**Tesla Model S Plaid: A Game-Changing Drift Machine**

The Tesla Model S Plaid is a beast of a car, with 1020 horsepower and a top speed of 175 miles per hour. But what makes it truly unique is its ability to drift like no other electric car on the market. With Track Mode enabled, the Plaid transforms into a drift machine that can handle even the most aggressive driving.

**The Secret to Drifting**

So, how does the Model S Plaid manage to drift? The answer lies in its regenerative braking system, which allows for precise control over the car's speed and momentum. With Track Mode, Tesla has fine-tuned this system to deliver unparalleled grip and traction. Additionally, the Plaid's electric motor produces an incredible amount of torque, making it easy to accelerate hard and maintain speed through tight turns.

**Tackling the Canyons**

We put the Model S Plaid to the test on the infamous canyons track in California. With Track Mode enabled, we were able to unleash the car's full potential, feeling the rush of adrenaline as we pushed the car to its limits. The turning was incredible, with the rear wheels biting into the asphalt and the car handling like a dream. We even managed to get the tail loose, experiencing the thrill of a drift.

**Adaptive Suspension**

One of the most impressive features of the Model S Plaid is its adaptive suspension system, which has been retuned to be more responsive and firmer than ever before. This allows for better handling and control, particularly when cornering or braking hard. We noticed that the suspension was much lower in Track Mode, providing a more direct connection to the road.

**Regenerative Braking**

The Plaid's regenerative braking system is also noteworthy, allowing for instant regen braking at all times. This means that even when we were drifting aggressively, the car's brakes could engage and slow us down quickly, without any warning. We were able to push the car hard without overheating the brakes, thanks to Tesla's advanced cooling system.

**G-Forces**

The Model S Plaid is not just about speed; it's also a force to be reckoned with in terms of G-forces. Our lap times revealed an incredible 1.4g average, making this one of the most impressive cars we've ever driven. Even when drifting, we were able to maintain speeds of over 60mph.

**The Drift**

With all these features combined, it was only a matter of time before we decided to put the Model S Plaid through its paces on a drift track. We set up our camera and put Track Mode into play, ready to experience the thrill of drifting like never before. The result was nothing short of epic – whoa.

