900hp Lotus Eletre R v Lambo Urus: DRAG RACE
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It’s time for an almighty petrol vs electric drag race!
We’ve finally got our hands on the all-new, all-electric Lotus Eletre R, and it’s about to face off against Yianni’s Lamborghini Urus Performante!
So let’s check out the stats. Starting with the Lotus, two electric motors power it, and these combine to produce an incredible 905hp and 985Nm of torque! Power is sent to all four wheels, and this almighty EV tips the scales at 2,640kg! It’s pretty pricey though, rolling up with a starting price of £120,000.
But that starting price is nothing compared to the Lambo, which rolls up with a starting price of £209,000! Under the bonnet, you’ll find a 4-litre twin-turbo V8 which can put down 666hp. It’s a fair bit lighter than the Lotus, weighing in at 2,150kg.
So the Lotus is well up on power, but it’s also well up on weight! Will the half-tonne weight difference prove decisive? There’s only one way to find out for sure… LET’S RACE!
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My parents said if I hit 20k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging .!.
mk
good🥰🥰
LAST JDM CAR RACE MATT TUNED PLs
You gave me 6k for my car, don’t even.
"Once the stability control is gone, you have no stability" ....Lotus
Lotus: ESC OFF means OFF no nannies I like lotus a lot.
@@Neojhunsame, if it's off, it's off. That's how it works
That’s why i like BMW. ESC off means OFF!
@@CK-nj5ug BMW fall apart
@@svenis97And than you crash to tree:):)
I’m back baby! Also after you watch this I uploaded a video talking to Mat about what really happened! Enjoy!
My parents said if I hit 20k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging .!.
FINALLY
wsg
The king is back!
I miss you yianni hope your recovering well
How long until we see a Mat Armstrong “I bought a wrecked Lotus Eletre” video 😅
Yes 😂
Please redo this race on a dry day…
This is better. Urus doesn't deserve a humiliation.
in the UK?🤣
Almost crashed into Yianni on his first day back 😂😂
I know right lol
Yianni didn't even wanna race Mat anymore after that, facial expressions says it all!
😂😂😂
Where's Jim Clark when you need him? 😂
@@andyelliott8027Jackie Stewart and Mika Hakkinen also
Watching this in my toilet..
My parents said if I hit 20k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging .!....
Omg, samesies. Poop buddies?
Same
😂😂😂😂 crazy that I'm also in the toilet
@@Tiger10002you're getting that camera!!
With all the comments and all the back and forth, the best thing? Seeing Yianni back healthy taking the piss out of Mat. Welcome back mate, glad you are healthy! Cheers!
Great to see Yianni back, and even in a Lambo. Good stuff guys.
That "Off means off" thing is legit cool, Lotus is actually honest and sticks with the definition of "Off", not trying to make the driver feel like a hero even though they didn't possess enough skill to handle 900 hp.
100% agree, you've asked for it off so you're having it off instead of "off". Get what you ask for, nothing different!
all well and good saying that - but its not like it's got a differential, so how would you have 100% off behave? Equal power to both back wheels all the time? throttle input mapping is still going to be regulated, so in essence there's no such thing as 'off'. Being unstable in a straight line with little feedback doesn't sound like a bonus to me
And now we see why it makes sense for this kind of car never to let you take full control. A big 900 SUV will be bought by a twat who will then turn the systems off to launch it in the middle of the city on traffic light and we see how the car behaves with systems off. It's just not good for a 900 EV and I wouldn't trust anyone with it.
@@jonnowocky8179 Yeah but "off means off" sounds so cool and pure! In a 3 ton EV SUV!
You mean it's an accident waiting to happen.
900hp Electric SUV + Soaking Wet Runway + ESC OFF. Yet the Lotus staff actually let him do that. That's taking some wild risk.
They’re glad literally anyone is driving that POS
2,640 kg.
@@conor7154 PoS? That car is amazing.
@@conor7154here comes the guy whose whole argument is just "ooh china bad"
@@conor7154here is the guy that goes “oh electric = bad”
Great to see you two guys on the track together again. Great humor and theater ❤
I fuckin love watching Yanni the faces he makes when he is either winning or losing is hilarious, and then way calls Matt selective bias 😆 to his face is also hilarious. These 2 have a great chemistry.
