Hot electro hatchback costs Tesla puts the record on Nurburgring, and Volkswagen is thinking about the hot hatch ID.3 R

18 September 2019

Tesla significantly ahead of Volkswagen with the release of the electric hot hatchback

The "charged" hot-hatch Tesla Model S Plaid will appear in the series in October-November of the following year.

The prototype of "charged" electro hatchback costs Resla Model S Plaid cranking laps on the Nurburgring

  wrote in his Twitter head of the company Tesla Inc. Elon Musk. Characteristically, at the same time, the network appeared new information about time lap on the nürburgring prototypes of this version. While officially the company Tesla has not announced it. While volunteer timekeepers assure that the best circle met at 7:23 (as reported by German magazine Auto Motor und Sport). The Musk also responded to these messages, and although he did not mention the exact figures, but said: "This is just the beginning. We expect that this time will be beaten in the serial version."

Prototype Model S Plaid even used custom rubber Goodyear 

Prototypes of the Model S Plaid at the Nurburgring in shifts drove the team of professional pilots, composed of German Thomas Mute and Sweden's Andreas Simonsen and Karl Rydqvist.
Observers note that the electric Model S Plaid at the nürburgring – is that it is the prototype with the hastily introduced changes. Moreover, in the last races on the "trains" were used non-serial tyres: Michelin Cup instead of R 2 used Goodyear Eagle F1 Supersport RS with a unique profile that does not exist in the signature manufacturer. Presumably, tyres from Goodyear provided Tesla experienced or a special version of this model tires.
Elon Musk also said that Model S received the larger third seat in the trunk (seven-seater configuration), which should eliminate the problem for more passengers. But, more importantly, Tesla's chief confirmed the new "Eska" will receive as many as three electric motors (!) – one in front and two behind, whereas now there are only two even in the top version P100D. As much to get and the upcoming Roadster.
In addition, Musk told that the "charged" version of Model X and Roadster will appear later Model S Plaid. And here is such a "hot" Roadster and will be able to beat the Nurburgring record for production road models, which since last summer with the figure 6:44.97 keeps coupe the Lamborghini Avendator SVJ.

Yet VW serial ID.3 limited to the 204-horsepower engine

In turn, the Volkswagen Group with the release of "hot" electro hatchback costs ID.3 R cautious, postponing it, at all, for five years.

At the plant in Zwickau launch a series of model ID.3. Later all three conveyor lines will work on the issue of electric vehicles

   This information to the English magazine Autocar said the head of Volkswagen sales Juergen Stakman and chief research and development Frank Welsch. So, Stackman said: "We really think what to do with such "charged" versions, because if you stand on the road to zero emissions, it is difficult to imagine, at the same time you release more and more powerful machines. We need to define what "R" in electrical world and this concept is different from what we know about the "R" on the Golf or any other car."

MEB platform for electric cars is so impressed with the global auto industry that Ford Motor said yesterday that he wants to release on her not one but two models in order by 2025 to reach a volume of at least 0.6 million of electric vehicles in Europe

In turn, Welch explained: "We need a four-wheel drive and an efficient electric motor. So that this version definitely won't be called GTI. See if "R" or something else".
However, such doubts "of volkswagenaa" on the background of the battle described above, "charged" Tesla Model S Plaid with serial Taycan Porsche at the Nurburgring, seem to be too conservative, because to promote ID.3 R nothing new to invent is not necessary, because the modular platform MEB is initially designed to accommodate the traction motors as the rear and front wheels that already prodemonstrirovano on several concepts VW, for example, electrotransfer ID.Crozz and sedan ID.Vizzion, which will be launched in the series, respectively, in 2020 and 2022.

Over ID.3 R "Volkswagen", work deeper, and not just add another motor in the front, however, this option is likely to be the standard ID.3 

This "spice" will create a reconfiguration of the whole structure of the electric vehicle. According to Welch is the current standard 150-kilowatt ID.3 accelerates to hundreds of slower Golf GTI and starts to lag only when further acceleration. So that the magicians speed of VW need to come up with for ID.3 R something enticing, because after five years of "hot" analogs he will abound..