Tuned BMW diesel v new Tesla Model 3: DRAG RACE
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It’s time for a diesel vs electric showdown!
We’ve got Mat in a tuned last-generation BMW 335d Touring, and it’s going up against a new Tesla Model 3 and a BMW M340d!
So let’s see how the cars compare. Starting with the 335d, it’s powered by a 3-litre straight-six twin-turbo diesel that’s had a stage two tune. As a result, the 313hp and 730Nm power output have been increased to 386hp and 812Nm! Power is sent to all four wheels via an 8-speed automatic gearbox, and it tips the scales at 1,735kg.
On the far side, we have the M340d. It’s packing a 3-litre straight-six twin-turbo diesel that can produce 340hp and 700Nm of torque. Power is sent to all four wheels via an 8-speed automatic gearbox, and it tips the scales at 1,870kg.
Then finally we have the Tesla. It’s the long-range edition, and it comes equipped with two motors that can put down 490hp and 490Nm. Naturally, power is sent to all four wheels, and it weighs in at 1,840kg.
So how will this one play out? Could the tuned BMW snatch it? Or will it be an easy win for the Tesla? There’s only one way to find out… LET’S RACE!
Thanks to / dna_autohaus for lending us the M340d!
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When will the Agera rst and Chiron ss drag race be set up? Also I thought the Tesla had this one in the bag 😂
Mat definitely jumped the start
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Mat did jump that start when they put them closer together in the replay
Matt absolutely jumped
As per
He always does
Are you blind? That launch was bang on perfect.
You blind,he didn't jump whatsoever
There is a difference between jumping and having an insane reaction time and being on the bang
It was close but Matt jumped. If you go frame by frame using the < and > keys, the car has a slight roll about 3 frames before the hands start to move. Which means Matt was coming off the brake even before that.
Yup this is what I came here to say. You can see the car move ever so slightly before the hands even began to move. It was minor but it was a jump
yeh its all staged
Matt you have to wear you clothes backward on your next video, to balance the injustice done to SAM today. I think it is the only way to be fair to Sam and the people watching CarWow. Ha!Ha!
Only a fragment of a second,but he jumped pretty much 2-3frames before the hands move.
just the "." then you can actually go foreward by a frame....
11:55 No question, Matt jumped that start. His front wheel was turning before the hands dropped. Go play it at 0.25 in the YT player, which slows the slo-mo even more. It would be good to know the FPS rate to determine the actual jump time, but clearly a jump!
Just so everyone can see the actual result, you can go frame by frame by using comma and period (, & .). By doing so, you'll see that Mat did indeed jump the start by a frame or two. Taking into account that the very quickest reaction times from visual stimulus is 100+ ms and the average is 250, so quarter of a second. Since the video shown is in slow-motion, it's likely 120 FPS or 240 FPS. If it was 120 FPS, each frame would be 8,33 ms and if it was 240, it'd be 4,17 ms. All this to say: Even if Mat didn't jump the start, which he did, he couldn't have possibly reacted to the hands dropping.
Matt jumped by 3 frames! Slowed it down to .25 and the wheel moves forward 3 times before the hands moved
Matt totally jumped - it's super clear going frame by frame. in any case, EVEN if it were exactly that frame, he would still have jumped, since it's impossible to have 0 sec reaction time. Matt needs to wear his clothes backwards for the next FULL video!
THIS IS WHY THEY HAVE TO DO A STARTING LIGHT SYSTEM
DEFINITELY JUMPED!
Whopper
The public has spoken: Matt should wear his clothes backwards.
Matte absolutely jumped .... Now Matt should do the same in the next video ...😂😂😂
Yes! And upside down 🤣
He did not. That was a picture perfect Launch. Slow it down you can see the hands move before the wheels
@@ww_melon1418You are blind ?. Front BMW wheel moving befor hands go down!
I would definitely call that a jump by Matt also :P
@@henzo7087 You're correct. I slowed it down even more to 0.25 and you can clearly see the front wheels of the BMW move before the hands drop. So Sam is right Matt did jump @henzo7087
The interior on the F31 is really nice. Full individual spec. Not very common on those.
