Dual Motor AWD Cybertruck is insanly fast

[igs]

Because I’m a safe driver? The speed limit on public roads is 25mph and the highway is 50 mph.

Driving the speed limit doesn't make you safe. Basic speed law is driving with the flow of traffic which is almost always faster than the speed limit.

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[ThatOneOverlander]

Childish? Didn’t you just say you acknowledge you settled for the AWD so you would have it now before the market becomes saturated? Which is ironic coming from someone who purchased the most common produced cybertruck there is. The only downside of purchasing a Beast is that it’s extremely similar to the cheaper AWD drive. That’s where you guys lucked out

I said I purchased because I wanted to enjoy having a cybertruck for an extra 6 months before others. These 6 months will be the most fun of the entire ownership experience imo. By the time you get your beast the cybertruck will be common everyday vehicle and all the excitement of it being a new shiny rare product will all be over.

 

[SentinelOne]

I'd be happy with either AWD or Beast as it's a truck, but I've waited a long time and didnt want my CT to be the slowest Vehicle I own. To each their own and enjoy your truck.

 

[CyberFreak]

That's fair. I do think with optimization we may see at least a tenth or two shaved off over time. If anything, future iterations chipping away at it in the next couple years though minor improvements.

More likely to see improvements to the Beast than the AWD…if only to supplant the quad rivian…also the beast is currently artificially restricted in top speed with a promise to increase by ~10% so again another factor reinforcing the idea that the beast has been held back more than the Awd…

 

[Cyber Man]

I said I purchased because I wanted to enjoy having a cybertruck for an extra 6 months before others. These 6 months will be the most fun of the entire ownership experience imo. By the time you get your beast the cybertruck will be common everyday vehicle and all the excitement of it being a new shiny rare product will all be over.

Nice! I want the exact opposite - every other car should be a CT, so that nobody knows who did the launch ?.

Jokes apart, I think both are really amazing trucks. If someone is nit picking on range or early delivery, AWD is better. If 20K plus tax is not a problem, Beast is no brainer. After FS model ends, it’s $27K difference with tax credit. It’s not a small amount IMO.

If you don’t want 0-60 in 2.6 secs, you can be in Chill mode. 4.1 secs was insanely fast few years ago, but now it’s the new norm. What’s the guarantee you won’t crave for more after 4-5 years? As another member said, delivery timeline or $$$ is the only reason people are going with AWD. If someone wins a lottery and has an instant option to buy CT right now, I bet 99% of the time they will go with the Beast, unless they are buying it for a Business where every mile is important for delivery and transportation.

 

[CyberFreak]

The published acceleration is 4.1 seconds 0-60 mph, and I have found that to be more than enough for me.

Some people are happy with Spam others prefer a Wagyu steak…this thread seems to clarify who’s who ?

 

[RyanStephenson81]

I said I purchased because I wanted to enjoy having a cybertruck for an extra 6 months before others. These 6 months will be the most fun of the entire ownership experience imo. By the time you get your beast the cybertruck will be common everyday vehicle and all the excitement of it being a new shiny rare product will all be over.

So you care about having your “Shiny new toy” first before everybody else? And yet you say I am chio

I said I purchased because I wanted to enjoy having a cybertruck for an extra 6 months before others. These 6 months will be the most fun of the entire ownership experience imo. By the time you get your beast the cybertruck will be common everyday vehicle and all the excitement of it being a new shiny rare product will all be over.

There must not be alot of cybertrucks where you live. I see one daily. But you know what I haven’t seen yet. A Beast. So you may have your shiny new toy for now, until the streets are plenty with AWD. Soon enough you are going to come across a Beast and then you have to say to yourself, “Was it really worth settling for the AWD just to have it a few months sooner”. That’s going to stick with you a hell of a lot longer than the extra 5/6 months you could’ve waited and got the real Cybertruck. Not the cheaper knockoff model. ?

 

[jerhenderson]

This was my experience after test driving a Model S back in 2014. I went back to my manual transmission Chevy Cruze 1 minute after driving the S and instantly couldn't understand how I'd been putting up with it.

ICE is like an old tired fat arthritic horse.

 

[themuleman]

Having driven both extensively the AWD is not even in the same league as the Beast…after doing few beast mode launches and then attempting the same in the AWD, the AWD feels like….well, like its missing a motor….?

Meh. That time of my life is past. Money saved. Love my AWD.