Lotus: "Weight is the enemy of performance" Also Lotus: New car weighs 2.7 tonnes
See the new M5 hybrid weighing at 2435 kg, even more than their full electric i5 M60...
@dj1nnie makes me appreciate my W204 C63. 1600kg and it has 4 doors and a 6.2L v8. But no turbos, no electric motors / batteries, and guess what? Doesn't need them! And sounds amazing. Will never ever sell it. My daily driver and maintenance cost is basically zero. Fuel economy isn't great in traffic but highway economy is actually pretty good!
Colin Chapman: Simplify, then add Lightness. Clearly lost the memo.
must be the reason the company was going bankrupt and got bought by a Chinese company!
@@stevenspilly are you sure you have really no battery in your car? :D
I love how Yianni insisted on the sound check because he knew it was his best chance of winning something 😜🤣🤣🤣
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Yes, Yianni is back! Awesome team work you guys 🤜🤛
love the banter between these two .
Lotus making heavy suv's... hell freezes over...
Lotus making lightweight SUV’s keeping to the Ethos as always.
Lotus just trying to survive so they can continue producing sports cars.
@@mathiaspreissler1 The thing is they said they only making ev from now on
Lotus making cars that are commercially viable and may sell in numbers that guarantee the future of the company, how very dare they 😂
It's actually not heavy when compared to other EVs.... So still a Lotus DNA but in EV form, not to mention also that it have over twice of Urus downforce
Gotta love the lotus gus saying "for us when its off, its off."
Anybody else get immediately disappointed when these drags happen in wet conditions? LET THE DOGS EAT ON DRY PAVEMENT!!!
Yaaay! Good to see you again!
11:24 He was about to send Yianni back to the hospital 🏥 😂 “That’s a quick SUV”
I know right 😂
FR
Lotus unreliable junk
Need to see this Lotus up against a Tesla Model X plaid, but with better tyres and a dryer track. Welcome back Yianni 👍🏻
And fixed launch...
Lotus: "You are completely on your own now. Be prepared."
What about Tesla Model X Plaid vs Lotus Elise 190 vs Elise 111R Race Car vs Eletre R?
No we don't
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Love you Yanni. Missed u and welcome back!
YANIE IS BACK,i have been waiting
Yiannie is back YOOOOO let's goooooo
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@@yiannimize Legend thanks for replying 🙏🙏😭😭
@@hassyg4083 Bro you're SUS or something
@@aloniabasmerom8868 calling someone a bro and someone a legend for? doesn't sound SUS? you're even using crying emoji
@@hassyg4083do u know what sense is?
As Jeremy Clarkson once said about Lotus: “Some viewers don’t know this but Lotus does not have a good reputation for quality. Some say this stands for *points at the Lotus badge* Lots of Trouble Usually Serious.”
He said that a very long time ago, talking about Lotus cars from the 90s and before. Lotus Elise was an incredibly successful production car.
@@raveninnsbruck9166 Helped that they started using other people's engines (Rover K and Toyota engines) rather than their own
Omg I’ve never ever heard that before …..wow what a guy. Gimp.
As people say ''Toyota have reputation for quality'' 'but Carwow is biased and promotes unreliable German brands
@@hassyg4083 Only people that don’t like cars buy Toyotas horrible cars.
Always a great video when Yianni's back!
this has been the most entertaining video in a while its yanney
Race starts at 6:10
Doing God’s work
@@moiseulpasmoilet Eletre cook, man. Let Eletre R COOK.
Entertainment starts at 0.01
It's not like we dont come to Carwow videos to hear the "long" intros which are full of fun and conversing between 2 people we wanna watch additionally 2:30 they talk about the cars specs too. but anyways I got ur point but also lowkey such comments "XYZ starts at" are usually written to videos that have boring off-topics intros *which is NOT the case in here*
@@Winter_Wyvern1 calm down dear it's a commercial
Saw the registration plate on the Urus and saw Yianni was back. Yessss!
In Matt's review video the Eletre did a 10.8 when the conditions were dry and everything worked properly
Glad to see you're back, Yianni in go mode! Great show, gents!
Yes, Yainni is back! Glad to see he's good and back at it.
The old LOTUS acronym Lots of Trouble Usually Serious. New one is Lack of Traction Utterly Scary.
