The Art of Drag Racing: A Porsche vs Alfa Romeo Showdown

In this thrilling episode of drag racing, we put two high-performance cars to the test on the quarter mile. The first car up for review is the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, and it's clear that the manufacturer has done an impressive job with this vehicle. With its PDK gearbox, the Porsche launches off the line like a rocket, leaving all other competitors in its dust.

The Porsche's launch control system seems to be working flawlessly, as it quickly takes the car from 0 to 60 miles per hour in a mere 2.9 seconds. This is an impressive feat, especially considering that the Porsche is not equipped with the same level of launch control technology as some of its competitors. However, this is where the Porsche's greatest strength also becomes its weakest link - its incredible acceleration makes it difficult to slow down once you've passed the starting line.

The Alfa Romeo, on the other hand, seems to be lagging behind the Porsche in terms of performance. With a slightly slower launch time and less impressive acceleration numbers, it's clear that this car is not as well-suited for drag racing. However, we should note that the Alfa Romeo did manage to complete the quarter mile in 12 seconds dead, which is still an impressive feat.

Despite its lackluster performance, the Alfa Romeo seems to be holding its own against the Porsche, particularly when it comes to maintaining speed throughout the quarter mile. This suggests that the car's engine and transmission are working well together, even if they can't quite match the Porsche's raw acceleration.

The Porsche, meanwhile, seems to be struggling with its brakes, particularly after launching off the line. It takes a few more seconds for the car to slow down, which could be a concern in certain racing situations.

Rolling Race: Porsche Cayenne Turbo vs Alfa Romeo

In this rolling race, we put both cars on the track and saw how they would perform over a longer distance. The Porsche was initially ahead of the Alfa Romeo but struggled with its brakes, allowing the Italian car to catch up and eventually take the lead.

The Porsche's kickdown in first gear seemed to be working well, but it ultimately couldn't maintain its advantage over the Alfa Romeo as the two cars hurtled down the track. The Alfa Romeo's superior acceleration and handling made it the clear winner of this rolling race.

Brake Test: Porsche Cayenne Turbo vs Alfa Romeo

In this final challenge, we put both cars to the test by hitting 70 miles per hour and then slamming on the brakes as hard as possible. The Alfa Romeo's carbon ceramic brakes proved to be the decisive factor here, allowing it to stop in a shorter distance than the Porsche.

The Porsche's brakes were impressive, but ultimately couldn't match the Alfa Romeo's superior stopping power. This suggests that the Italian car is better suited for certain types of racing, particularly those that require precise control and handling.

The Audi: A Disappointing Performance

One of the cars we considered putting up against the Porsche and Alfa Romeo was actually an Audi model. However, due to some technical issues with the vehicle's launch control system, it ultimately didn't perform as well as expected.

Despite its impressive acceleration numbers, the Audi struggled to get off the line quickly enough, which put it at a significant disadvantage in the quarter mile. The car's brake test performance was also disappointing, particularly when compared to the Alfa Romeo's superior stopping power.

Conclusion

In this thrilling episode of drag racing, we saw two high-performance cars go head-to-head on the quarter mile. While the Porsche Cayenne Turbo proved to be a formidable opponent in terms of raw acceleration, its lackluster brake test performance and struggle with handling made it difficult to win the overall challenge.

The Alfa Romeo, on the other hand, demonstrated impressive acceleration and handling throughout the entire race, ultimately emerging as the winner of both the quarter mile and rolling races. Its superior braking performance also gave it an edge in the final challenge.

