorry, in truth the cybertruck is actually 0.1 second slower than a 911 in the quarter mile while towing a 911"😂

What you’re missing is that when it crosses the 1/8 mile and hits 88mph, that’s when the flux capacitor kicks in and it actually finishes the 1/4 before it started! 😜

At 88 mph the cybertruck, made of stainless steel, activated its flux capacitor, accelerated and went back to the past exactly 1.2 seconds, ending the quarter mile before the 911. The video stops because it would show the original cybertruck, not the one that travelled trough time. If you have any questions or comments, just call Dr. Emmet L. Brown

There is a Dilbert cartoon titled "the marketing guy" I printed out years ago; it goes like this: MG: "I don't see why engineers get paid more than marketing professionals". Dilbert: "Maybe its because engineers designed and built every important part of civilization and all you did was misrepresent it." MG: "my point is that you need both." Dilbert: "You really don't".

Its like saying you can microwave a steak faster than a grill. but no one wants a microwaved steak

But have you considered: The Porsche Driver is paid by Tesla and knows how to lift ;)

Flaw #4 - The tires. The press cars are normally equipped with optional tires that deliver the best performance (so it looks great in reviews). Tesla likely bought the cheapest 911 with stock tires that are not going to perform nearly as well.

Seeing they used the slowest Porsche I bet they run the cyber truck on its fastest setting

I love how he said "two statments" while raised three fingers at 1:33

as someone who grew up in a country with advertising laws it blew my mind and keeps blowing my mind that american companies can just straight up lie in commercials

6'6, 250 pds, Benching 500 plus ... Nice 😂

half a sec gap is huge but im still impressed by the cybertruck

Maybe just appreciate a big stainless steel shell can be pretty fast

I'm so glad Engineering Explained made a video on this. I'm local & have been to Sacramento Raceway many times & instantly noticed it cut off where the bleachers are. I commented about this on the original Tesla vid & got flamed to oblivion by every single Tesla fanboy, calling me a hater, a gas lover or that its because I can't afford a Cybertruck 😂

Jason's ability to explain complex engineering with a sharpie and some humor is next level! 🚀

I guess the design of Cybertruck was made by Picasso during his "Synthetic cubism" period 1912-1919?

Excuse you. As an engineer I care hearing answers to questions no one cares about. 😂

The art you made of the Cybertruck and the 911 was hilarious, honestly your drawing skills are underappreciated

This is basically self-sabotage. When they lie about some stunts, it makes everyone doubt the other impressive feats the truck can actually do

They should've just said 1/8 mile then bc thats an official length and most tracks you have to have special safety equipment built into the vehicle to even race 1/4 mile

Everyone else: Ohh tesla stats Me: Him benching 500lbs😂

You also have to factor in their instantaneous accelerations dropping at different rates as they advance to the end of quater mile. You can notice the 911 picking up just at the end of the 1/8th mile

What actually happened is when the Cyber truck hit 88mph at the 1/8 mile it did what stainless steel vehicles apparently do at 88mph and went back in time to 1957.

if this guy didnt show his face i would think this was mark rober lol

Your voice sounded like Mark Rober in the beginning.

You can clearly see that it was a manual porsche, the Tesla was faster for the first 1-2s, but the Porsche soon started overtaking it. It slowed its acceleration though for almost a second (you can see that at 5:36). If it was an automatic dual-clutch transmission it would have won even an 8th mile race.

I love how detailed you can get with a sharpie marker and get all the nuanced detail of the cybertruck in your drawing.

They have only released the dual motor to the public. To be fair they could have been using the tri motor version which is noticeably faster.

hell i'm more interested in seeing the 500 lb bench press.. let's go

The amount of work that he put into this video may me subscribe.

You failed to mention that you could run faster than the cybertruck, while you're carrying a cybertruck in each arm

Don't worry, Elon wont understand the mathematics presented in this video.

The most relevant race would be a freeway race over 100 miles where each car must obey the speed limit.

I was extremely skeptical of the "drag race" video when it released so thank you for breaking it down to show why I had that sneaking suspicion it wasn't showing the reality between the two vehicles.

Love the white board drawing of the Tesla (triangle) and Porsche (beetle).

Awesome video and investigation! This earns my immediate subscription! 🙂

“What ever you want.” Whoa! It worked! You’re right!

Everything about this video is just great! The car drawings, the not-so-funny jokes, the math and, of course, the stab at misleading marketing stunts! Thanks Jason!

The really weird thing is, they could have just said it can beat the 911 in that trim, and that would STILL be very impressive for a truck and is more than enough to even impress the regular car folks. But they just had to take it too far and this happens. edit: also 12.8 secs 1/4 mile time is still very impressive while towing a 911, like damn lol

“Truck” Can’t wait to use this thing for “work”

The most impressive thing about this video was how accurate google earth measuring tools are.

The Cybertriangle and 911 Beatle was pure genius 😂😂😂

For the last 5-ish years my knee-jerk reaction to Elon Musk saying something is to immediately assume he’s lying and go on about my day.

And the windows are unbreakable.😂

Not saying you’re wrong, but I don’t see where you accounted for cyber truck being at 100% torque on the 2nd 1/8. Maybe you could elaborate.