[MUSIC PLAYING] This is Edmunds'
Chevrolet Corvette. Yes, if you haven't heard-- we bought one. You can read all about
what it's like to live with at Edmunds.com or by
clicking the links below. But we're going to talk
about that right now. We're going to talk
about drag races. As you can see, I'm lined up
against a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 and a Porsche 911. Now, how does this stack
up against those two as it relates to going
fast in a straight line? Well, this is kind of mid-pack. It has 495 horsepower from a
naturally aspirated 6.2 liter V8. It's going an 8-speed
dual-clutch automatic transmission. In fact, all the cars here
have dual-clutch automatic transmissions. And it weighs 3,600 pounds-- or thereabouts-- giving
this a power-to-weight ratio of 7.4 pounds per horsepower. Now, that's significantly
higher than the Shelby GT500 next to me being
driven by Alistair. Now, he has 760 horsepower--
again 760 horsepower in the supercharged 5.2 liter
V8 under the hood of that thing. But that may not
be the advantage you think it might be, even
with 5.5 pounds per horsepower. Hey, Alistair--
how are you going to deal with the weight of that
thing and also all that power? ALISTAIR WEAVER: Uh, clearly
with immense talent, Carlos. CARLOS LAGO: Are you
driving, or is somebody else? ALISTAIR WEAVER: Keep laughing
of your own jokes, son. CARLOS LAGO: He does
sign the paychecks here. No, but how is
that going to work? You've got 760 horsepower,
4,200 pounds-ish, I mean, talk about over-endowed. ALISTAIR WEAVER: Yeah, it's
the first time anybody's ever said that about me. 56 of the weight is at the
front, which is not good news. Rear wheel drive, of course,
but I have got 760 horsepower, so I think I'm going good shape. But I am driving it myself. We've had this car
on the test track. We know that the fastest
route is to do it manually. So unlike you cheater boys, I
shall be driving this properly. CARLOS LAGO: The words of a
man with something to prove. ALISTAIR WEAVER: An
inferiority complex. CARLOS LAGO: Now, on the
far end is a Porsche 911-- a car that we don't
own, unfortunately. It's being driven by
Reese and even though it costs $116,000, as it sits over
there, it's a base Carrera, so it just has 379
horsepower, giving it a power-to-weight ratio of
about 8.9 pounds per horsepower. But that may not necessarily
be the disadvantage you think it might be. Hey, Reese, what
business do you have showing up to this drag
race of American cars with just 379 horsepower? REESE COUNTS: OK, hold on. So the Shelby may make more
than twice as much power as I've got but,
Alistair is going to have a hell of a time
trying to put that down. And I'd argue this has
got the best chance here. I've got most of the
weight over the rear axle, so I've gotten
plenty of traction. And I think Porsche's probably
got the best launch control. So I don't think you guys should
be as confident as you are. I think I could surprise you. CARLOS LAGO: You may have
something on the launch there, but we'll see how it does
against the Corvette. Remember, this-- though,
it's not rear-engined, it still has the mast
right by the rear axle. So it will be
interesting to see how this does against that
rear-engine Porsche. REESE COUNTS: And Porsche has
been building rear-engine cars for how long now? This is Chevy's first attempt
at a mid-engine thing, so we'll see how that goes. CARLOS LAGO: All
right, let's get to it. REESE COUNTS: So to set
up launch control in this, all I have to do is switch
the drive mode button to Sport Plus, which is the
most aggressive setting, push my foot on the brake,
push my foot on the gas-- a little light comes on that
says, Launch Control Activated, the engine settles around
5,000 RPM, I release the brake and go from there. CARLOS LAGO: All right, to put
the Corvette in launch control. I'm going to put the
drive mode in Track by twisting this dial here. I'm going to enter the
Performance Traction Management settings, which is an
option unique to this car and this doesn't apply
unless you have PTM. I'm going to hit the
traction control button twice to activate the PTM Mode
Selector, and dial in-- say, Sport 2. Once I'm in that setting, left
foot firmly on the brake pedal, and then we're ready to go. Right foot firmly