Ultimately, this episode of drag racing shows that there's no one-size-fits-all approach to winning on the track. Each car has its strengths and weaknesses, and it's up to the driver to exploit those differences to achieve success.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone I'm Matt Watson here so I've got a great drag race for you today I'm in the new Porsche Macan turbo next to me is an alpha stereo Quadrifoglio next to that is new audi RS q3 Sportback and of course we are going to have a drag race so this car has a 2.9 liter twin-turbo v6 with 440 horsepower and 550 Newton meters of torque it's got a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control and four-wheel drive of course and it weighs just over two tons now that Alfa also has a 2.9 liter twin-turbo v6 only it's got 510 horsepower and 600 Newton meters of torque it sends power to all four wheels via an 8-speed automatic gearbox no launch control but it is quite light for a big car it's 1.8 tonnes now the far end we've got that little OD may seem have its depth really but it's not you see it's 2.5 litre five-cylinder turbo puts out 400 horsepower and 480 Newton meters of torque it sends power to all four wheels by a Quattro all-wheel drive it's a 7 speed automatic gearbox with launch control but it's the lightest here 1.7 tonnes and that could help even things up I tell you what else evens things up you see that Aldi costs from 52 thousand pounds which means it's quite a bit cheap in this Porsche which is around 69 thousand pounds our alpha is 70 grand will you feel that much difference in performance for the difference in price speaking of prize if you want to see how much money you can save on a new car click on the pop-out banner up there to go to car where you can compare offers and deals on a range of different cars or just Google car wow it's your go to car comparison website speaking of comparisons let's compare how these cars sound I'm going to do a little bit of an engine noise test make sure this has the sport exhaust in load mode it's what it sounds like got a soft limiter but fairly fruity let's compare it to the Alpha let's have some read from the Alpha and see what it sounds like that is pretty sweet as well finally they let someone listen to the Audi I do like a 5-cylinder noise all these cars to me sound great I don't know which one sounds the best I liked me to tell it sat inside this car you guys have heard it let me know in the comments box below now if you love drag racing make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you will not miss a single one of our awesome drag races and hey if you want to follow me on instagram it's at Matt watts and cars right then let's go with the race now before we race we should technically warm up these cars tires so I'll never go and put this car into sports mode turn off the stability control and see just what this thing is like for drifting can you drift it I don't know let's find out oh yeah haha Porsche power I think these tires have nicely warmed up let's jump me to the next car here we go not as easy as the Porsche seems to still have the SP working away a little bit there's no button to turn it off for lease especially off in race mode but it's not let's try the UD where'd it go oh no it's just a bit of understand that's one of the go no no that's embarrassing let's just stop this well the Porsche definitely won the drift off let's see how it does in the drag race let's do it all of us brilliant star come on push that stuff you've got bad star but it's coming now can I beat it to the line come on come on come on poor she's so good come on boys come on boys come on launch control of this is wicked forgot about the Audi it's not between me the still vo what happened alpha this thing launched like is basically flicked off the line the PDK gearbox in this you can just guarantee it's gonna do the business what happened to the audi well then pause good old launch control it's the best ones control in the business telling you I'm gonna give the alpha another chance I'm still confident in this Porsche let's see brilliant again boom it's a bit tight at this time he's coming again he's coming come on now come on come on now come on Oh same result closer I'm always smashing him off the line it's just the way this thing launches is brilliant same result Alfa did you I think you did well I don't know then he thinks he won that race I think I did click on the pop-up banner up there to vote which car you think won this or the offer so then what exactly happened well the Porsche just beat the Alfa by the narrowest of margins though they both did the standing quarter mile in 12 seconds dead the ID was almost a second behind them completing the quarter mile in 12 point 9 seconds all right now we've got a rolling race but if you'd rather watch another drag race and click on the pop-out band up there to watch a Porsche Cayenne Turbo against the beam to do x4m anyway causing comfort mode we're just cruising along gearbox is an automatic I'm gonna call it in from 50 miles an hour you ready guys here we go three two one go this kicks down really well but so far all the alphas off now it's superior power is telling let's take the launch out of the equation that boy is off