Model 3 long range does not have 490 horsepower, it has 370 and if you add the acceleration boost, it increases to 420 or the 430 range. The model 3 long rnage highland however since the acceleration boost isnt buyable yet, its remained at 370-380hp.
thing was slow for 380 should not be that close toa old derv
I think Tesla sais that the car is about 366kw. If you convert it is 366x1.34= 490hp. But on internet, you will see many numbers written about this car, from 398hp to 498hp.
11:04 Watch frame-by-frame (hit the '.' key) and you'll plainly see Matt's car was edging forward for 5 frames before the starter's hands moved.
i had it set to .07 speed and i can see his hands start to go down about 2 frames before Matts tire starts rotating
@@noori770I think the launch was so perfect the others were slow
Yep, Matt is cheating
@@noori770 that is a jump start in motorsport. You cannot have the car move 2 frames after the signal, so even if you time it right it's still a jump start infringement as it's obvious you moved before (including the body and mechanical lags)
Yeah he jumped
So we can all agree that Sam beat Mat while driving backwards, theoretically 😂😂😂
Except he jumped.
@@InvaderZim742 exactly, Sam jumped the last 1/4mile 🤪😆
Yes he did
Test
Completely agree
Matt. Matt. Matt. You jumped by a solitary second. But it's still funny😂
Speaking as an M340d owner, I'm loving these videos, even if it does lose everything. It would be awesome to see it up against an Audi S4. They're basically identical on paper...
The only true rival is S4 TDI yep...those diesels are such an great engines
Confirmed! No regrets here... and it has better brakes than a model 3 (with the driver's shoes the wrong way round) :-D @@alexluke84
Get a tune and enjoy 450 hp lmao
@@djkjthe3rd185 haha yeah that's what it needs, more power 😂
@@beardymedic m340d is no joke fast with a tune man. 450hp easy.
As some people already mentioned recently, you should get a set of starting lights with random timing to make the races fair. Mat probably jumped as some people who counted the frames commented, but his reaction was very nearly spot on because he's already so used to the launching procedure by a person.
Matt could never do that, it would only prove his narcissistic behaviour
That is a TERRIBLE idea - we're here to see how fast the CARS are, not the reaction times of the drivers. For the most part they nail the starts, and that's because they CAN time it based on the hand drop and the lead up. Without that you'd constantly have people leaving later the others and the starts would almost never be at the same time. I/we care about the CAR'S performance not the drivers. TERRIBLE IDEA.
@@ross-carlson It's a brilliant idea, and makes it 100% fair and consistent for both car and driver, even an non random set of lights would work well, I just feel like Mats always bending the rules so he wins and it's unfair on how the car actually would perform if race was stated correctly
His foot hit the gas before the hands went for the car and the hands to move at the same time. Engine needs a blink to kick in
Yeah. But the margin of error is technically not significant. Race lights would be a much better option.
Deffinitly a jump :) Sam, you are a good asset for the drag races. Greetz from Holland!
I was laughing when he jumped cuz of mats reaction 😂😂😂😂
You don't have to do this you know? Probably you'll regret it if you don't quit it RN
These are the videos I appreciate to much, some races and some candid and some jokes lovely!! Keep them coming
02:23 Yaaay you did it! thank you so much! This makes the videos so much better!! Seeing the stats side by side :D Love the content carwow!!!
Mat definitely jumped, incredible how a boss can indirectly influence people. This 2 jumped frames... i feel Sam's pain.
Yeah but it’s everything to have fun. It’s easy to see how diesel engines (specially the tuned ones) are so polluting. The Tesla is virtually silent and has “zero” emissions, bravo. Even if the energy comes from coal or whatever, it’s much easier to filter that locally than on a city with thousands of vehicles.
Look up the regions where they’re manufacturing and mining for the batteries the people are literally so sick from what it’s done to their cities @@ricarmig
@@ricarmig So let’s just bury the Tesla battery under the earth because that’s fantastic too
@@ricarmigtbh the tuned one seems tuned badly, that much coal for that lil extrapower. Btw xhp3 transmission tune would be better than alpina one. My 20 year old tuned diesel doesn’t coal like the one in the video.
