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Tesla Model X humbles Lamborghini Urus and Mercedes-AMG G63 in ultimate 4-way SUV drag race
There is just something incredibly satisfying about seeing all-electric cars standing toe-to-toe with vehicles that are designed optimally for speed and performance. Take a recent 4-way drag race featuring the Tesla Model X P100D and the Lamborghini Urus, the Mercedes-AMG G63, and the Range Rover Sport SVR, for example. With such a lineup of vehicles, the matchup is nothing short of the ultimate SUV drag race.
Among the Model X P100D’s opponents, the Lamborghini Urus is arguably the most interesting. The vehicle, after all, is an SUV built by one of the world’s most radical supercar makers. Equipped with a 4.0 liter V8 twin-turbo engine that produces 641 bhp, the Urus has supercar DNA flowing through its veins. This is evident in the SUV’s design, its sound, and its daunting stance. The Lamborghini Urus looks fast, and it is fast, capable of going from 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds.
The Mercedes-AMG G63, on the other hand, is pretty much an off-roader that has no business of being as fast as it is. Keeping with tradition, Mercedes-AMG kept the G63’s traditional boxy frame, giving the vehicle the appearance of a serious off-road vehicle, but compromising the SUV’s aerodynamics. Despite this, though, the Mercedes-AMG G63 is quick. Propelled forward by its 4.0-liter V8 twin-turbo engine that makes 563 hp, the German-made monster SUV could accelerate from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds.
The Range Rover Sport SVR is also a traditional SUV that just happens to be incredibly fast. Equipped with a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 engine that produces 575 hp, the British-made SUV is capable of hitting 60 mph in as little as 4.3 seconds. With all its muscle and surprising performance, Car and Driver even joked that the Range Rover Sport SVR is a vehicle that almost defies physics.
While the Lamborghini Urus, the Mercedes-AMG G63, and the Range Rover Sport SVR are formidable, the Tesla Model X P100D boasts impressive specs on its own. The seven-seater SUV is equipped with a 100 kWh battery and dual electric motors that produce a combined 772 hp. Thanks to the instant torque provided by its electric motors, the Model X P100D is capable of a supercar-beating 0-60 mph time of 2.9 seconds.
So what happens when Silicon Valley’s quickest SUV competes against the best of Germany, Italy, and Britain’s fastest SUVs? As it turns out, the Model X P100D does well — very, very well. The vehicles engaged each other in a classic drag race and a rolling race, and in both times, the Model X P100D came out on top. In the first race alone, the P100D immediately dropped the Urus hard, overtaking the beast from Italy off the line. At the end of the race, the Model X P100D completed the quarter mile in 11.3 seconds. The Lamborghini Urus ran the race in 11.9 seconds, while the Mercedes-AMG G63 crossed the quarter-mile mark in 12.3 seconds. The Range Rover Sport SVR was last, crossing the finish line in 12.9 seconds.
What is rather interesting is that the Model X P100D completely walked all over its opponents despite having only 186 miles of range left. That’s around 64% of its battery. Considering that Tesla’s electric cars perform better when their batteries are fully charged, the Model X P100D actually ended up dominating the 4-way ultimate SUV drag race on a handicap.
The Model X P100D has a long list of drag race victims under its belt. Earlier this year, the all-electric SUV also dominated one of America’s fastest SUVs — the 6.2-liter V8 Hellcat-powered Jeep Trackhawk. Just like the Lamborghini Urus, the Trackhawk was hailed as a massive SUV that is as fast as it looks. When faced with the Model X P100D, though, the vehicle proved inadequate to topple the seven-seater SUV.
Watch carwow’s 4-way ultimate SUV battle in the video below.
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Tesla Mobile App gets a new feature that wrap fans are going to love
Tesla’s Summer Update removes the USB drive step from customizing your car’s digital wrap design.
Tesla’s latest 2026 Summer Update quietly closes out one of the more tedious steps in personalizing a Tesla’s digital appearance. Uploading a custom wrap design used to require a USB drive. Now it doesn’t.
The feature is listed in Tesla’s release notes as “Send Custom Wraps from Mobile App.” The company described it plainly: “Skip the USB drive and upload a custom wrap of your car from the mobile app. Instructions for creating a custom wrap here: github.com/teslamotors/custom-wraps.”
The digital wrap tool has been around since Tesla’s 2024 Holiday Update, when it launched for Cybertruck owners first, as Teslarati reported at the time. Getting a design onto the car meant formatting a USB drive, creating a folder named exactly “Wraps,” dropping in PNG files sized between 512×512 and 1024×1024 pixels and under 1 MB each, then plugging the drive in and applying the wrap through Toybox. Tesla expanded the tool to other models and renamed it from “Colorizer” to “Paint Shop” with the 2025 Holiday Update, while also adding license plate and window tint customization alongside the wraps.
