What Is He Smoking? Elon Musk Claims His New Pickup Will Have Better Performance Than A Porsche 911

Elon Musk discussed several aspects of the upcoming Tesla Pickup Truck during the recently-held 2019 Annual Shareholder Meeting. During the event, Musk talked about the vehicle’s release date, its design, its towing capacity, and its performance, which the CEO noted would be comparable or even better than a base Porsche 911.

Musk noted that the pickup truck would likely see an unveiling near the end of summer 2019, which is in line with his previous forecasts for the vehicle. The CEO also stated that the Tesla Truck is one of the coolest vehicles he has ever seen, pointing out that it won’t be a conventional-looking pickup that just happens to be electric. “We know what that looks like,” Musk noted, seemingly referencing the Rivian R1T, which features a conventional pickup truck design in an all-electric package.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 6/14/2019 10:36:19 AM

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Acapulco Gold?

scenicbyway12 - 6/14/2019 12:30:38 PM

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Typical Elon Musk (and Tesla fans) unnuanced definition of performance. Performance is more than just 0-60 times.

valhallakey - 6/15/2019 2:14:20 AM

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I don't know about this truck, but I just test drove the model 3 performance this week and was super impressed, I have driven a lot of high performance vehicles, raced cars (admittedly drag racing), raced motorcycles both dirt and street so I am not stuck in 0-60 dimensions. I would encourage anyone who had doubts about whether the model 3 performance is a worthy hot rod daily driver to at least give it a drive. It is not a hard core performance car like the current M3/M4 but harkens back to the e39 M5/e46 M3 era for me. Nicely judged suspension, tight very good (not excellent though) steering, addictive acceleration, excellent braking. A great every day performance road car.

TomM - 6/14/2019 12:48:22 PM

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Gee - towing an 18,000 pound trainer - and still beating standard Porsche Performance - I am not sure I want to behind this guy at speed!

jerseycat1010 - 6/14/2019 2:33:43 PM

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That is a beautiful rendering.

MDarringer - 6/14/2019 4:29:22 PM

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Meth is a bad thing. Elon does meth.

TomM - 6/15/2019 5:20:52 AM

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Unless he gets it from YOU - you would not have any real knowledge of that

skytop - 6/15/2019 1:03:59 AM

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Poor Elon. His brain is dead. Too many holes pierced into his head during hair transplant surgery and too much crack cocaine taken into the orifices of his nose and mouth.

TomM - 6/15/2019 5:26:16 AM

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Read the article then think " its design, its towing capacity, and its performance," - what IS the towing capacity of a Porsche 911 and would you NOT expect ANY pick up truck to be able to tow more? Certainly a 911 is a poor design for a truck - too. And just where is the BED on that 911 for cargo?

Holydude - 6/18/2019 11:59:35 PM

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The design is good, hell, I'd probably go slumming in (enter your favorite flyover state) for a week or two with it.