It's an infantile obsession, but who doesn't love dropping the hammer and seeing the rearview mirror fill with tire smoke? Well, I suppose the honest answer is most of the world that never clicks on our website. But here you are, so let's take a look at 15 vehicles capable of routing an almost surreal amount of force to their hapless contact patches.
15) Tesla Model S P85D
At 687 lb-ft of torque, Elon's mighty electric
ranks seventh in terms of peak torque, so how did it end up on the bottom of
this list? Simple. The one-speed transmission gearing provides by far the
second-lowest torque multiplication of any driveline in this grouping.
1,311 pounds of force per tire
14) Porsche 918 Spyder
Our 13th-place finisher in overall torque also
ranks seventh in torque multiplication, and of course it's also dividing its
total torque four ways, so its position as 14th on this list comes as little
surprise. The consolation is its second-best showing in quarter-mile
acceleration, at 10.0 seconds at 145.2 mph.
1,537 pounds of force per tire
13) 2005 Bugatti Veyron 16.4
What?! How is it that 922 lb-ft of twist can only
manage to whip up a pitiful three-quarters of a ton of force for each of its
precious and peculiarly dimensioned Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 PAX tires? Bugatti
prioritized top speed over stoplight sprinting, and its seven ratios are fairly
evenly spaced, so its first gear boasts the highest overall gearing (10.1
mph/1,000 rpm) of any vehicle on this list, including the one-speed Tesla.
1,570 pounds of force per tire
12) Dodge Viper GTS
Our first rear-drive entrant on the list produces
"just" 600 lb-ft (at a heady 5,000 rpm), and routes it through the
second tallest first-gear ratio of the bunch (9.2 mph/1,000 rpm). This
compromises its acceleration slightly (fifth-quickest quarter-miler on this
list despite second-best weight-to-power ratio) and also blunts its burnout
brilliance.
2,255 pounds of force per rear tire.
11) Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD
The "weakest" of our list's heavy-duty
pickups makes 765 lb-ft of twist, ranking it fifth overall in terms of torque.
And because it's a dualie, you'll struggle mightily to do a burnout in 4WD
mode, but drop it into RWD mode and you can send 2,450 pounds of abuse to each
of the four tires on the rear axle.
2,450 pounds of force per corner.
10) Ram 3500 Heavy Duty
Ranking third in total torque at 850 lb-ft, this
4WD stump-yanker also boasts the tallest gearing of the pickup trucks. This
spares the tires some trauma and gives the Ford Super Duty, which only makes 10
more lb-ft, a huge advantage in first-gear pulling power.
2,525 pounds of force per corner
9) Chevrolet Corvette Z06/Z07
America's sports car turns its tenth-place torque rating into a ninth-place tire-trauma rating with mid-pack gearing — and rest assured, 1.6 tons of force per tire is more than ample to get two-turnin' and two-burnin'.3,223 pounds of force per rear tire
8) Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG
3,320 pounds of force per rear tire
7) Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
3,358 pounds of force per rear tire
6) McLaren P1
3,825 pounds of force per rear tire
5) Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black
3,845 pounds of force per rear tire
4) Ford F-450 Super Duty
Our highest placing truck gets here by routing the second-highest peak torque (860 lb-ft at 1,600 rpm) through the shortest gearing of this group (5.4 mph/1,000 rpm in first). Naturally it's a dualie, so there's a lot of rubber to get spinning here, even when the 9,083-pound truck's bed is empty. Still, if you're looking to leave four stripes, this is the rig — especially if you switch off the nannies, leave it in rear-drive mode, brake-torque the engine, and send 4.3 tons of force to each rear corner.4,129 pounds of force to each corner
3) Mercedes-Maybach S600
Not shockingly, wretchedly excessive limos for the one-percenters top our list here, with the (comparatively) least ostentatious of the three fittingly slotted into third place. Its whisper-quiet twin-turbo V-12 produces 523 hp and 612 lb-ft. (Note that the horses outnumber the lb-ft in most in-your-face performers, and the strong and silent types such as this one usually reverse that.)4,321 pounds of force to each rear tire
2) Rolls-Royce Wraith
This most sporting of Rolls-Royces indicates its
performance bona fides by producing 624 horses and a mere 590 lb-ft of torque
(lowest on this list). With only two drive wheels to spread those lb-ft between
and the fourth-best gearing in terms of torque multiplication, the Rolls
thrusts its retractable Flying Lady hood ornament ahead into second place in
the tire-force race. (It finishes tenth in a drag race.)4,860 pounds of force to each rear tire
1) Bentley Mulsanne Speed
Note the 41 percent increase in force at the contact patch between the second-place Wraith and this new Mulsanne Speed. The Bentley Boys (and girls) ain't playin'. They came to this challenge to win, wringing heavy-duty pickup truck levels of torque (811 lb-ft at 1,750 rpm) from an ancient pushrod "six-and-three-quarta' leeta'" V-8. Of course the lazyish way it makes that thrust (power peaks at just 530 horses) means this three-ton Tessie will finish in twelfth place in our unofficial World's Most Expensive Drag Race, with a time slip reading 13.6 seconds at 103.3 mph. When the 99 percent pick up their pitchforks and torches, hop in one of these and leave them in a cloud of tire smoke.6,841 pounds of force to each rear tire.
Source: MotorTrend
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