One of those races featured a 416 horsepower Tesla Model S P85+ versus a TVR Tuscan S with a 400 horsepower straight-six engine. When you watch the video, you will clearly see the difference between torque and horsepower. And had it been the all-new Tesla Model S P85D with the Dual Motor Drive system, this race wouldn’t have even been that close, as the top-performing Tesla sprints from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.2 seconds.

The Model S, like all electric vehicles, has gobs of torque when starting from rest. In the first part of the race, it leaves the TVR in the dust thanks to 100% of its available torque searing the pavement. But horsepower is what you need for high speeds, and after the TVR got its RPMs going, it nipped the Tesla at the finish line by a margin of just 0.6 seconds.

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