900hp with Pirelli zero on wet track and TCS off...GL with this on any car
@@69op2gg1005ify0m It's all software with electric - I'm sure there are improvements to be made to the code to prevent that level of slippage and adjustments on torque vectoring.
Mat you got some serious crazy control skills... Such a brave man😅. Welcome back Yianny🎉
Welcome back ! It's long time no see.
Yianny is back!
Yianni should test drive the Impreza 1994 btw.
lotus making a heavy ass electric suv IS the end of the world but man that thing IS fast
Everyone said the same thing about Porsche, but it’s what keeps them in business. Stop bitching about automakers wanting to stay in business
@@josephquinto5812 but porsche does still make their original type of cars aswell.. all lotus have become heavy...
@@danielh9981 Posrche sells more SUVs than they do 911s.....Porsche Macan and Cayenne are their best sellers.
Technically it's not even a Lotus. It just has Lotus name. It's chinese car with Lotus badge
@@ChR0nos_7734its designed in the UK. Just assembled in china.
So happy to see @Yanni, love you bud, I’ve definitely missed you mate ❤🎉😁😁😇🙏🏾1:17 Glad you made it through the back surgery safe and sound 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🎉🎉
Hi Mr Matt, Ben here from Nigeria, pls do a review of the Xiaomi su7 electric car! I hope to meet you one day sir
7:15 2.6 ton lotus almost veering towards you 😬
I don't even understand how "off means off" for traction control works in an EV. Does that mean mashing the accelerator just sends full current and voltage to the motors? That's completely mental.
no, it's just stability program off. So no braking when you spin out. With stability on, you get some braking on the sides to get you in track. Would you send full power to all motors on a slippy street you would have wheelspin all over the track.
Well atleast that mode is honest then
@@xsurefaceturning on the stability devices may cost the player a bit of top speed and some time in drag races actually.
Off after launch control completes?
How I imagine the conversation about the stability control feature goes like: Driver: "Lets turn off stability control." Lotus: "Are you sure you want it off?" Driver: "Yes." Lotus: " OK! It's off!!" Driver: *Launches car and almost crash* "THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED!! I NEED A LITTLE STABILITY CONTROL!!!" Lotus: "Nah mate! You wanted it OFF, you have it totally OFF! No take back!"
In the words of Jeremy Clarkson… LOTUS: Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious
Lotus back then : light , not much unnecessary power , amazing control of the car Lotus now : heavy as fuck , lots of power , no control at all
Yeah bec the crowd nowadays only understands straight line speed
11:43 thats the most british "Jesus Christ" I have ever heard lmaoo
😂😂
I saw this lotus on the road yesterday and was wondering what on earth it was 😮looks good!
yeayyyy yanny is back.. waiting for this moment 😂😂
Yiaaaaannnyyyy is back 🥰🥰😍😍, we've missed you too
My parents said if I hit 20k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging .!.
kiss him
😊
Kamui Kobayashi also looks happy when Yianni returns.
Great video. Nice to see the dynamic duo back together again.
I missed you Yianni man. Glad 😊 to see you. I'm sure the viewership is heading up. 👍👍👍👍
For an SUV that acceleration is maddening! 🤯 Well Done LOTUS 👏
Pretty much everyone:- The Urus is not a good looking car. Lotus:- Hold my tea
😂 nice.
The front of the lotus is hideous but the back seems pretty fine
Still better looking than the Urus.
@@PrInzzx.The front of the Eletre also looks like 1989 Silvia S13 Q's.
Urus is an even uglier q8 its unbelievable how awful it looks
Oooooh yeahhh baby !!! Yianni , the man is back !!! Believe me I’ve waited for every single upload , just to see maybe maybe if he’s back . And Finally wait is over . Big fan
🎉😂
Lotus is under 1/2 of the price and significantly faster! Quite an incredible achievement considering EV's are still improving. Wonder what the real world range is of both cars. On paper Urus has 277 mile range and Lotus is 305 miles.
U R knowledgeable! And an agreable assessment.
This is why drag racing tracks don't race on wet ground
Thank you for Yani it´s god to see him back
Now put the Lotus against the DBX 707 and Turbo GT. will be very interesting. E: Also, I love the engine note of the Urus, at ANY RPM.😩
No it won't, the Lotus will smash everything unfortunately
@@Don-pk2uyin the dry 100%, turbo gt would be close in these conditions i think
@@Don-pk2uy that's electric for ya
@@Don-pk2uyTurbo gt will give a better show , the urus is slow
@@MR9Mouhibthey are literally the same car Unless Porsche is lying about the power
I really thought I'd never see Yanny on the channel again❤ the banter is "back"😂
that would be interesting regarding insurance claim, i reckon you need to get that specified on your insurance policy for race related claims!
