00:00G'day, I'm Paul. Welcome to a drag race you never thought you would see, a Rolls-Royce Spectre,
00:04which is the first fully electric Rolls-Royce, up against a Mansuri, a man I'm sorry,
00:11cullinered twin-turbocharged V12. Elbows, tell me a bit more about that thing,
00:15because it's got an exhaust as well, right? It does, mate. It's got a very particular
00:19body kit on it, which I actually don't mind. It's inoffensive, which is nice for Mansuri.
00:22But yes, you're right, it's a 6.75 litre twin-turbo V12. It's got way too much power,
00:26way too much torque, and I reckon I'm going to absolutely toast you. Well, here's some fun
00:31fact for you. So yours weighs about 500 kilos less than this, because this is an enormous electric
00:37vehicle. It weighs around three tonnes, which is crazy. But yours also has a picnic bench and a
00:43seat thing at the back, which adds weight. But they both have 900 newton metres of torque. It is going
00:48to be close, because that, in theory, should win. You've got better power to weight. There's no theory,
00:53mate. I'm just going to have to win. Yes, well, you can try. That's the main thing.
00:58So today, what we're going to do, we're going to do a quarter-mile drag race. We're going to do a
01:01rolling race, and we're also going to do a thing at the end where I'm just going to be quiet, and you
01:05can listen to both of these cars going across the quarter-mile. Going to be kind of pointless in
01:08this, but anyway, you can see how it goes and the times. Big shout-out to our mate Lawrence as well
01:13for helping us put this on. These are all his cars, and he's been very generous in helping us by
01:18loading them to us. Okay, so this will be interesting. It has no launch control. It has no, like,
01:22sport mode either. He has a low mode, but, you know, being electric, this should take off pretty
01:27briskly, I reckon. I'm genuinely excited to see who's going to win this, and it is very wet outside
01:31as well, which it's good that they're both all-wheel drive, so we'll see what happens. I am here to
01:35defeat the evil electric car in my twin-turbo V12. I mean, if this can't do it, I'm not really sure
01:40what can, so for all of you watching at home, this is a big one. This is an important one to show
01:46that the V12 must live on. Otherwise, we're all f***ing. Launching on, go. Three, two, one, go.
01:59Go.
02:00Oh, see ya. I did leave a little bit early there, but he muffed something up. Ah, come on. That was terrible.
02:07Oh, this is comprehensively, comprehensively destroying him.
02:21What is that? That did not work at all. Wow, I'm just getting destroyed here.
02:25Oh, my God. I cannot believe how much faster this is. It doesn't make sense.
02:41That does... Okay, so you stuffed up the start, which makes perfect sense to me,
02:45because you always do that, but just in terms of after we took off, it was like you were in reverse.
02:50That shouldn't be happening. This weighs like 500 kilos more than that.
02:53Yeah, I don't know what happened at the start there. I just... Anyway, we're doing that again.
02:58We're doing that again, and I'm going to win this time. Uh-huh.
03:02Okay, elbows. This time around, the concept with these drag races is when Megan says go,
03:08you then go. Don't just wait for some random interval after it, okay? Megan, count us in when you're ready.
03:16Launching on, go. Three, two, one, go.
03:23That's better. Just not for him.
03:32Oh, come on, man. What the hell is this?
03:37This is shameful.
03:41Oh, man.
03:42Look, it's... That's worse. I don't even know what to say.
03:55That is... I just feel for the poor guy.
04:02There is serious damage being done here to my reputation.
04:05Alborz, I invite you to the modern age where electricity is better than internal combustion,
04:12and where my big battery is better than your hulking old-school V12 engine.
04:17This is really bogging down. Like, I don't know what to do, because that was a good launch.
04:22Like, I got off the line, but then you just sort of disappeared. So, I don't know what else I can do here.
04:26Did you put it into low mode?
04:29Mate, I had it in low mode. I prayed to all sorts of gods. Nothing helps.
04:33Wrong gods, mate.
04:34All right, well, let's go do some roll racing, then.
04:36Now, we're going to do a roll race. Now, the way this works is we're going to get up to 50 k's an hour.
04:41Normally, we would select a gear. This has no gears. It's just electric. It's just, you know, a single speed, effectively.
04:46That also, you can't really select gears. So, he's just going to leave it in low mode when we get to 50.
04:52I'm then just going to push my throttle pedal into the firewall. He's going to do the same,
04:57but the difference will be that I'll be at the finish line, and he'll still be back there figuring out what low mode does.
05:03Okay, here we go. 50 k's an hour to show elbows how this works. There's 50.
05:10Three, two, one, go.
05:14Ooh. Oh, that's actually a little bit closer.
05:17Come on, baby. Come on. Come on. Do something.
05:23Yeah, this thing, your rocket's off the line if you brake boost it. I also love how quiet this is. My goodness.
05:29Just win something. I just can't win anything in this car.
05:36That was way closer. Was I far ahead of you there when we took off?
05:46Do you mean, were you cheating? Then yes, the answer is you were cheating, but by the time it took me to drop down about 17 gears, you were already about half the way down the runway.
05:54Yeah, but it was actually closer than I thought it was going to be. We should do one more, except we'll just be aligned this time.
06:00I reckon if I could get it in the right gear, I would have actually a serious chance, but he won't let me pick gears. I'm not really sure what I can do.
06:06That's a good point. Is it in low?
06:08Oh, my God. It's in low.
06:12Okay. Here we go again. This time, I'll be fair. I'll whatever.
06:17All right. Come on. Come on.
06:19Three, two, one, go.
06:25Oh, yeah. He really is struggling with that downshift, but anyway.
06:29Come on. Come on. Come on.
06:32How could I lose every race?
06:35Oh, well, I guess that settles that. Electric greater than V12, even though you're technically should be much quicker.
06:54Yeah, I'm not really, I don't really have many answers for this or excuses, actually. I'm doing my best. It's just not that fast.
07:00Story of your life.
07:03Now, this is where I'm going to throw to the part where I'm just going to be quiet and you get to hear what these cars sound like accelerating down the quarter mile.
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07:40Okay, that was fun. Not what I expected, certainly. I thought it was going to be way closer than that.
08:08That does look good, though, with the Mansory kit, so maybe Lawrence will grace the Spectre with a Mansory kit.
08:14Why not? Thank you also to the town of Wildcatchem for having us here.
08:19This is a ripper joint. If you want a good palmy and a beer, come and visit this place.
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08:28We have a stack more videos coming as well for drag racing, all sorts of crazy cars,
08:32so make sure you have liked and subscribed and shared the video and done all that sort of stuff.
08:37And until next time, take it easy.
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