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    Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    To be fair, the Tango can produce 1000lbft of torque instantaneously.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    The Tango still needs more 'busa.
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    Image of civicdrivr civicdrivr
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    What's sad is that these are faster than most Civics.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/04/08

    @civicdrivr: They don't even need a park bench on the decklid!
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    (soft shoeing across the stage) I'm still auditioning to comment.
    Did they go to the burnout box? Was it like Pinks--
    Random Contestant: "it won't turn over,damnit, the battery's gone and died, can I get a jump?"
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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    Then the owners got out and argued about who would win in a fight, Picard or Kirk, before returning to their moms basement for a nap.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    12/04/08

    @Almostbanned: Well you got my nom for COTD.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    I prefer my drag races loud and Australian.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    In all fairness however, the Tesla would've been better matched against a "White Lion" or "Stryper" electric car...
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/04/08

    @Slantsick- on layaway at SPATULA CITY: Autograph!


    If you wanna throw Stryper into the mix, put them up against Petra, just to keep things even.

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/04/08

    @Elhigh: God told me to drag race.
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    12/04/08

    @brandegee: Daniel Amos FTW! (Surely there can't be very many people on here who understand those last couple of comments.)
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    12/04/08

    @CSX321: Nope- I had to look them up. I'd slap-shift Tori Amos down the quarter, I know that.


    Maybe instead of Stryper I should have said Krokus or something.. I'll admit to being out of my depth with the whole pop-metal scene; when that stuff was popular I was wearing out my dad's Steppenwolf and Yardbirds LPs...

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/04/08

    @Slantsick- on layaway at SPATULA CITY: Tonight, narrow car goes whirrrrr?
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    Image of layabout layabout
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    Even better,Gwhizz beats 500bhp Mustang

    [uk]
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    Image of Danimal Danimal
    12/04/08

    @layabout: But can it beat a table?
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    Image of armyofchuckness armyofchuckness
    12/04/08

    @Fourstring85: And the rest of the G-Wiz fun here.
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    Image of armyofchuckness armyofchuckness
    12/04/08

    @armyofchuckness: Errr...Here?

    ://jalopnik.com/5101963/tesla-schooled-by-tango-in-electric-car-drag-race&feature=player_embedded
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    Image of mossfett mossfett
    12/04/08

    @armyofchuckness:

    Jeremy exaggerating with his opinions is one thing - and enjoyable. Completely getting a simple provable fact wrong is another, and really the only thing about that show that isn't perfect.


    That was a 320 HP Shelby GT... not a GT500. Makes me wonder what else they routinely get wrong on European cars about which I am clueless.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    12/04/08

    @mossfett: Also I doubt Hammond really didn't expect the GT500 to show ~450 hp at the wheel when he dynoed it. Everyone knows whp is bunch less than bhp. He's making television, I guess.
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    Image of Heftyjo Heftyjo
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    I'd have the loud speaker exhaust system on my EV. It'd be a recording of a 5 year old pretending to make a car noise.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/04/08

    @Heftyjo: Jetsons car for me!
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    12/04/08

    @Heftyjo: I want this one - [www.jokeroo.com]
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    Image of BadJobAce BadJobAce
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    Those blenders are both faster than my Subaru :(
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/04/08

    @Bad_Job_Ace: Drip less oil, too.


    I feel your pain.

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    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race

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    12/04/08

    @sos10: Thanks for this link! Those series of commercial were (and still are) hilarious!
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    We can collide some pop culture here.


    Old guy:
    "Boy, that's one fast phone booth."


    Young guy: "What's a phone booth?"

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    Image of Stumies Stumies
    12/04/08

    @Elhigh: Fantastic! That old guy is a moron!


    HA!

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/04/08

    @Stumies: Get offa my lawn!


    Damn kids tearassing up and down rakka frakka

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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    I just don't get bracket racing.
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    Image of Braff Braff
    12/04/08

    @Gearhead_42: seriously... i prefer good old fashioned see-who's-fastest racing
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    12/04/08

    In reply to Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race
    You could probably hustle a lot of people in that thing.


    They could make a documentary about it and call it "Tango & Cash" or "It takes 'tude to Tango" or "Fast Tango in Paris"

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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    12/04/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares:


    agreed, this would be the equivalent of wesley snipes/woody harrelson in "white men can't jump"

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    Image of al_beaton al_beaton
    12/04/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: "Fast Tango in Paris" because you might need a pound of butter to slip into something that tight?
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