 

[ThatOneOverlander]

So you care about having your “Shiny new toy” first before everybody else? And yet you say I am chio

There must not be alot of cybertrucks where you live. I see one daily. But you know what I haven’t seen yet. A Beast. So you may have your shiny new toy for now, until the streets are plenty with AWD. Soon enough you are going to come across a Beast and then you have to say to yourself, “Was it really worth settling for the AWD just to have it a few months sooner”. That’s going to stick with you a hell of a lot longer than the extra 5/6 months you could’ve waited and got the real Cybertruck. Not the cheaper knockoff model. ?

I’ve had thousands of happy people take pictures of my cybertruck since I bought it here in NYC and not a single one cared about if it was a beast or awd. The topic hasn’t come up a single time.

Maybe at some point I’ll replace my AWD with a quad motor when it comes out in a year or two. But that’s something for future me to decide. You’ll probably have to do the same thing since your beast will no longer be fast.

 

[Gurule92]

So I received my truck about a week ago and have been driving it in "chill" mode this entire time. Tonight a passenger wanted to see how fast it was so I decided to put it in sport to test. I didn't expect much because I know mine was the slower truck, but this thing was brutal, it literally threw us back in our seats and my passenger lost grip of her phone and it landed on the back seat.

I've driven 4 second 0-60 cars before and this felt way faster than any of them. Is Tesla under reporting the dual motor 0-60 to sell more beasts? It feels so unsafe to have that much speed on public roads, I can't imagine the beast being much faster than that. As it is I'm probably never putting my truck in sport mode again.

I've impressed many with the AWD acceleration. I believe the 4.5s number but it oddly feels faster.

My LR X is 4.5 I believe, my MYP was 3.5 and my M3LR+acceleration boost was 3.9 I believe, I would put CT between the 3 and the X but def closer to the 3

 

[NightOwl]

Quit trying to hype up your AWD and compare it to the Beast. Let’s keep it real. Everybody that ordered the AWD over the Beast saying “They didn’t need all that extra power” is bullshit. Man up and just say you didn’t have the extra $20k to spend and we’ll respect you guys more.

Actually, in our case it’s because we didn’t want to wait longer for it (picked up our AWD last Saturday). Well, and I wrestled with whether it’d be worth it to me personally to pay the extra money for it. But in the end I wanted one today, not tomorrow. Had nothing to do with not having the money. (In other words, we have the money.)

And not because of getting a “shiny new toy” to show off (although there’s nothing wrong with that if that’s what trips your trigger; just like there’s nothing wrong with you wanting the fastest model if that’s your thing). Rather, we wanted it now to have the joy associated with driving one sooner.

If we could’ve gotten the Beast or the AWD at the same time, not sure what we would’ve done. But suspect we may have gone AWD anyway. Just not sure I see enough value in a little more acceleration over the AWD for $20k. But maybe it’s worth it. Bottom line is we wanted it today, not tomorrow.

I need to point out we’ve never had an electric vehicle so see this AWD as wicked fast as it is.

My wife’s 99 year-old uncle lived with us the last 9 months of his life. He was hoping to be around to see the CyberTruck once he found out we ordered one. Unfortunately, he died in 2020. Sometimes getting something a little sooner may be the better option as you get older.

 

[KScheidt]

Quit trying to hype up your AWD and compare it to the Beast. Let’s keep it real. Everybody that ordered the AWD over the Beast saying “They didn’t need all that extra power” is bullshit. Man up and just say you didn’t have the extra $20k to spend and we’ll respect you guys more.

Are you sure you’re not trying to justify your decision to hold out for a truck that is slightly faster, but looks exactly the same, already lost its title as “fastest truck”, and will still get walked by plenty of cars on the road today (Plaids, Lucids, the latest exotics, and who knows what else in the next couple years (R1TQ, R3X, Roadster, etc.))? Oh and it lacks a locking rear differential and gets less range when compared to its slightly slower sibling…

Could have paid cash for either but chose the one with the most range because that’s what’s important to me. Further, anyone with an FSAWD could have waited a year gotten a Beast at the same price so again, saying anyone settled is disingenuous at best. Enjoy your truck but don’t belittle others for having different values than yourself.

 

[HaulingAss]

Because I’m a safe driver? The speed limit on public roads is 25mph and the highway is 50 mph.

why does anyone need a truck as fast as the awd cybertruck? Much more for the cyberbeast.

Why does anyone need a truck as fast as the Cybertruck/Cyberbeast?

There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a wedge-shaped, shiny silver, warp-speed 7000-pound pickup truck is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.

