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Lucid Air v Porsche Taycan Turbo S: DRAG RACE

The Air is HERE, and it's going up against among the fastest electric we have actually featured on our channel – the S!

So let's see how these all-electric animals stack up. Beginning with the , it's equipped with two electrical motors that can deliver 761hp and 1,050 Nm of torque. It's pretty heavy, mind, tipping the scales at 2,295 kg, and it's also pretty expensive, can be found in at ₤ 148,000.

Nevertheless, the looks practically inexpensive compared to the , which costs an eye-watering ₤ 193,000! But then again, it's not the cost that's more than the Porsche, so is the rate! It's likewise geared up with 2 electrical motors, but they integrate to provide a remarkable 1,111 hp and 1,390 Nm! It's also a little heavier, weighing in at 2,383 kg.

So certainly it'll be a clean sweep for the more effective Lucid, right? There's only one way to discover for sure … LET'S RACE!

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81 responses to “Lucid Air v Porsche Taycan Turbo S: DRAG RACE”

  1. carwow Avatar
    carwow

    Lucid Air or a Taycan Turbo S… Which are you choosing? VOTE below!

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    1. carwow Avatar
      carwow

      VOTE: Lucid Air!

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    2. carwow Avatar
      carwow

      VOTE: Taycan Turbo S!

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    3. Thanakolamul Avatar
      Thanakolamul

      My grandma’s scooter

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    4. TheGaminShooter Avatar
      TheGaminShooter

      Lucid air fsss

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    5. Thailandball Avatar
      Thailandball

      Lucid air.

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  2. George Arvanitis Avatar
    George Arvanitis

    Its funny how matt always has to have the fastest cars to race in

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    1. Józef Józefczyk Avatar
      Józef Józefczyk

      Matt hate to be loser XD

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    2. Brian Avatar
      Brian

      When you are the boss, you get to choose.

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    3. Super Brit Avatar
      Super Brit

      Yup, it’s tedious and boring that the smug shite is always in the winning car.

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    4. Rias Gremory Avatar
      Rias Gremory

      The Lucid absolutely destroyed the Porsche in every way. Wow

      Reply
  3. Abhinav V S Avatar
    Abhinav V S

    Drag race 1 6:03
    Drag race 2 8:03
    Drag race 3 9:44
    Rolling race 1 11:26
    Rolling race 2 12:27
    Rolling race 3 13:50
    Brake test 15:10

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    1. oUofMyMind Avatar
      oUofMyMind

      You’re a hero

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    2. Arlekin Valdo Avatar
      Arlekin Valdo

      👍🤩🇰🇿

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    3. Rias Gremory Avatar
      Rias Gremory

      That rolling race is insane

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    4. Jamal Rajput Avatar
      Jamal Rajput

      Legend

      Reply
  4. wilbeugre Avatar
    wilbeugre

    They’re having a blast!
    It would be great to see a video comparing the Air to the Model S, Taycan, i7 and EQS🤔

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    1. Moeez Avatar
      Moeez

      They’ll all be dropped.

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    2. Modern Soccer Avatar
      Modern Soccer

      The sapphire version of the Lucid is faster than the type S, look it up, there’s a video on YouTube

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    3. oscar7364 Avatar
      oscar7364

      The i7 has no chance though, same with EQS. Lucid and Model S might be interesting though.

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    4. David Olawumi Avatar
      David Olawumi

      The i7 and eqs would be irrelevant as they’ve done a drag race between them and the taycan and the Porsche dropped both of them.

      Reply
    5. Luka Bošnjak Avatar
      Luka Bošnjak

      ​@oscar7364 Lucid looses to the way heavier Model X which has also less power

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  5. Vishnu R Avatar
    Vishnu R

    The banter between Yanni and Matt is hilarious

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    1. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      And also simply epic.

      Reply
  6. Kysen10 Avatar
    Kysen10

    These two are perfect presenters. Love the energy.

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    1. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      Yes.

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    2. 99Lezard99 Avatar
      99Lezard99

      i dunno….i kinda dont like yanni. he seems a bit like a nose up kinda guy after watching a lot of videos with him.

