**A Racing Experience Like No Other: The Electric Car with a Made-up Gearbox**
Francis and I embarked on an unconventional racing experience, one that showcased the exceptional performance of an electric car. Equipped with an artificial 8-speed gearbox and without a traditional clutch, this vehicle was about to put its capabilities to the test. We began our adventure in first gear, as Francis took the wheel, eager to unleash the car's full potential.
**Rolling Race from 30 mph**
With the engine revving at maximum capacity, we started off at a blistering pace of 30 mph. Francis effortlessly shifted through gears, navigating the twists and turns with ease. As we accelerated, the electric car seemed to come alive, its made-up gearbox mimicking the feeling of traditional gears. The experience was both thrilling and peculiar, as if the car was defying conventional norms.
**A Brake Test Like No Other**
The next challenge was a brake test from 100 mph. Francis put the pedal to the metal, pushing the vehicle to its limits as we approached the cones. With a burst of speed, Francis slammed on the brakes, and the car came to an abrupt stop in the shortest distance possible. The result? A stunning demonstration of the electric car's remarkable braking capabilities.
**A Passenger's Perspective**
For a unique twist, I took the passenger seat, watching in awe as Francis expertly maneuvered the vehicle through the course. As he pressed a button, the car entered simulated manual gearbox mode, complete with a crackling exhaust sound effect. The sensation of launching from 0-60 mph was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. I couldn't help but feel drawn to the electric car's raw power and agility.
**A Drag Race Showdown**
The pièce de résistance was a drag race between Francis, in his Mercedes AMG, and me behind the wheel of the electric car. The starting lights flashed green, and we were off, hurtling down the track at breathtaking speeds. The launch was intense, with both cars neck and neck as we approached the finish line. In the end, it was a photo finish, but the experience was far from disappointing.
**A Special Feature: The Made-up Gearbox**
Throughout our adventure, Francis revealed that the electric car's made-up gearbox was more than just a gimmick. It was an innovative feature designed to mimic the feel of traditional gears. With a special button pressing option, the car could switch between simulated manual and full-electric mode, offering a unique driving experience. This technological marvel left me in awe, wondering how such advanced engineering could result in such exceptional performance.
**The Verdict**
Our racing adventure with the electric car was an unforgettable experience, showcasing its remarkable capabilities and innovative features. From the thrill of the launch to the precision of the brake test, every moment was filled with excitement and surprise. As we concluded our journey, it became clear that this vehicle was truly one-of-a-kind, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of electric cars.
**A New Appreciation for Electric Cars**
As I reflected on our adventure, I realized that my perception of electric cars had shifted significantly. Gone were the days of viewing them as slow and inefficient; these vehicles were now being recognized for their exceptional performance, agility, and innovative technology. The experience with Francis's car left me with a newfound appreciation for the potential of electric vehicles and a desire to explore more.
**Conclusion**
Our racing adventure with the electric car was an exhilarating experience that showcased its remarkable capabilities. With its made-up gearbox, simulated manual mode, and exceptional performance, this vehicle was truly a marvel of modern engineering. As we concluded our journey, I couldn't help but feel inspired by the potential of electric cars to revolutionize the world of motorsports.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat will win in a drag race between the new hyai ionic 5n and the Mercedes mg GT coupe 63 well we're going to find out cuz I'm going to race them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow let me tell you about this hyai ionic 5n so it has two electric motors one at the front one at the back so you got four-wheel drive and combined they put out 650 horsepower and 740 NT M of to however tips of scales at around 2.2 tons it's quite reasonably price considering how much power it's got 65,000 works out to the fact that you're paying £100 for every horse quite cheap horses anyway let's find out about that AMG from its driver it's Francis bouro who normally spots trains hi Francis how are you hello Matt I'm very well thanks how you finding it in there I feel like I'm in a rocket ship it's quite exciting isn't it do you know the stats on your car I do actually um and being a railway Enthusiast as well as a car Enthusiast um I'm able to reel off the fact that this car has 585 horsepower 800 NT M of torque four-wheel drive 9-speed automatic gearbox and it's probably going to press my head firmly against the headrest when I accelerate and it costs £160,000 and it weighs 2 tons which I'm quite surprised about wouldn't it be embarrassing if this beats it in a drag race well we're going to find out now before we do though if you haven't done so