**Conclusion**

The Tesla Model S Plaid is a car that defies categorization. It's a car for the fearless, the brave, and those willing to push the limits. With its incredible performance, advanced features, and ability to drift, it's an unforgettable driving experience that will leave you speechless.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood morning ladies and gentlemen i hope you are having a fantastic day if you're new to the channel my name is parker nerenstein this is vehicle virgin and today we're going to determine if you can drift the tesla model s plaid even though it has that crazy yolk steering wheel some modifications come in soon for the plaid i cannot wait tesla has finally graced us with track mode which actually allows the model s plaid to drift the only question is what's that going to be like with this crazy steering wheel it seems a bit dangerous i guess we'll find out normally with drifting you can allow the wheel to slide through your hands but if you were to do that in this case you're grabbing for air speaking of safety tesla just announced a safety recall that affects 52 000 teslas so apparently tesla cars equipped with full self-driving beta actually had a rolling stop function built into the car so if the speed limit was less than 30 miles an hour and your car was doing full self-driving beta approaches a four-way stop sign if there's no other cars there apparently it would blow through the stop sign at 5.6 miles an hour not only is 5.6 miles an hour an extremely specific speed it does seem odd to program something that's completely illegal into the car from the factory now tesla states there haven't been any incidents caused by this but they're gonna do an over-the-air update to make sure that their teslas don't blow through stop signs now i'm sure this is just a coincidence but five days after i posted my review on the tesla model x plaid and complained about the location of the horn not actually having a real horn you have to touch this little button here tesla was caught testing a new steering wheel for the plaid with a built-in horn where the airbag is it is absolutely spectacular out today in the malibu canyons wow you know just tesla things self-driving in the canyons doesn't get any less scary oh my oh now before i attempt to drift the plaid legitimately for the first time you're to see my first attempt on camera i haven't tried it yet i want to go over all of the new features that track mode gives the vehicle and there are a lot of cool things and apparently it's supposed to make the driving experience in the canyons and on the track significantly better so i'm going to test that out first so to enter track mode go over to pedals and steering and it's in the same area that you would select drag strip mode now we know that drag strip mode cools down the battery packs as well as the motors for optimal acceleration but let's go ahead and click track mode once we click on track mode it'll give you a little warning that says it's only supposed to be used on track but absolutely not now once track mode is enabled over the course of a few minutes the tesla is going to significantly cool the batteries and motors to create a significant amount of chilled thermal mass then when the car actually heats up and generates excess heat there's actually a coolant loop between the motors and the batteries that helps chill the whole system down one of the biggest improvements is the tesla's torque vectoring abilities with traction control on it wasn't really all that effective but with track mode finally you can have independent control of both rear wheels for additional cornering abilities so they can send more power to the rear particularly maybe the outside rear wheel in order to help turn in that front end for better lateral grip and just overall enjoyment in the canyons they also have more intense regenerative brakes meaning when i let off the accelerator pedal the car is going to slow itself down much quicker than before this actually takes some of the stress off of the frictional brakes which means less heat generation which hopefully means less overheating brakes one of the coolest parts in my opinion though is the customizability of drive modes and torque split between the front and rear wheels and the customizability of the traction control system i've got a preset i created here called tokyo which is obviously for drifting but let's go ahead and make our own i don't know we'll call it vv how insane is this i can make the car nearly 100 front wheel drive it just gives 100 of the power to the front motors or 100 rear wheel drive in increments of five percent i mean what other car in the world other than the tesla model three can you do this on and check out the traction control management you can go all the way from negative 10 to plus 10 so you have 20 stage traction control and you can change the regenerative braking amount it even has an option for saving the dash cam video for your lap time speaking of lap times we've got this really cool graphic up on the display here that shows you lap times your split time as well as heating and cooling capacities of the car and g-forces i'm gonna set the car now to tesla's race preset and see what it's actually like to drive is there an improvement that i can feel in the tesla model s in the canyons with track mode i'm excited to try this out the car actually makes a lot of noise in track mode or drag strip mode it's kind of funny though the model s honestly really impressed me with its handling characteristics without track mode but let's see what it's like really pushing it with that added torque vectoring wow the turning is a lot better i got the tail loose a little bit there oh my gosh it's actually a massive massive improvement the car turns in almost like it has aggressive rear wheel steering that is epic and i love that it's allowing me to slide just a little bit i've got the traction control set to neutral so it's not all the way on it's not all the way off and it really gives me confidence through