on the gas pedal. I'm going to see about
4,000, 4,5000 RPM and I'm going to release
the brake and then hold on. Pretty easy stuff. ALISTAIR WEAVER: So
like the other two are basically
cheating by letting the electronics do
the work, I'm actually going to drive this myself. We've had the car on
the Edmunds test track. We know that it is
marginally quicker if you ignore the
launch control system and effectively do it yourself. So this is the plan-- I'm going to have my
left foot on the brake, I'm going to take a little
throttle with my right foot, and then, at the
point of the go, I'm going to be very
smoothly on with the power, off with the brake,
let it light up and then feed the
power as we start to feel the traction come in. I am launch control,
but I'm also Usain Bolt. I know that I won't
be the fastest off the line, but come the second
50 meters I'm going to come flying through
the middle to take victory. Oh, yes. CARLOS LAGO: Before
we get it started, make sure to like,
comment, and subscribe. And also, be sure to
visit Edmunds.com. Alistair, where should they
be going to at Edmunds? ALISTAIR WEAVER: You should
check out our new feature-- Edmunds.com/sellyourcar where
you can get a cash offer for your car. So sell your car with Edmunds,
buy a Mustang, go drag racing. CARLOS LAGO: That's
Edmunds.com/sellyourcar or sell my car-- Edmunds.com/sellmycar. ALISTAIR WEAVER:
That's right, Carlos. Well done. Gold star. CARLOS LAGO: Get it
right one of these days-- Edmunds.com/sellmycar. Now, we go drag racing. [ENGINES RUMBLING] MAN ON LOUDSPEAKER:
Drivers ready. [ENGINES REVVING] 3, 2, 1, go! [ENGINES REVVING] REESE COUNTS: Yeah! CARLOS LAGO: I've got
to beat the Porsche! Come on! Come on! Come on! ALISTAIR WEAVER: Oh,
god, that's awful. CARLOS LAGO: Oh! By a hair! By a hair and GT500
is nowhere to be seen. Woo! I think he goes by
a hair, Mr. 911. REESE COUNTS: Yeah, I
got a hell of a launch. CARLOS LAGO: I don't know
where the Mustang is at. Maybe it went so fast
it ended up behind us. REESE COUNTS: That
was supposed to be the ringer with all the power--
twice as much as this 911 and nowhere to be found. CARLOS LAGO: Well,
Alistair, I think you'll be first back to
the start line, at least. Reese, tell me
about that launch. REESE COUNTS: So this
thing launches hard. Hold the brake, hold the gas,
and it light revs at 5,000. All this weight over the rear-- I just hooked and went. Yeah, that was a-- I don't know. I got everything right that run. CARLOS LAGO: I'm surprised how
quickly this thing shifts out of first. It's a real quick shift
into second gear-- like there's just tire spinning
it does anything it can to get in second gear to quick-- keep applying throttle. The timing-- it's
computer on the dash showed me I did
0-60 in 3.6 seconds. But Alistair, what
happened with the Mustang? ALISTAIR WEAVER: This
is a bad surface for it. It's dusty, we're in the middle
of the desert, it's super hot and it's just so
traction-limited. The weight's in the wrong place. And of course, you've
only got two-wheel drive. CARLOS LAGO: Are you
saying that 760 horsepower is difficult to put
through two tires? ALISTAIR WEAVER: I
fish-tailed all the way down through third gear. So it never really got the-- got the run on the second-- never got it's second wind
and came through the middle. CARLOS LAGO: So we're going to
try the GT500 in launch control and see how that fares
against these two. REESE COUNTS: Alistair
is really going to struggle in that Shelby,
but if he gets a good launch, I'm probably toast. That thing pulls so hard
once the power gets on and I just can't match it. The trap speed down the
quarter is so much higher. But we'll see. CARLOS LAGO: Turns out
we have all your mass over the rear axle you can
launch way higher when it comes to engine speed because
that mass is just going to press down on
the rear tires even more than you could get from
a front-engine car. That's the advantage, kids. You want that junk in the trunk. ALISTAIR WEAVER: So
I have Launch Control on through the myriad
of menus in the Mustang. Left foot hard on the brake. Right foot dally up then we
should hear a little pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Dump the brake, which also