Custom wraps via mobile app https://t.co/5OydZ26g9p pic.twitter.com/uexU0ZePxu
— Tesla (@Tesla) July 22, 2026
The latest Summer Update removes the USB step from that process. Owners will be able to pull a design from wherever they saved it, whether that’s a download from social media or something built from Tesla’s own GitHub templates, and push it to the car directly through the app.
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It’s a small fix relative to the rest of this latest release, which also included expanded Grok voice commands, automatic navigation that learns regular routes, and self-driving stats inside the mobile app, all detailed in our rundown of the full Summer Update. The USB requirement was one of the more common complaints about Paint Shop since it launched. Tesla did not say when the wrap upload change would reach individual vehicles, only that the broader update is rolling out now in waves.
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Tesla Diner is throwing a birthday party with a Franz-signed special treat
Tesla Diner turns one on July 21 with Optimus, roller skates, and a Franz-signed hat.
Tesla is throwing its Hollywood Diner a first birthday party on July 21 and the celebration comes with a guest list of unique items, including a limited run of Tesla Diner birthday hats personally signed by Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen for the first 50 customers who place an in-car order at midnight.
One year after lines wrapped around the block on Santa Monica Boulevard for a diner that most of the restaurant industry did not take seriously, Tesla is making the case that the concept was worth the years it took to build. The concept had been in Musk’s head since at least 2018, when he floated the idea of “an old school drive-in, roller skates and rock restaurant” on X, describing it years later as “‘Grease’ meets ‘The Jetsons’ with Supercharging.”
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What made the diner genuinely different from any restaurant that came before it was not the menu or the nostalgia. It was the ordering model. Tesla owners could place food orders directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen before arriving, a small feature that hints at something much larger on the horizon. As the Cybercab and unsupervised FSD expand across major cities, the diner model becomes a template for an entirely new kind of commerce. A robotaxi pulling in to charge does not need a human to walk up to a counter. The vehicle places the order, the food is ready on arrival, and the passenger never interrupts the experience of being driven somewhere else. It is the first glimpse of what drive-through commerce looks like when the car is doing the driving.
As Teslarati has reported, Musk signaled immediately after opening that the Hollywood location was only the beginning, posting that Tesla would expand the concept to major cities worldwide and along Supercharger corridors on long-distance routes if the first location proved successful. One year in, the birthday celebration on July 21 makes a strong case that it has. Tesla announced a full day of events including a Cybercab on display, a birthday menu, Optimus in attendance, face painting, a photo booth, roller skating servers, a light show, a Skypad DJ, and complimentary collectibles.
If Musk’s ambition holds, the Hollywood diner is year one of something much bigger. The birthday party is the proof of concept. The robotaxi fleet is the business model waiting behind it.
Tesla Diner is turning 1 on July 21st, so we’re throwing a party
Come swing by for a day full of fun:
– Cybercab on display
– Birthday menu
– @Tesla_Optimus
– Face painting for kids & adults
– Photo booth
– Servers on roller skates delivering your order
– Light show
– Skypad DJ… pic.twitter.com/TD8pOjihYs— Tesla North America (@tesla_na) July 18, 2026
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NTSB findings on fatal Tesla crash tell a very different story
The NTSB confirmed the driver, not Tesla’s FSD, caused the fatal Texas house crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board released preliminary findings Wednesday confirming that a Tesla driver, not the vehicle’s software, caused a fatal crash in Katy, Texas in June. The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler, had engaged Full Self-Driving Supervised mode on Rose Hollow Lane, a residential street with a 30 mph speed limit, before manually overriding the system by pressing the accelerator pedal all the way to 100%. Data recovered from the 2025 Tesla Model 3 showed the vehicle was traveling over 70 miles per hour when it struck a home and killed 76-year-old Martha Avila, who was inside. Weather was clear, the road was dry, and it was daylight.
Texas man charged in fatal Tesla crash where he blamed Autopilot
Butler told authorities he had passed out at the wheel. But security camera footage obtained by the NTSB told a different story, and showed the car accelerating through an intersection before leaving the road entirely. Police also found that Butler’s phone had Google searches including the terms “Tesla FSD not aggressive enough 2026” and “Tesla FSD too timid,” raising serious questions about how he was using the system before the crash. Butler has since been charged with manslaughter. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against both Butler and Tesla, alleging negligence.
The NTSB findings aligned directly with what Tesla VP of AI Software Ashok Elluswamy had already stated publicly on X in the weeks after the crash, writing that “the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.” The data confirmed his account.
Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.
— Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy) June 22, 2026
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