It took gear heads a long time to come around to the idea of Tesla being a respectable performance brand, and many still won’t accept it. However, when it comes to making ultra-performance vehicles, they aren’t messing around, and keep proving themselves to be at the top of the game. One such example is the all-electric Tesla Model X.
This astonishingly fast, 5,000-pound vehicle is more than fast enough to gap plenty of muscle cars and sports cars, and hang with many more. The P100D just wanted to make sure you knew this by going out and setting a new quarter-mile record. As it turns out, this Tesla SUV is actually faster than the world’s fastest SUV, or alleged fastest SUV, the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk.
In one video, you can see the Model X beating up on the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk over four different races, but it was actually during the test run with the Tesla’s launch mode that the all-electric Model X P100D set a new quarter-mile record — it made a quarter-mile pass at 11.281-seconds at 118.37 miles per hour.
The Jeep Trackhawk was no wuss during its runs, making sub-12 second passes, but it just wasn’t enough to keep up with the Model X. We would like to be the first to welcome the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk to second place, well, maybe. It’s running very similar time to the Bentley Bentaya SUV, so maybe someone needs to set those two up on a track for a good ol’ fashioned showdown. But for now, the Tesla SUV is king of performance SUVs.