dumps the clutch and away we go. But I still think I'm
going to have the feather-- feather the throttle, as it sort
of fish-tails down the road. Last time, we were
actually still fish-tailing in third gear. OK, I think I've
got another plan. I think there's a bit of a
lag between him shouting go and then Launch
Control kicking in. So it's a bit like that
lethal weapon movie-- I'm going to have to go on the--
or who was the sprinter that said, go on to B of bang? CARLOS LAGO: Go on one. REESE COUNTS: This is just a
lesson in traction management. ALISTAIR WEAVER:
Yeah, I think so. CARLOS LAGO: We going
to try it again. I don't know what I
can change to beat the Porsche, except for
cheating and leaving earlier-- and I may just try that
but man, that Porsche-- ALISTAIR WEAVER: Are you getting
beaten, Carlos, in Vette? CARLOS LAGO: Like, by a hair. Anyway, we're going
to try this again and I got to do
this country and do this car better by beating that
under-powered German-engineered Porsche. ALISTAIR WEAVER: Glorified
Volkswagen beetle. REESE COUNTS: If I
knew the German anthem, I'd start singing but-- MAN ON LOUDSPEAKER:
Drivers ready? [ENGINES REVVING] 5 4, 3, 2, 1-- Go! CARLOS LAGO: Oh, Alistair
jumped the line-- and he still can't
make it happen. And I've got the Porsche! I've got the Porsche! I've got a nose on the Porsche! Woo! Come on! [BELL DINGS] Oh, and then the Mustang
goes soaring by-- like a teenager on the freeway
with his hazard lights on. [LAUGHS] The race was over, and
then suddenly Mustang appeared out of nowhere. REESE COUNTS: I mean, if
we were on a half-mile, this would be a
different story, but-- CARLOS LAGO: So Alistair,
what happened with that run? ALISTAIR WEAVER: I'd just been
tweaking a little bit to almost launch with no gas at
all and then you just-- just be smooth-- just
try and be super smooth. Um, it's fish-tailing. I don't know if you can
see it, but I'm actually still getting movement. I'm applying a little
bit of correction, just to keep it in a straight line. And then it's only when it
gets to kind of the last cone and we get towards the
end of the quarter mile that I've got everything
deployed and then I just real you in. And that's when you really
feel the power come on. CARLOS LAGO: I feel like having
to be smooth with the GT500 is like NASA Space Control telling
Buzz Aldrin and crew to be smooth with the Saturn
V Rocket, you know-- just ease on it, ease on it. Reese, I feel good
because I beat you. REESE COUNTS: I mean,
are we sure about that? It was pretty close. CARLOS LAGO: I could
see your headlights. I could see the front
of your headlight from where I was sitting. That's not-- that's
not pretty close. That is a win and
I'm going to call it. [ENGINE REVVING] So now we're going to get
set up for a roll-on race. All three cars are going to
line up at the same speed, and then as soon as we
cross the start line, we're all going to hit the
gas and see what happens when we're already moving. This test simulates what
might happen if you were-- I don't know,
hypothetically, on a freeway and next to somebody
and you wanted to demonstrate to them what
your 6.2 liter V8 sounded like-- or 5.2 liter V8,
or 3-liter flat-6? 3.60-liter flat-6? I forget, exactly. For the Corvette, I'm going
to put it in Track Mode-- not because you'd be commuting
on the freeway in that mode, but hey, I want all the
competitive advantage I can get. And I'm going to try
second gear, I think. We'll see how it goes. ALISTAIR WEAVER:
So a rolling race, we're going to sustain about 40
miles an hour, hit the cones. I'm hoping that we're going
to choose the right gear. And then this should-- should hold traction and
we should win this race. It could be the
return of the Mustang. What is incredible, and to
this car's credit is, as soon as you can deploy the traction
then it was almost like just sucking in the other cars. And these guys were
saying to me while we had a quick break-- it
was kind of crazy how fast this thing
suddenly overtook him at the end of the quarter mile. MAN ON LOUDSPEAKER: All
right, guys, we're rolling. ALISTAIR WEAVER:
OK, so we're going to just stay at about 40
miles an hour through there. Through the corner, bang on 40. Throttle control. OK, we're going to risk this. I was thinking about