already please make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss our next upload and it's a good one I can assure you right in Francis what we're going to do now is the carow sound check so I'd like you to rev up your engine bit of a soft limiter but I think I'm going to hear some turbo action from the front a lot of it's coming through the speakers yeah from the outside it I can hear quite a bit though there is a bit of a soft limiter on it it's not too bad but yes it does come through the speakers but not quite in the same way that the revving sound comes through the speakers in my car because it does actually make internal combustion engine car sound noises despite the fact it's electric so I just press a button on the steering wheel like that and now now you won't be able to hear anything from where you are but listen to this like a video game it is kind of like a video game but I think it's going to be close this race so shall we get on and see which car is the fastest over the quarter mile uh I'm going to take my GoPro off now for health and safety reasons yeah you should definitely take it off so you can see where you're going it's for the best 3 2 2 1 oh I had him off the line oh hello oh my God Matt's beating me I thought he was going to come P me but then no w H oh my God ooh that was interesting so I think I launched a little bit earlier than you and then you started to pull back but then I thought you going to come past me but no can you see my hand I shouldn't worry mind do that all the time as well actually I like to do best two out of three just to be certain so do you fancy another go at it yes please yes please 3 2 1 oh my God he got a great launch there but I'm ring him back in he's catching what's this what's this witchcraft you got a great launch there Francis thank you Matt so did you that was very close I was actually surprised to see you pulling up on me I thought I had it then honestly m I thought you had it as well you got a brilliant launch amazing reactions odd but this one I didn't quite see it across the line I'm pretty sure this one I really I think it just had it on the line yeah wow impressive bit of Kit so then what exactly happened well the slow motion action replay reveals that the Hyandai was just ahead of the Mercedes on the Finish Line though both cars completed the standing qu Mile with a time of 11.4 4 seconds want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car wre to have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car that's the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for once you've done that we'll enter your car into an online auction when the auction's over will let you know the result and the dealer with the winning bid will be in touch to arrange easy payment and free collection of your car 93% of sellers surveyed said they got the price they expected or more through carwow the best bit is it's completely free I put a link in the description of this video and the Ping comment to take you directly to carwow where over 4,000 dealers are ready to bid on your car or you can just click on the pop out B that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video right then Francis what we're going to do is a rolling race from 30 mph you're going to start off in second gear and then you're going to have to do manual shifts okay I'm basically just going to floor it cuz I got an electric car okay actually do you know what I'm going to go in manual mode as well because this is an electric car that can mimic having gears it's got an artificial 8-speed madeup gearbox which is just bizarre does it have a madeup clutch as well it's all made up it's all just synthetic but it's kind of crazy and kind of cool so I'm going to do it 3 2 1 go this picks up so well oh we ni and neck but now I'm in fourth is pulling away oh my God and he beats me to the quarter Mall I've got him the gap of the half mile is going to be quite a lot you won it was close in the first like second and third gears then you started to just Gap me and it was game over it definitely felt like was uh pulling well through the gears I want to run that again reason being that when I'm in like manual mode it doesn't seem to be quite as quick as when you just going full EV and I've also got a special button that I can press when I'm in full EV which gives me an added boo so let's do the same thing again okay I think he's got to trick up his sleeve 3 two 1 go I press my button look at that that is different oh my God Matt's got me now look at that oh my God how is it so much quicker can I get another boost no I'm out of boost I'm going to beat you to the bluming wow wow that was different wasn't it what a difference that made it just seemed like it had another 100 brake horsepower now we're going to have a brake test from 100 mph when we reach the cones full emergency stopped the car that stops in the shortest distance wins if you'd rather watch another drag race involving that AMG click on the pop out Banner appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen or follow the QR code which you should see now if not stay here for the brake test cuz here it comes here comes the cones well my electric H ey beat your big powerful AMG in a Brak test Francis sorry I need a breather then I I don't I've never emergency stopped from 100 miles