Top work Yanni! Great to have you back 💫👍💪🏻
I knew as soon as I read the title Yianni was back. Good to see you back in vids and glad your surgery went well.
Lotus being crazy cars was okay when they made 2 door sports cars... This thing... Now rich moms are going to be using these as grocery getters and trying to drive these things fast every now and again. That's downright terrifying.
"You do it on your own mate, like you're used to doing it" 🤣🤣🤣
Yianni is BACK! Hope your back issues are resolved. It just wasn’t the same without the dynamic Duo of Mat and Yianni.
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The moment I read that yi4nny number plate, I figured, it was you, missed you in the races, man!
The number plate of Yianni almost resembling a number plate from Midnight Club LA.
No shit Sherlock..
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Heyy MW , We are really interested and looking forward to see a drag race between Porsche Cayenne Turbo and 2024 Sport SV !
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LETS GO! I've been waiting for more Yianni races. I wondered why he was gone, Your 2 banter is always the best
You two are brilliant together. Don’t stop 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️
Welcome back to the team, man👍
Did you do a review of this very vehicle i love the interior
Im just posting here since its the latest video(not related to the drags)..Matt please do a review of the new Hyundai Santa Fe defender copycat soon also the new Peugeot e 3008..Im looking to get the new Santa Fe because of it's awesome super family oriented features. Just cant watch any other except Matt. Love the humor and banter of a homegrown Brit. 😊
Crazy how the Lotus pretty much mocked the £300k Audi by snaking around all over the place before taking off into the distance. Insane power 😮
The Geely is electric if you hadn’t noticed
now imagine if it had proper traction control and tyres that actually work in the wet
“If you survive, the car is very fast”
German cars suck
Bro if audi made a 900hp electric suv it would destroy this easily. I mean look at the taycan GT it would destroy this with less power and a proper launch.
Missed you Yannie… good to see you back !!
i love how this production wasn't to professional like it was all trial an error leaning the car and the person that starts the race running at the beginning to count down lmao
Its not every day you see a vehicle with more drama than a Lambo. Faster, wilder, more drama, more fussing and some may say better looking. Well done Lotus. That is one wild ride. I hope it sells,
Nice yanni is back this is geting intresting good job matt and carwow this is so awsome
Good to see you back mate 😊
Could you drag race EV6 GT vs Fisker Ocean Extreme please?
Perhaps adjusting the recouperation for the brake test??
So good to see Yanny. I actually wondered what was going on between you 2
Good to have you back Yanni
Who on the board at lotus decided that what the public want from then is a 2.6 ton electric suv that doesn’t handle 😂
As the owner of an Evora, it's really sad to see how far Lotus has drifted away from the soulful cars it used to make.
Well, the chinese try to turn the Lotus sportscar brand into an NPC brand like Tesla or BYD.
Finalllyyyyyy ... welcome back 🔥🔥👏🏼
Welcome back Yanni boy!!! So good to see you again mate!!
I would like you to do more Track Races
@yiannimize your face when the lotus went towards you said it all 😂😂😂
Welcome back Yanny!!! 🎉
Glad you're back! We missed you!
hes married, relax
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@@hsvrdon’t be a melt relax!
Love the videos, when you put the ¼ mile time, would be great if you put the speed too.
Yanni was genuinely concern for this drag race, his goal was not to win, his aim for today was not get side swipe by Matt's "misbehaving" EV car. 😂😂😂 Yanni : "are you okay Mate?" 😐
Yanniiiii welcome back my man!!!! 🎉
Thanks
Nice to see you back on this channel Yianni.
great video...nice to see Yianni back. That Lotus think's it's an 80's 911 Turbo (930 widow maker) I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole. imagine if that sidekick would have happened on the road, straight into on coming traffic.
Why am I over here with goosebumps listening to these two friends reconnect?
@Yianni yessss you are back. Missed you and im happy you recovered ❤🎉
Great to have you back Yanny
Thanks
Can’t wait for a Mat, Yianni and Sam video!