The person covered in the most bees (1.1 million bees, to be precise).
Heaviest weight lifted by a human beard (140 pounds).
Fastest motorized garbage can (42 mph).
There are some weird world records out there. Even in the automotive world. Most people inside one production car, for instance (41 in a 2014 Toyota Rav4, according to a Guinness World Records entry we choose not to believe). But there’s always room for one more weird record.
Porsche, for instance, just smashed the land speed record. The indoor land speed record.
Porsche racing driver Leh Keen drove 102.65 mph inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Guinness rules require that the run begin and end at a complete stop and be completed entirely indoors.
An all-electric 2021 Porsche Taycan Turbo S with all-wheel drive and optional carbon-ceramic brakes was used for the run.
Slick Floor a Challenge
Keen revealed that the polished concrete floor of the convention center was the biggest challenge he faced. “The surface is so unpredictable, so slick, that you have to have complete trust in your car. It truly was like ice – and you’re accelerating flat out, facing a really hard wall at the end. Suddenly, even in a massive space like the one we had, it seems very small,” he said. “I could feel the Taycan’s systems figuring it out, working so hard to keep me heading straight – it was such an impressive feat. To accelerate so hard on such an erratic surface was incredible.”
The run is obviously a publicity stunt, but, we’ll point out, serves to demonstrate something unique about electric cars. The nature of an electric motor makes 100 percent of its power available immediately, with none of the buildup necessary in gasoline-powered cars. That trait gives the Taycan a 0-to-60 time of just 2.6 seconds…and lets it get up to 102 mph and back down to zero inside an unusually large building.
Thus, as impressive as the Taycan’s feat is, it might even be beatable. Tesla claims that the Plaid edition of its latest Model S accelerates to 60 mph in just under two seconds. Elon…you busy?
The Taycan Turbo S starts at $185,000.