Everybody has big, powerful trucks these days. Some people drive them 100 miles an hour on two-lane blacktop roads, but not often. There are too many oncoming trucks and too many radar cops and too many stupid deer in the way. You have to be a little crazy to drive a big truck that fast anywhere except a desert highway - and even there, they will scare the whimpering shit out of you... There is, after all, not a pig's eye worth of difference between going head-on into a Peterbilt or sideways off a cliff. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

When the folks at Tesla called me to ask if I would road-test their new Cybertruck, I got uppity and said I'd rather test the Cyberbeast, I only drive the fastest models. It wasn't easy convincing them to give such a warped and deranged soul their fastest version, but in the end, I convinced them. Or did they convince me? I was too excited for it to matter. My truck friends got very excited. "Hot damn," they said. "We will take it to the desert and blow any challengers away."

"Balls," I said. "Never mind the desert. The desert is for rats. We are Country People. We are Pickup Truck Racers."

The Pick-up Truck Racer is a different breed, and we have our own situations. Pure speed in Beast Mode on a 5000-foot straightaway is one thing, but pure speed in Beast Mode on a gravel-strewn downhill ess-turn is quite another.

But we like it all. A thoroughbred Pickup Truck Racer will drive all night through a fog storm in freeway traffic to put himself into what somebody told him was the ugliest and tightest decreasing-radius turn since Genghis Khan invented the corkscrew.

Truck Racing is mainly a matter of taste. It is an atavistic mentality, a peculiar mix of low style, high speed, pure dumbness, and overweening commitment to the truck life and all its dangerous pleasures... I am a Truck Racer myself, on some days - and it is one of my finest addictions.

I am not without scars on my brain and my body, but I can live with them. I still feel a shudder in my spine every time I see a picture of a fast truck, or when I walk into a public restroom and hear crippled men whispering about their terrifying truck accidents... I have visions of compound femur-fractures and large black men in white hospital suits holding me down on a gurney while a nurse called "Bess" sews the flaps of my scalp together with a stitching drill.

Ho, ho. Thank God for these flashbacks. The brain is such a wonderful instrument (until God sinks his teeth into it). Some people hear Tiny Tim singing when they go under, and some others hear the song of the Cyberbeast.

When the Cyberbeast showed up, none of my truck buddies knew what to do with it. It had to be the work of my enemies, or people who wanted to hurt me. It was the vilest kind of bait, and they knew I would go for it.

Of course. You want to cripple the bastard? Send him a 130-mph Cyberbeast. And include some license plates, he'll think it's a regular truck. He's queer for anything fast.

Which is true. I have been a connoisseur of fast things all my life. Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why Tesla made Cyberbeast, Bubba....

So when I got back home and found a shiny new silver Cyberbeast in my driveway, I realized I was back in the truck-testing business.

The brand-new shiny Tri-Motor Tesla Cyberbeast filled me with feelings of lust every time I looked at it. Others felt the same way. My driveway quickly became a magnet for drooling pickup truck racer groupies. They quarreled and bitched at each other about who would be the first to help me evaluate my new toy... And I did, of course, need a certain spectrum of opinions, besides my own, to properly judge this amazing machine.

But not everybody who drives a high-dollar torque-brute ute yearns to go out in a ball of fire on a public street in L.A. Some of us are decent people who want to stay out of the emergency room, but still blast through neo-gridlock traffic in residential districts whenever we feel like it... For that we need Fine Machinery.

Which we had - no doubt about that. The Tesla people in Texas had opted, for some reasons of their own, to send me the Cyberbeast for testing - rather than their still fast Dual Motor, state-of-the-art pickup truck. I think Elon wants to kill me.

The Tesla Cyberbeast is a finely engineered machine. My neighbors called it beautiful and admired its wicked sharp lines. The nasty little bugger looked like it was going 90 miles an hour when it was parked in my driveway.

Taking it on the road, though, was a genuinely terrifying experience. I had no sense of speed until I was going 90 and coming up fast on a bunch of regular pickup trucks going into a wet curve along the river. I went for the friction brakes, but I hit the accelerator again instead. I was out of control staring at the tailpipe of a U.S. Mail truck, now stabbing frantically for my brake pedal, which I finally found.

I was like a person diving into a pool that got emptied yesterday. Whacko! Bashed on the concrete bottom, flesh ripped off, a Cyberbeast with no teeth, fucked-up for the rest of its life.

We all love Torque, and some of us have used more than we could handle from time to time - and there is always Pain in that... But there is also Fun, the deadly element, and Fun is what you get when you screw this monster on. BOOM! Instant take-off, no screeching or squawking around like a fool with your teeth clamping down on our tongue and your mind completely empty of everything but fear.

No. This bugger digs right in and shoots you straight down the pipe, for good or ill.