I've said many times over the years that Matt jumps and his crew always says he didn't. Honestly it has to be pretty blatant to get called on this channel and Matt is consistently right at the edge vs most drivers.
I agree with Sam. Mat jumped the start.
Matt : come on diesel!! Diesel Engine : I'm trying... 😢
I remember owning a tuned E46 330D Touring, what a great car, sadly, the automatic gearbox doesn't like high torque figures so that blew up.... Still, a lovely and Golf GTI performance fast family wagon
Mat definitely made a jump start, the reaction time cannot be zero, but wheels of his car began to spin simultaneously with the movement of hand
If the wheels are spinning while the hand is moving then he did not jump, it only counts as a jump if the hands were not moving
@@blazesmooth5573 they were moving before hands started to move
You’re allowed to predict the start, so a reaction can be 0
Oh it absolutely can be zero., and it happens in drag racing all the time
Oh it was absolutely can be zero., and it happens in drag racing all the time
Mat absolutely definitely jumped the start.
😂😂😂 Sam's new outfit rocks. And the walk 😂 you guys are hilarious. Dope episode 👌👌👌
One Of the best carwow videos I’ve seen lol hahaha absolute legends the pair of them
the tyre did move a half rotation.
also no way he has a reaction time of a humming bird...cause even if the hands started moving ...he couldnt have saw that...soo yeahh jumped..i dont know how we can in a minute come to this conclusion. i kinda think its for the video tho
Yeah.. starting to dislike this lately...
@@GeoBot_Gamingthe blatant cheating he done in the last vid against Chris on the bike was shamefull. They knew he was going to do it in the rolling races to as they changed their usual camera filming position to an angle that made Matts blatant rolling race jumping less obvious. One of them he basically started about a full 2 secs before Chris. Read the comments and thankfully most spotted it. Dude was cheating against a bike in the wet.
Enjoyed watching race as well as the banter 😅
The Sound check was awesome 🤣
To correct, the 35d has 630nm of torque in stock form, not 730nm. So over 170nm increase with the remap
for about 7 frames before the hands start moving, you can see that Mat jumped the start you can check frame by frame using the < and > keys.
"Did Matt jump?", "I need my job" XD
It's interesting that the camera always shows from the back corner angle during the start, but this time, with their disagreements, the angle is perfectly on the side. 🤔
It’s a conspiracy!!
Did you miss the bit where the guy recording said ‘I’m going to get this in Slo-Mo’ 🤦🏽🤦🏽
Matt would be one of the most frustrating people to work with. He always has to be right
100% true. Like a kid
But he usually is so..
Absolutely agree. He's becoming way more annoying and childish on this show. Time to unsub and find a new channel
@@nvrdwn3140 BS he is mostly wrong but we're just used to him aways coming up ontop, an example of the old days bosses
Yes, but mimics reality! And makes the show dynamic. I felt very sorry for Sam.
That would be classed as a jump in any competitive race
This tune of the 335d and the gearbox tune seems very good, what brand is it?
i had a 435d back in the day mine had uprated intercooler and tune that was it and ran 408bhp on dyno, v fast, but no m3 but great daily.
Matt jumped😂😂😂 the reaction time was like 0. That's illegal 😂
The jumping he did last vid against Chris on the bike was outrageous.. Nobody even pulled him up either, not even Chris. This leads me to believe that Chris takes orders from Matt so im now wary of any of their Car Vs Bike vids.
Petition to have lights as a countdown to prevent jump starts for future races
They'd lose 80% of their content with that.
@@johnlocke_1 Yeah they're not very entertaining. Takes them 10 minutes to tell you the basic specs of the car and nothing else. Probably only 3 or 4 minutes of actual racing in the entire video. Their old vids are way better.
Loving this 3 man for the drag race!
Matt did jump the start. However, this is the most fun I've had watching car wow videos. I've even got chance to see the crew cars. Who else thinks we need a behind the scenes episode.
Matt has jumped in just about every video.
Sam .. lol. "I'm massively disinterested in here". Classic.
Great video!
Matt has definitely jumped. It would be better to leave a random time before lowering the hands so as not to anticipate. Also, very nice video ! I would love to see that same drag race with a stage 1+ remap on the m340d ;)
The 335d actually only puts out 630NM stock, not 730NM. PS: You can see from the wheels rotating before the starter's hands went down that Mat was absolutely not still at the start.