the turns now they've also uh retuned the adaptive suspension to be a little bit firmer more responsive and it also won't raise the suspension uh to make it more comfortable it'll just keep it at the lowest setting i can definitely feel the bumps a lot more in this mode than the standard suspension mode but man this thing is crazy i am impressed tesla wow all right i think it is time to go drift this thing you can also notice the regen braking a lot more it definitely slows the car down quicker as you guys can see i mean i'm driving it hard i'm hard on the brakes i've been driving this car aggressively all day there's no warnings that say brake temperature overheated it will actually tell you uh if the brakes have overheated whether you should slow down or not look at that all the g forces on this graph here look all the way up to 1.5 1.4 g's that's pretty crazy it's like a little art project let me make nfts out of these all right let's drip this tesla three things about the model s plaid make it very different to drift than any other car the first is the fact that it has 1020 horsepower that's serious it's a lot of power and it makes it a little bit more difficult to manage the second is because it's an electric car it only has one gear so if you floor the accelerator pedal all the way down for an extended period of time technically the wheels could spin up to its top speed of 175 miles an hour they actually bumped the top speed with track mode from 165 to 175 but if i kept it floored the tires could spin up to 175 versus if you're drifting in second gear maybe your car only goes 50 miles an hour in second gear so the tires can only spin 50 while you're drifting so you definitely have to be careful how much of the accelerator pedal you press down and the third thing is that crazy yolk steering wheel i don't know what this is going to be like but we're about to try it first time drifting the model s plaid i am freaking excited let's put on the point of view camera and show you what it looks like all right track mode customized let's go to tokyo drift mode oh man let's see what this thing is like guys legitimately the first time ever attempting to drift the model s plaid whoa whoa oh this is crazy holy moly all right that was not very good donuts but uh let's run it back oh my god holy crap driving this is uh intense but it clearly drifts and it is possible as you can see my hands are just a nightmare there there we go let's go that was sick good job tesla damn oh my gosh that was insane well the answer is you can absolutely drift the model s plaid using track mode i want to take the car actually to a drift track and really see what it's like obviously doing donuts isn't really drifting but it totally is capable it also takes a lot to get used to it is weird you don't know where to put your hands but i think with time you can actually drift this thing pretty pretty well well guys i hope you enjoyed today's video going over everything that track mode has to offer as well as the new recall and the new horn i hope you guys enjoyed today's video like always please browse the channel and subscribe mods coming soon to the tesla look forward to seeing you next video yougood morning ladies and gentlemen i hope you are having a fantastic day if you're new to the channel my name is parker nerenstein this is vehicle virgin and today we're going to determine if you can drift the tesla model s plaid even though it has that crazy yolk steering wheel some modifications come in soon for the plaid i cannot wait tesla has finally graced us with track mode which actually allows the model s plaid to drift the only question is what's that going to be like with this crazy steering wheel it seems a bit dangerous i guess we'll find out normally with drifting you can allow the wheel to slide through your hands but if you were to do that in this case you're grabbing for air speaking of safety tesla just announced a safety recall that affects 52 000 teslas so apparently tesla cars equipped with full self-driving beta actually had a rolling stop function built into the car so if the speed limit was less than 30 miles an hour and your car was doing full self-driving beta approaches a four-way stop sign if there's no other cars there apparently it would blow through the stop sign at 5.6 miles an hour not only is 5.6 miles an hour an extremely specific speed it does seem odd to program something that's completely illegal into the car from the factory now tesla states there haven't been any incidents caused by this but they're gonna do an over-the-air update to make sure that their teslas don't blow through stop signs now i'm sure this is just a coincidence but five days after i posted my review on the tesla model x plaid and complained about the location of the horn not actually having a real horn you have to touch this little button here tesla was caught testing a new steering wheel for the plaid with a built-in horn where the airbag is it is absolutely spectacular out today in the malibu canyons wow you know just tesla things self-driving in the canyons doesn't get any less scary oh my oh now before i attempt to drift the plaid legitimately for the first time you're to see my first attempt on camera i haven't tried it yet i want to go over all of the new features that track mode gives the vehicle and there are a lot of cool things and apparently it's supposed to make the driving experience in the canyons and on the track significantly better so i'm going to test that out first so to enter track mode go over to pedals and steering and it's in the same area that you would select drag strip mode now we know that drag strip mode cools down the battery packs as well as the motors for optimal acceleration but let's go ahead and click track mode once we click on track mode it'll give you a little warning that says it's only supposed to be used on track but absolutely not now once track mode is enabled over the course of a few minutes the tesla is going to significantly cool the batteries and motors to create a