On my first take-off, I pushed the pedal to the floor and went through the speed limit on a two-lane blacktop highway full of ranch traffic. By the time I regained my vision, I was going 105 and the motor didn't even sound like it was straining..., but let me tell you something, old sport: This machine is simply too goddamn fast to drive at speed in any kind of normal road traffic unless you're ready to go straight down the centerline with your nuts on fire and a silent scream in your throat.

When aimed in the right direction at high speed, though, it has unnatural capabilities. This I unwittingly discovered as I made my approach to a sharp turn across some railroad tracks, saw that I was going way too fast and that my only chance was to veer right and screw it on totally, in a desperate attempt to leapfrog the curve by going airborne.

It was a bold and reckless move, but it was necessary. And it worked: I felt like Evel Knievel as I soared across the tracks with the rain pounding the windshield and my jaws clamped together in fear. I tried to look down at the tracks as I passed them, but my vision was too blurry... I landed hard on the edge of the road and lost my grip for a moment as the Beast began fishtailing crazily into oncoming traffic. For two or three seconds I came face to face with the Sausage Creature....

But somehow the Beast straightened out. I passed a school bus on the right, gravel flying everywhere, and got the truck under control long enough to regen to a more sensible speed and pull off into an abandoned gravel driveway where I stopped and unbuckled my seatbelt. Yes, a seatbelt. I may be a foolish truck racer but I'm not stupid. My hands had seized up like claws and the rest of my body was numb. I felt nauseous and I cried for my mama, but nobody heard, then I went into a trance for 30 or 40 seconds until I was finally able to light a cigarette and calm down enough to drive home. I was too hysterical to even think of engaging Beast Mode again, so I went the whole way like I was driving a normal truck, 10 mph under the limit.

Whoops! What am I saying? Tall stories, ho, ho... We are fast truck people; we walk tall, and we laugh at whatever's funny. We shit on the chests of the Weird....

But when we drive very fast trucks, we drive with immaculate sanity. We might abuse a substance here and there, but only when it's right. The final measure of any truck racer's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body. It is that simple: If you drive fast and crash, you are a bad driver. And if you are a bad driver, you should not drive fast trucks.

The emergence of fast electric trucks has heightened this equation drastically. Truck technology has made such a great leap forward. Take the Cyberbeast. You want optimum cruising speed on this bugger? Try 100 mph with the motors barely humming, and just then, you see a bull moose in the middle of the road. WHACKO. Meet the Sausage Creature.

Or maybe not: The Tesla Cyberbeast is so finely engineered and balanced that you *can* do 90 mph through a 35-mph zone and get away with it. The Cyberbeast is not just fast - it is *extremely* quick and responsive, and it *will* do amazing things... It is like driving a Dodge Challenger Demon, which would outrun an F-86 jet fighter on the take-off runway, but at the end, the F-86 would go airborne, and the Dodge would not, and there was no point in trying to turn it. WHAMO! The Sausage Creature strikes again.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between the Dodge Demon and the Cyberbeast. If you drove the Dodge Demon at top speed for any length of time, you would almost certainly die. That is why there are not many life members of the Dodge Demon Society. The Demon was like a bullet that went straight; the Cyberbeast is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time.

It was impossible. But so was my terrifying sideways leap across the railroad tracks in the Cyberbeast. The truck did it easily with the grace of a fleeing tomcat. The landing was so easy I remember thinking, goddamnit, if I had screwed it on a little more, I could have gone a lot farther.

Maybe this is the new truck racer macho. My truck is so much faster than yours that I dare you to launch it, you lame little turd. Do you have the balls to pilot this BOTTOMLESS PIT OF TORQUE?

That is the attitude of the new-age Cyberbeast freak, and I am one of them. On some days they are about the most fun you can have with your clothes on. The Dodge Demon just killed you a lot faster than a Cyberbeast will. A fool couldn't drive the Dodge Demon more than once, but a fool can drive a Cyberbeast many times, and it will always be a bloodcurdling kind of fun. That is the Curse of Speed which has plagued me all my life. I am a slave to it. On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME."
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Stolen shamelessly from the late, great Hunter S. Thompson and modified to suit. You can read the real version here:

Song of the Sausage Creature by Hunter S. Thompson · Longform

 

[RyanStephenson81]

Quad motor huh? You are going off somebody’s comment that posted on here. Hypothetical because of the Rivan upgrade. And that’s because the Beasts haven’t been released yet. Once they are, more people will ask you and you’re going to have to break the news to them. You’re popularity will be short lived and you wouldn’t spent a $100k to have the mediocre Cybertruck. Not everybody is buying the truck to be popular. Seems like you need the attention more than others.

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