The Tesla Cybertruck Cyberbeast is the world's fastest pickup truck. The tri-motor version runs from zero to hero in 2.6 seconds. But is that really enough to beat an airplane in a drag race, though?
The Cybertruck Cyberbeast is quicker than the quickest pickup truck, the Rivian R1T, by four-tenths of a second. Somehow, drivers believe that is the quickest quick. Is it?
Two Cybertrucks joined forces at the Orlando Air Show. They were there to drag-race an acrobatic EA-300 airplane, flown by Mike Goulian. The aircraft sports a top speed of 213 mph (342 kph), which is way above what the Cybertruck tops at: 130 kph (209 kph).
However, the announced got carried away watching the Cybertrucks on the runway and the airplane up in the air and said, "Watch these Cybertrucks accelerate to over 140 mph." That is a speed that they can only dream of! Sorry for the spoiler, but they wouldn't have won against the airplane either way!
How much of a good idea pitting not one, but two Cybertrucks, against a plane was, the video embedded below will tell. One thing is for sure: someone should have stayed at home.
The drag race started on the wrong foot, and you can tell from miles away. And no matter how intensely the two Teslas they were advertised for, they did not stand a single chance.
That F-22 Raptor that you see in the second part of the video was definitely there for something else, not to humiliate the Cybertrucks. The EA-300 was enough for that and all the attendees saw it.
The airplane went past them with flying colors just moments after the start, leaving both of them in a cloud of dust. In the end, it just turned out to be a drag race between two Cybertrucks, because the plane is long gone.
You would expect more from a vehicle that did that drag strip trick the moment Tesla started deliveries, on the day of the handover event at the Giga Texas. Back then, we were shown how a Tesla Cybertruck, towing a trailer with a Porsche 911 sitting on top of it, drag races another Porsche 911 and beats the hell out of it in the process. Or at least that is what Tesla wanted us to believe we saw.
We are, thus, still waiting for the moment a Cybertruck tows a plane and beats another plane. Make it an F-22 or stay at home! We are kidding. Airplane or not, the Cybertruck still is the world's fastest pickup truck. It goes from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 kph) in 2.6 seconds and runs the quarter mile in less than 11 seconds. That is impressive, indeed. But not by aviation standards.
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