Matt 100% jumped that start even though by the slightest of margins, Sams right he jumped.
Crazy to see that you need to have tons of specks and tuning to beat the TM3. And this wasn’t even the performance model either. No wonder why the TMY was the most sold car in the whole world.
But still impressive how well the diesel holds its own off the line considering the immediate power advantage of electric powertrain
Man this absolutely mental Matt always does this
Technically a jump, if it was formula timing he'd be out. But bloody close. That tune is well worth it. Unicorn for the win . Love that 6 pot diesel motor.
They should do formula timing
8:17 the worst censoring of a middle finger I've ever seen in my life 😂😂
*best
That forfeit has me in tears hahahah 😂
Hello, Car Wow. Please make a drag of all generations of lotus esprit! It will be very interesting!
11:00 he absolutely jumped that
This Jump situation was so intense I even forgot which cars were competing
Love the , Lest we Forget, on the ambulance. And mat did jump.
Love this Video! Yanni would have never done this.. and this is why I love Sam! Such a fun dude.
I didn't even finish the video, but Matt, you jumped! If your tire breaks B4 the hands move, that's a jump, Street Outlaws rules!😂😂
Just a small comment to all Tesla M3LR videos - they are not 490 HP. They are more around 400. Then performance boost (on pre highland models) brings it to around 460. Tesla leaves a lot of performance on the table for the LR so they can distinguish the Performance model.
I thought that sounded high. I even went to look it up as you wrote this and then I got sucked into an article. But, I couldn't find anything close to 490 hp; 455 was the most on the Performance trim.
@@WSKRBSCT yea the 490 comes from adding up the power of the dual motors, but they don't put out that much
The 490hp is on the (EU) certificatie of conformity of the car. At the end, that counts I think.
@@tomvanhaute604 yes something like that for sure. My model 3 on paper is also 490hp, but I know that it is just simply not 😀 then the performance boost would make it illegal tuning 😀
@@tamasharshegyi2243its already counted in for exactly that. To not have problems with certifications. It was the same with the previous LRs.
Man I love this channel! It’s one of the reasons I started my own… love BMW Touring wagons! I’ve got a 328i F31 😜
right so the worst one of the lot 😂
@@bigduphusaj162 😂 beggars can’t be choosers so I guess I’m stuck
Is acceleration boost available on the new model 3?
Would be cool to see a leaderboard of all the 1/4 miles
There is
@@spinkygrwhere can I see that?
@@augustuss1807its on the carwow website somewhere
It would have been interesting to have this tuned 335d vs M340i
It'd be nice to race for the first time here the Z4 3.0 si coupé against something like a porche boxter or something similar, just an idea cause is a bmw weird to see but really beautiful
Those diesels with a nice downpipe and also a new exhaust have low pitched mad sound. Like freakin angry, i like my 535d tuned.
15:05 You guys are TOO CRAZY! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#Facts
Absolutely love this not just the cars as boring as usual races but yes thanks guys for adding love into it making it something interesting to watch.
teslas are boring
@@jls.mp4lol another TikTok kid
he's not wrong what's exciting about that @@redbuIIracing
@@Luckyjo21 Take it out on a track and then comment, I've taken a performance model out and it's real fun, obviously not as fun as a gas car, but still fun
@@redbuIIracing your the TikTok Kid for liking them . Watching a ready meal being cooked in a microwave is more exciting than a tesla.
I love how people claim Mat jumped the start 😂😂 He clearly doesn’t. He had the launch spot on.
If this series taught me anything, there's no real world difference between even mildly similar cars.
We definitely need a set of starting lights. This jump, didn't jump thing is getting old.
My cat opened his ears as soon Matt did the noise off a sheep or goat. My cat was WTF😂😂😂
When your racing de ex30 twin motor?
Try this with the new model 3 performance when it's released
Matt had me for the first 30 seconds.! Then he said the results are 384 😂😂 all that talk I was expecting 500 or so
I was disappointed
Me too lol. I’m here thinking let’s see what this stage 2 is and I’ll consider it. My 640d has the same 313bhp stock but on my stage 1 (all stock) im 391bhp and 712nm so how stage 2 is not even close to that like whaaaatttt?