      Reply
  7. Maani Simbwae Avatar
    Maani Simbwae

    Matt actually did Jump, just slowdown the playback time to 0.25 and watch carefully. Also the Lucid left the line first in the 2nd race if you slow down the footage to 0.25.

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    1. DaReoCharmer Avatar
      DaReoCharmer

      He jumps the start always as much as he picks the fastest car lol

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    2. Kenaero Johnson Avatar
      Kenaero Johnson

      Yeah, and Yianni actually jumped the start in the first race too. I don’t know what these stewards are not seeing lmao

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    3. Lazy doggie Avatar
      Lazy doggie

      ​@Kenaero Johnson exactly! It was so obvious

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    4. Andy 55 Avatar
      Andy 55

      mit den , und . Tasten kann man jedes Bild des Videos Einzel anschauen, das Video dazu anhalten
      (25 Bilder = 1s –> 1 Bild = 0,04 s). Die Reaktionszeiten der beiden sind wirklich unglaublich 👍👍

      , = 1 Bild zurück (Video dabei anhalten)
      . = 1 Bild vor (Video dabei anhalten)

      Bonus Info 😁
      j = 10s zurück (das Video kann dabei weiterlaufen)
      k = Start/Stop
      l = 10s vor (das Video kann dabei weiterlaufen)

      Vorsicht die Aufnahmekamera bewegt sich auch, das kann täuschen wenn man den Startzeitpunkt bestimmen will.

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    5. Leonardo O Avatar
      Leonardo O

      Yeah, they should use drag race lights instead of a person giving the signal for more precision

      Reply
  8. Sam Rommer Avatar
    Sam Rommer

    If you watch it back frame by frame that was definitely a jump start!

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    1. A L Avatar
      A L

      Yep..

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    2. Dunhell Avatar
      Dunhell

      yea,i even saw it without replay the 1st time,its so obvious XD

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    3. Joel Stephen Avatar
      Joel Stephen

      Maybe they were too blind to see, all 3 races were jumping start by a split second, and the first race was definitely a jumping by Yianni. But who cares now😅…….

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    4. SAbre5311 Avatar
      SAbre5311

      It wouldn’t be a carwow dragrace without a jumped start. 😀

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    5. Simon Dean Avatar
      Simon Dean

      Exactly. Are the stewards watching the replay on a potato?

      Reply
  9. Ray B Avatar
    Ray B

    Give us a road trip special 😅 you guys together. Love it!

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    1. Mouhamed Cisse Avatar
      Mouhamed Cisse

      Yessirrr we need that

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    2. Connor O'Beirne Avatar
      Connor O’Beirne

      Pretty sure they did that with a Porche 911 Turbo S and GT3. Can’t remember if it was with Yianni or not though.

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    3. Bismillah Naibi Avatar
      Bismillah Naibi

      @Connor O’Beirne wasn’t yianni

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    4. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      @Connor O’Beirne what if we do 911 GT3 against Enzo Ferrari and Lucid Air Sapphire?

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    5. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      @Mouhamed Cisse hell we need V8SC to do those drag races.

      Reply
  10. DerStaubsaugerHD Avatar
    DerStaubsaugerHD

    For having 400hp or so less than the lucid, that Porsche is crazy

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    1. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      Taycan Turbo S only has 594bhp.

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    2. BVSTII Avatar
      BVSTII

      ​@Purwanti Allanactually 616 bhp or 625 hp (PS). Launch control and sport plus give a short boost up to 750 bhp or 761 hp (PS).

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    3. biscuitninja Avatar
      biscuitninja

      I’m guessing it probably be traction and transmission or possibly The motor controller.

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    4. manen wan Avatar
      manen wan

      @BVSTII I was hoping for some crazy numbers when the taycan came out but obviously the germans won’t go pass 6xx hp as usual

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    5. Alcatraz Crylake Avatar
      Alcatraz Crylake

      @manen wan There is coming a 1000hp version of the taycan.

      Reply
  11. Марин Наков Avatar
    Марин Наков

    Taycan Turbo S has 761 bhp but that’s only when using the overboost mode, which is activated only when using launch control. On a roll the Taycan has “only” 625 hp, cause there’s no overboost.