hour before I know it's crazy really isn't it you know what it's all so crazy just the performance of this car do you want to have a little go in it see what it feels like from the passenger seat yes please you ready okay three two one launch oh oh my God oh my God holy and then I want to show you this right so that's in like EV mode and if I press this button it goes into like simulated manual gearbox mode so look first gear I'm going to hit the RIT so bizarre red liit you hear the crackles as well from the exhaust not exhaust but speakers it's amazing how authentic it feels it's mad isn't it I wish I went to the L before I got oh dear so what do you think of that then absolutely Mega can I have a go what what do you mean what it be okay to have a go please like in a drag race um if yeah if possible having that versus feeling this as a passenger like the sensation of the launch is just totally different so I'd love to see how it feels from like a driving perspec absolutely let's do one more drag race then I'll drive the AMG and you can drive this three two 1 who close on the launch is he going to come past this is close come on Mercedes come on come on who oh my god wow oh Francis that was was brilliant driving we were neck and neck on the launch I got ahead and then you started to reel me back in oh you didn't quite pulled past me I don't think at the end it was so close though yeah that was brilliant proper bit of racing that it was a proper bit of racing listen huge thank you to the chap lent us that hind ey onic and I mean it's absolutely Mega this is Mega to some great times thanks to Francis for coming and joining in he's been a great driver putting some good times and I've had a good time oh you have two if you'd like to watch some more videos just click on the video windows and if you want to see how these cars quart mile times compared to everything else we've ever drag raced just click on the car wre logo and it take you directly there thanks for watchingwhat will win in a drag race between the new hyai ionic 5n and the Mercedes mg GT coupe 63 well we're going to find out cuz I'm going to race them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow let me tell you about this hyai ionic 5n so it has two electric motors one at the front one at the back so you got four-wheel drive and combined they put out 650 horsepower and 740 NT M of to however tips of scales at around 2.2 tons it's quite reasonably price considering how much power it's got 65,000 works out to the fact that you're paying £100 for every horse quite cheap horses anyway let's find out about that AMG from its driver it's Francis bouro who normally spots trains hi Francis how are you hello Matt I'm very well thanks how you finding it in there I feel like I'm in a rocket ship it's quite exciting isn't it do you know the stats on your car I do actually um and being a railway Enthusiast as well as a car Enthusiast um I'm able to reel off the fact that this car has 585 horsepower 800 NT M of torque four-wheel drive 9-speed automatic gearbox and it's probably going to press my head firmly against the headrest when I accelerate and it costs £160,000 and it weighs 2 tons which I'm quite surprised about wouldn't it be embarrassing if this beats it in a drag race well we're going to find out now before we do though if you haven't done so already please make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss our next upload and it's a good one I can assure you right in Francis what we're going to do now is the carow sound check so I'd like you to rev up your engine bit of a soft limiter but I think I'm going to hear some turbo action from the front a lot of it's coming through the speakers yeah from the outside it I can hear quite a bit though there is a bit of a soft limiter on it it's not too bad but yes it does come through the speakers but not quite in the same way that the revving sound comes through the speakers in my car because it does actually make internal combustion engine car sound noises despite the fact it's electric so I just press a button on the steering wheel like that and now now you won't be able to hear anything from where you are but listen to this like a video game it is kind of like a video game but I think it's going to be close this race so shall we get on and see which car is the fastest over the quarter mile uh I'm going to take my GoPro off now for health and safety reasons yeah you should definitely take it off so you can see where you're going it's for the best 3 2 2 1 oh I had him off the line oh hello oh my God Matt's beating me I thought he was going to come P me but then no w H oh my God ooh that was interesting so I think I launched a little bit earlier than you and then you started to pull back but then I thought you going to come past me but no can you see my hand I shouldn't worry mind do that all the time as well actually I like to do best two out of three just to be certain so do you fancy another go at it yes please yes please 3 2 1 oh my God he got a great launch there but I'm ring him back in he's catching what's this what's this witchcraft you got a great launch there Francis thank you Matt so did you that was very close I was actually surprised to see you pulling up on me I thought I had it then honestly m I thought you had it as well you got a brilliant