significant amount of chilled thermal mass then when the car actually heats up and generates excess heat there's actually a coolant loop between the motors and the batteries that helps chill the whole system down one of the biggest improvements is the tesla's torque vectoring abilities with traction control on it wasn't really all that effective but with track mode finally you can have independent control of both rear wheels for additional cornering abilities so they can send more power to the rear particularly maybe the outside rear wheel in order to help turn in that front end for better lateral grip and just overall enjoyment in the canyons they also have more intense regenerative brakes meaning when i let off the accelerator pedal the car is going to slow itself down much quicker than before this actually takes some of the stress off of the frictional brakes which means less heat generation which hopefully means less overheating brakes one of the coolest parts in my opinion though is the customizability of drive modes and torque split between the front and rear wheels and the customizability of the traction control system i've got a preset i created here called tokyo which is obviously for drifting but let's go ahead and make our own i don't know we'll call it vv how insane is this i can make the car nearly 100 front wheel drive it just gives 100 of the power to the front motors or 100 rear wheel drive in increments of five percent i mean what other car in the world other than the tesla model three can you do this on and check out the traction control management you can go all the way from negative 10 to plus 10 so you have 20 stage traction control and you can change the regenerative braking amount it even has an option for saving the dash cam video for your lap time speaking of lap times we've got this really cool graphic up on the display here that shows you lap times your split time as well as heating and cooling capacities of the car and g-forces i'm gonna set the car now to tesla's race preset and see what it's actually like to drive is there an improvement that i can feel in the tesla model s in the canyons with track mode i'm excited to try this out the car actually makes a lot of noise in track mode or drag strip mode it's kind of funny though the model s honestly really impressed me with its handling characteristics without track mode but let's see what it's like really pushing it with that added torque vectoring wow the turning is a lot better i got the tail loose a little bit there oh my gosh it's actually a massive massive improvement the car turns in almost like it has aggressive rear wheel steering that is epic and i love that it's allowing me to slide just a little bit i've got the traction control set to neutral so it's not all the way on it's not all the way off and it really gives me confidence through the turns now they've also uh retuned the adaptive suspension to be a little bit firmer more responsive and it also won't raise the suspension uh to make it more comfortable it'll just keep it at the lowest setting i can definitely feel the bumps a lot more in this mode than the standard suspension mode but man this thing is crazy i am impressed tesla wow all right i think it is time to go drift this thing you can also notice the regen braking a lot more it definitely slows the car down quicker as you guys can see i mean i'm driving it hard i'm hard on the brakes i've been driving this car aggressively all day there's no warnings that say brake temperature overheated it will actually tell you uh if the brakes have overheated whether you should slow down or not look at that all the g forces on this graph here look all the way up to 1.5 1.4 g's that's pretty crazy it's like a little art project let me make nfts out of these all right let's drip this tesla three things about the model s plaid make it very different to drift than any other car the first is the fact that it has 1020 horsepower that's serious it's a lot of power and it makes it a little bit more difficult to manage the second is because it's an electric car it only has one gear so if you floor the accelerator pedal all the way down for an extended period of time technically the wheels could spin up to its top speed of 175 miles an hour they actually bumped the top speed with track mode from 165 to 175 but if i kept it floored the tires could spin up to 175 versus if you're drifting in second gear maybe your car only goes 50 miles an hour in second gear so the tires can only spin 50 while you're drifting so you definitely have to be careful how much of the accelerator pedal you press down and the third thing is that crazy yolk steering wheel i don't know what this is going to be like but we're about to try it first time drifting the model s plaid i am freaking excited let's put on the point of view camera and show you what it looks like all right track mode customized let's go to tokyo drift mode oh man let's see what this thing is like guys legitimately the first time ever attempting to drift the model s plaid whoa whoa oh this is crazy holy moly all right that was not very good donuts but uh let's run it back oh my god holy crap driving this is uh intense but it clearly drifts and it is possible as you can see my hands are just a nightmare there there we go let's go that was sick good job tesla damn oh my gosh that was insane well the answer is you can absolutely drift the model s plaid using track mode i want to take the car actually to a drift track and really see what it's like obviously doing donuts isn't really drifting but it totally is capable it also takes a lot to get used to it is weird you don't know where to put your hands but i think with time you can actually drift this thing pretty pretty well well guys i hope you enjoyed today's video going over everything that track mode has to offer as well as the new recall and the new horn i hope you guys enjoyed today's video like always please browse the channel and subscribe mods coming soon to the tesla look forward to seeing you next video you\n"