that out is doing all right you know it's kind of just got dropped at first and then it's sort of just staying stay is quo the Alpha is a clear winner here though that's enough of that I think we know what happened there I must say the kickdown in that Alf Romero was really good how was it in the Audi yeah I think you're right was pretty consistent once we got the gaps or there because I think this gearbox kicked down faster than yours it was just level pegging but that alpha was the clear winner there no doubt about it so it's watching the Porsche watch the Alfa they stood another rolling race now I'm gonna do the same thing but this time cause when sports mode and locked in third gear I'm gonna count it in you ready guys three two one go pickups grey on this time to get the alphas off and that out is doing so well there's nothing between us really I've got the initial jump is he coming back and they keep going come on Porsche he's coming back against me he's coming back going to find a little bit of a second wind but now it's static he's not going to come past and I'm heating ahead again that's enough guys heart breaks heart breaks that is the end of the runway ha ha brakes brakes right once again alpha you won that you got more power simple as I already really impressed me in that race so though you're going to come past at one point but your second wind kind of run out of steam dammit definitely for the money as well it's a lot cheaper than these two anyway final challenge let's see how well they can stop shall we now it comes to the break test when we hit the line full emergency stop we're doing it from 70 miles an hour which car will stop in the shortest distance let's see what happens miss admit does have the upgraded carbon ceramics but never mind that that is a big difference heaviest but it stopped in the shortest distance when I stomped on the brake it was just like bang straight on it amazing brakes it actually it's up my neck a bit drag race word and the brake test really impressive mighty what else is impressive I find it an amazing deal on one of these three cars on car whoa now if you click on the pop-up banner up there you can see which car it is and the insane saving that is available on it it is nut so go check that if you want to if you don't want to no problem go watch one of our the drag races and don't forget to subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notification on so you're alerted whenever we make a new upload because you'll get more great content lies if you enjoyed this video please subscribe to this channel for more videos and if you click on the deals box to the right you can see how much you can save on a new car at car web or click on the video windows below to watch another of my videoshi everyone I'm Matt Watson here so I've got a great drag race for you today I'm in the new Porsche Macan turbo next to me is an alpha stereo Quadrifoglio next to that is new audi RS q3 Sportback and of course we are going to have a drag race so this car has a 2.9 liter twin-turbo v6 with 440 horsepower and 550 Newton meters of torque it's got a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control and four-wheel drive of course and it weighs just over two tons now that Alfa also has a 2.9 liter twin-turbo v6 only it's got 510 horsepower and 600 Newton meters of torque it sends power to all four wheels via an 8-speed automatic gearbox no launch control but it is quite light for a big car it's 1.8 tonnes now the far end we've got that little OD may seem have its depth really but it's not you see it's 2.5 litre five-cylinder turbo puts out 400 horsepower and 480 Newton meters of torque it sends power to all four wheels by a Quattro all-wheel drive it's a 7 speed automatic gearbox with launch control but it's the lightest here 1.7 tonnes and that could help even things up I tell you what else evens things up you see that Aldi costs from 52 thousand pounds which means it's quite a bit cheap in this Porsche which is around 69 thousand pounds our alpha is 70 grand will you feel that much difference in performance for the difference in price speaking of prize if you want to see how much money you can save on a new car click on the pop-out banner up there to go to car where you can compare offers and deals on a range of different cars or just Google car wow it's your go to car comparison website speaking of comparisons let's compare how these cars sound I'm going to do a little bit of an engine noise test make sure this has the sport exhaust in load mode it's what it sounds like got a soft limiter but fairly fruity let's compare it to the Alpha let's have some read from the Alpha and see what it sounds like that is pretty sweet as well finally they let someone listen to the Audi I do like a 5-cylinder noise all these cars to me sound great I don't know which one sounds the best I liked me to tell it sat inside this car you guys have heard it let me know in the comments box below now if you love drag racing make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you will not miss a single one of our awesome drag races and hey if you want to follow me on instagram it's at Matt watts and cars right then let's go with the race now before we race we should technically warm