launch amazing reactions odd but this one I didn't quite see it across the line I'm pretty sure this one I really I think it just had it on the line yeah wow impressive bit of Kit so then what exactly happened well the slow motion action replay reveals that the Hyandai was just ahead of the Mercedes on the Finish Line though both cars completed the standing qu Mile with a time of 11.4 4 seconds want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car wre to have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car that's the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for once you've done that we'll enter your car into an online auction when the auction's over will let you know the result and the dealer with the winning bid will be in touch to arrange easy payment and free collection of your car 93% of sellers surveyed said they got the price they expected or more through carwow the best bit is it's completely free I put a link in the description of this video and the Ping comment to take you directly to carwow where over 4,000 dealers are ready to bid on your car or you can just click on the pop out B that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video right then Francis what we're going to do is a rolling race from 30 mph you're going to start off in second gear and then you're going to have to do manual shifts okay I'm basically just going to floor it cuz I got an electric car okay actually do you know what I'm going to go in manual mode as well because this is an electric car that can mimic having gears it's got an artificial 8-speed madeup gearbox which is just bizarre does it have a madeup clutch as well it's all made up it's all just synthetic but it's kind of crazy and kind of cool so I'm going to do it 3 2 1 go this picks up so well oh we ni and neck but now I'm in fourth is pulling away oh my God and he beats me to the quarter Mall I've got him the gap of the half mile is going to be quite a lot you won it was close in the first like second and third gears then you started to just Gap me and it was game over it definitely felt like was uh pulling well through the gears I want to run that again reason being that when I'm in like manual mode it doesn't seem to be quite as quick as when you just going full EV and I've also got a special button that I can press when I'm in full EV which gives me an added boo so let's do the same thing again okay I think he's got to trick up his sleeve 3 two 1 go I press my button look at that that is different oh my God Matt's got me now look at that oh my God how is it so much quicker can I get another boost no I'm out of boost I'm going to beat you to the bluming wow wow that was different wasn't it what a difference that made it just seemed like it had another 100 brake horsepower now we're going to have a brake test from 100 mph when we reach the cones full emergency stopped the car that stops in the shortest distance wins if you'd rather watch another drag race involving that AMG click on the pop out Banner appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen or follow the QR code which you should see now if not stay here for the brake test cuz here it comes here comes the cones well my electric H ey beat your big powerful AMG in a Brak test Francis sorry I need a breather then I I don't I've never emergency stopped from 100 miles hour before I know it's crazy really isn't it you know what it's all so crazy just the performance of this car do you want to have a little go in it see what it feels like from the passenger seat yes please you ready okay three two one launch oh oh my God oh my God holy and then I want to show you this right so that's in like EV mode and if I press this button it goes into like simulated manual gearbox mode so look first gear I'm going to hit the RIT so bizarre red liit you hear the crackles as well from the exhaust not exhaust but speakers it's amazing how authentic it feels it's mad isn't it I wish I went to the L before I got oh dear so what do you think of that then absolutely Mega can I have a go what what do you mean what it be okay to have a go please like in a drag race um if yeah if possible having that versus feeling this as a passenger like the sensation of the launch is just totally different so I'd love to see how it feels from like a driving perspec absolutely let's do one more drag race then I'll drive the AMG and you can drive this three two 1 who close on the launch is he going to come past this is close come on Mercedes come on come on who oh my god wow oh Francis that was was brilliant driving we were neck and neck on the launch I got ahead and then you started to reel me back in oh you didn't quite pulled past me I don't think at the end it was so close though yeah that was brilliant proper bit of racing that it was a proper bit of racing listen huge thank you to the chap lent us that hind ey onic and I mean it's absolutely Mega this is Mega to some great times thanks to Francis for coming and joining in he's been a great driver putting some good times and I've had a good time oh you have two if you'd like to watch some more videos just click on the video windows and if you want to see how these cars quart mile times compared to everything else we've ever drag raced just click on the car wre logo and it take you directly there thanks for watching\n"