short-shifting to third, but I think we're going
to roll onto the throttle hard in second. Here we go. Here we go. Hit that cone and go. Come, on, Baby. CARLOS LAGO: Oh, get the start-- oh my god. Oh, my god. ALISTAIR WEAVER: I've
just blown them away. Goodbye, everybody! CARLOS LAGO: The Mustang's gone. The Mustang is gone. ALISTAIR WEAVER: That was
insane, how fast this thing is. CARLOS LAGO: The Mustang-- it just disappeared. What happened? I thought I was doing
something wrong. Alistair, what did
that feel like? ALISTAIR WEAVER: I almost
forgot to change gear because I was too busy looking
in the rear view mirror. It just shows, doesn't it? I mean, once you can
deploy this power, this thing is an
absolute monster. CARLOS LAGO: That's
a one-horse race. You-- we were never even
close to the Shelby. I started hitting the gas pedal
harder because I didn't think I was hitting it hard enough
by how quickly that thing moved away. That's insane! ALISTAIR WEAVER: I think
it's restored some honor. I think any just sort, of
you know, a trophy-like Grand Prix-- that's not really
what life is about, is it? It's about that kind
of mid-range grunt. CARLOS LAGO: So Reese, what have
you learned about the Porsche here? REESE COUNTS: It's
a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Porsche knows how to
build a car that will just nail it off the line and do it
over and over and over again. CARLOS LAGO: I think it
proved what we said-- I think it proved
what we said earlier is that Porsche 911 always punch
well above their weight class. Alistair, tell me
about the GT500. What have we learned? ALISTAIR WEAVER: For
a while there, Carlos, I was getting pretty
embarrassed and starting to imagine all the YouTube
comments in my head. Of course, in a rolling
race, the power can kick in, the traction is there, and it
just destroyed the other cars. And also, this
thing so much fun-- so much fun. CARLOS LAGO: You know,
I got to say, overall, I'm proud of the
Corvette's showing-- doing everything it could with
just a naturally aspirated V8. And I think it was a really
cool test, because it showed us the importance of not
only horsepower, but also how far your race goes
and also weight placement, because I don't think
any car could do what that Porsche could do unless it
had the engine and transmission setup exactly where that was. So good race, all. Even though the GT500's
front-engine layout and less-effective
launch control means it doesn't get
off the line as quickly as the C8 and the 911,
its surplus of power allows the Shelby
to quickly close the gap as the race goes on. At least, that's what
happened when we tested it. There, at the test
track, where you only need one good launch
to record a number, the GT500 was the
quickest to the quarter mile of these three. But this drag race shows what
happens in the real world and on a street surface. There, getting the perfect
launch is even trickier, thanks to a maddening
delay between the time you release the brake
pedal and the time you start moving forward-- not to mention all that
power you have to manage. With stickier tires
and a stickier surface, like a prepared
drag strip, there is no question the
GT500 would win, but that's not
what happened here. Now, how do we explain
the Porsche's performance versus the Corvette? Well, we filmed this drag
race at higher elevation and in the heat, which likely
affected the C8's naturally aspirated V8 more
than it did the 911's turbo-charged 6-cylinder. That's going to wrap up this
drag race and roll-on race video. We hope you guys
enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed
actually doing it. Make sure to like,
comment, subscribe. Also, visit
Edmunds.com, especially Edmunds.com/sellymycar. And we'll see it next time. Tootles. [ENGINES REVVING]
9:40 is what you are looking for in this 16 minute video just to film a drag race....
Results? I’m guessing the Mustang was dead last
Why the fuck is this video 16minutes long?
Just film a fucking drag race.
It takes all of them less than 12seconds to do a 1/4mile
I know they got to make money but 16 minute video for basically a minute of racing is beyond too much
Tl/DW whos 1 2 3
So weird to witness Youtube car trends, they all start to look the same in thumbnails and videos