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    1. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      Yes. Taycan without the overboost only had 594.

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    2. BVSTII Avatar
      BVSTII

      It was communicated like that, but for some reason, the Taycan activates boost mode in sport plus sometimes as well. Only for a few seconds again though.

      Reply
  12. Drifty325i Avatar
    Drifty325i

    The Lucid is really good looking, took me a little to adjust but now i really like it

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    1. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      Agree.

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  13. Felipe Avatar
    Felipe

    Another thing is that Porsche has 761 hp only during launch control (they call it overboost). When cruising it goes down to 625 hp. It would be really cool and probably more useful (overtaking etc.) if they allowed driver to activate overboost with press of a button (similar to sport response).

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    1. Purwanti Allan Avatar
      Purwanti Allan

      Taycan Turbo S has 0 to 60 with overboost of 2.46 seconds. Without Overboost, it has 2.97.

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    2. pb5x5 Avatar
      pb5x5

      @Purwanti Allan So still plenty quick enough in slow mode.

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    3. Dhruv Nayee Avatar
      Dhruv Nayee

      I swear yanni jumped the start on the first race

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  14. Henry Edwards Avatar
    Henry Edwards

    Matt, are you planning an EV dyno shootout at some stage? Would love to see the actual HP against claimed!

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  15. The Anime Lad Avatar
    The Anime Lad

    the fact that they are going over 70mph without producing any loud noises is amazing

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    1. D90W Avatar
      D90W

      And boring. The sensation of speed for the viewer becomes less impressive. Unless you see it from the outside compared to something else

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    2. The Anime Lad Avatar
      The Anime Lad

      @D90W we really need affordable alternative of fossil fuel to save combustion engines

      Reply
    3. Larry C Avatar
      Larry C

      ​@The Anime Lad green hydrogen fuel

      Reply
    4. The Anime Lad Avatar
      The Anime Lad

      @Larry C affordable + easily available

      Reply
    5. Asphalt Avatar
      Asphalt

      ​@The Anime Ladefuel

      Reply
  16. Convenience Avatar
    Convenience

    There’s an entire car’s worth of horsepower difference between the two, yet the gap isn’t that huge. Goes to show the remarkable engineering that goes into Porsches.

    Reply
  17. Mia Khalifa Vlogs Avatar
    Mia Khalifa Vlogs

    I guess they’re checking the replays on a small camera screen or something, because Yianni had a big jump in race 1 and Mat had a small jump in race 3.

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    1. Andrew Watson Avatar
      Andrew Watson

      I’m just worried about how all these fat powerful american cars cannot brake . Just like their muscle cars from the 1960s and 70s 😀

      Reply
    2. Cameron Avatar
      Cameron

      @Andrew Watson funny enough, the owner isn’t American. So your logic is flawed

      Reply
    3. God Avatar
      God

      Hey I know you

      Reply
    4. Muu Avatar
      Muu

      If you look closely the you see that Mat also jumped on the 2nd start.
      So every race had a jump.

      Reply
  18. James Depopbuy Avatar
    James Depopbuy

    Yianni and matt need their own show together !! Doing challenges etc..

    Reply
  19. Yiannimize Avatar
    Yiannimize

    Did Matt do me wrong by not letting me drive the car I actually chose?

    Reply
    1. Haikala Avatar
      Haikala

      He has to win everytime cause he’s a big baby

      Reply
    2. Mark Parker Avatar
      Mark Parker

      For 1 second I thought he was gonna give you the Lucid to drive… he did you dirty 😂

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    3. Trey Haynes Avatar
      Trey Haynes

      YES!😂

      Reply
    4. Gabriel Doru Avatar
      Gabriel Doru

      I’m surprised he didn’t give you the speech (who’s show it is)

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    5. Jesus Loves You Avatar
      Jesus Loves You

      Matt definitely Jumped the Start 🤦‍♂😂

      Reply
  20. Mr Agent 3s Avatar
    Mr Agent 3s

    The way yanni pulled off while Matt was gloating was something special 😂😂😂

    Reply

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