up these cars tires so I'll never go and put this car into sports mode turn off the stability control and see just what this thing is like for drifting can you drift it I don't know let's find out oh yeah haha Porsche power I think these tires have nicely warmed up let's jump me to the next car here we go not as easy as the Porsche seems to still have the SP working away a little bit there's no button to turn it off for lease especially off in race mode but it's not let's try the UD where'd it go oh no it's just a bit of understand that's one of the go no no that's embarrassing let's just stop this well the Porsche definitely won the drift off let's see how it does in the drag race let's do it all of us brilliant star come on push that stuff you've got bad star but it's coming now can I beat it to the line come on come on come on poor she's so good come on boys come on boys come on launch control of this is wicked forgot about the Audi it's not between me the still vo what happened alpha this thing launched like is basically flicked off the line the PDK gearbox in this you can just guarantee it's gonna do the business what happened to the audi well then pause good old launch control it's the best ones control in the business telling you I'm gonna give the alpha another chance I'm still confident in this Porsche let's see brilliant again boom it's a bit tight at this time he's coming again he's coming come on now come on come on now come on Oh same result closer I'm always smashing him off the line it's just the way this thing launches is brilliant same result Alfa did you I think you did well I don't know then he thinks he won that race I think I did click on the pop-up banner up there to vote which car you think won this or the offer so then what exactly happened well the Porsche just beat the Alfa by the narrowest of margins though they both did the standing quarter mile in 12 seconds dead the ID was almost a second behind them completing the quarter mile in 12 point 9 seconds all right now we've got a rolling race but if you'd rather watch another drag race and click on the pop-out band up there to watch a Porsche Cayenne Turbo against the beam to do x4m anyway causing comfort mode we're just cruising along gearbox is an automatic I'm gonna call it in from 50 miles an hour you ready guys here we go three two one go this kicks down really well but so far all the alphas off now it's superior power is telling let's take the launch out of the equation that boy is off that out is doing all right you know it's kind of just got dropped at first and then it's sort of just staying stay is quo the Alpha is a clear winner here though that's enough of that I think we know what happened there I must say the kickdown in that Alf Romero was really good how was it in the Audi yeah I think you're right was pretty consistent once we got the gaps or there because I think this gearbox kicked down faster than yours it was just level pegging but that alpha was the clear winner there no doubt about it so it's watching the Porsche watch the Alfa they stood another rolling race now I'm gonna do the same thing but this time cause when sports mode and locked in third gear I'm gonna count it in you ready guys three two one go pickups grey on this time to get the alphas off and that out is doing so well there's nothing between us really I've got the initial jump is he coming back and they keep going come on Porsche he's coming back against me he's coming back going to find a little bit of a second wind but now it's static he's not going to come past and I'm heating ahead again that's enough guys heart breaks heart breaks that is the end of the runway ha ha brakes brakes right once again alpha you won that you got more power simple as I already really impressed me in that race so though you're going to come past at one point but your second wind kind of run out of steam dammit definitely for the money as well it's a lot cheaper than these two anyway final challenge let's see how well they can stop shall we now it comes to the break test when we hit the line full emergency stop we're doing it from 70 miles an hour which car will stop in the shortest distance let's see what happens miss admit does have the upgraded carbon ceramics but never mind that that is a big difference heaviest but it stopped in the shortest distance when I stomped on the brake it was just like bang straight on it amazing brakes it actually it's up my neck a bit drag race word and the brake test really impressive mighty what else is impressive I find it an amazing deal on one of these three cars on car whoa now if you click on the pop-up banner up there you can see which car it is and the insane saving that is available on it it is nut so go check that if you want to if you don't want to no problem go watch one of our the drag races and don't forget to subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notification on so you're alerted whenever we make a new upload because you'll get more great content lies if you enjoyed this video please subscribe to this channel for more videos and if you click on the deals box to the right you can see how much you can save on a new car at car web or click on the video windows below to watch another of my videos\n"