@@UltimatePiixLzhey mate how has the 640d been for you?
@@UltimatePiixLzthe 640d for some reason is just ridiculously powerful, faster than the 640i. But very nice car have you got convertible coupe or gran coupe
@@qoa9985 absolutely amazing. I bought a 2017 with 31k miles in may 2023, it’s currently on 44k miles and no issues at all except a lot of tyres. I’ve serviced it twice and brakes once and the garage always says it’s in amazing condition. There’s never a day it doesn’t get thrashed.
13:21 "Remember Kris Kross?" Yeah... Kris Kross'll make you (jump, jump)
Oh that was a jump 100% penalty request for a future video!
I actually feel sorry for Rory as he never gets a winning car.....😂
props to the editor cutting and putting together the go-pro footage from the 3 cars!!!!
I don't like that the start is about estimation and not reaction. There was no lag between the hands going down and the car moving forward. To signal the start, you should use a traffic light with one light that will light up. So no one will be guessing and we will actually see who has the best reaction time.
Where are you filming?
Top gear nostalgia 🥺🥺😭
We need more of this diesel vs petrol races🤙🏼🙌
This is diesel vs electric
Yeah i know but i said we want diesel vs petrol@@uksazalenje
@@uksazalenje This make more sense than Petrol vs Electric. Because Gasoline or petrol cars looks like lacking tractions.
Petrols gonna win for sho in drag races but in rolling diesels will have the front
diesel sucks and these races are staged
Matt jumped as per usual, should rename the channel car wow matt jumps again and again and again.😊
Where you guys get 490hp for the Model 3 LR?? It’s listed as 394 online and also, if it had 490hp, given the weight, it would be doing an 11.7 quarter mile as per hp calculation. The M3 Performance had 480hp.
That soot cloud from the oil burner! And we all have to breathe it!
Hilarious fellas! Sam is such a trooper for playing along. Great episode!
It was a JUMP!!! so slightly but the last slow mo was a jump!
San should be a comedian. He had so funny comebacks. I would love to write material for him to perform. He would be very funny.
Ive got to say that tune on the 335d isnt the cleanest is it under 400bhp should be clean as a whistle on a 335d
For those who want similar power but no smoke - you can keep the DPF & EGR, and still have about 360bhp in the 335d. I've been running one like that, no issues at all.
mine still has DPF, doesnt smoke and still got better power numbers than this dirty thing... you can often exceed 380HP/800Nm still rocking DPF
can't beat that tuned-diesel smokescreen 😆
Is Sam the new Yianni? these 2 are alway's bickering! Mat you did jump, sorry. before Nick started his arms down, you were rolling forward. Sam and Mat have chemistry.
This must be the most funniest Carwow ever 😂😂😂
I had Unicorn motors do a remap (stage 1 tune) on my 335d and it's got very similar stats. Great to see how it compares
those things are fast stock so with a remap must be class
@@jenson_burrows7881fast if ur racing vauxhalls
Matt and Sam, you guys are just too much fun. Love your videos 😊
Love ya Matt, but so clearly jumped. Cant believe no one on the channel objectively agreed on the obvious jump, bullocks. #truthspeak
Really dont know why they're messing on the jump or not during the 4th attempt as when you look the footage from behind you clearly see the hands moving first then the brake lights go off.
Can't beat an early morning carwow upload to start the day.
Clear jump. Why not get a clearer start system?
There is a difference between. Jumping and having an insane reaction time and being just on the bang
@@simin382 Actually not the case in sports like F1, there is a minimum reaction time. If you take off 0.01 after the lights go out then you were just guessing when they'd go out as opposed to reacting to any movement. This channel is entertainment but still frustrating to watch this ridiculous start "system" being used
his wheel did a quarter rotation before the hands moved@@simin382
@@simin382 If he wants to claim “insane reaction time”, they need to ask the hand dropper to pause for a random period so it can’t be done on timing.
In motorsports world, what Matt has done is called light guessing, and that's a jump 🤣
Not sure I would want a tune that constantly smokes, a bit on initial boot maybe