911topanamera

Yea I've seen this as well and read about it. With "e-launch mode" and the message displayed the car should launch from 0-60 in 7.6 seconds with no ICE and with true "launch control" mode with the message displayed the car should be 0-60 in 4.4 seconds (ICE+BATTERY). I'll try to find where I read it last. But both modes should have displays that come up on the cluster.

911topanamera

Was mistaken, 0-60 in 5.7 seconds with e-launch

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/auto/2...CAD-03-10aaj8j

K777

Thanks, I suppose its obvious ( ) , I will give it a try, albeit not next to a Tesla !

MrOhnoez

Yeah we had some weird issues trying to activate launch control on our Lot Turbo S E-Hybrid.
We eventually got it to work by just doing the same process over and over again...
Kinda funny it immediately worked as one of our salesman got out of the car.
It would launch hard every time we tried it but it definitely didn't have the electric assist.
we finally got a full fledged launch after about 10 minutes of driving.
Possibly something to do with the batteries being to a proper temperature?

mutiny22183

Interesting. Did the "Launch Control Activated" message display on the dash? I could not get it to display after a few tries, but the car did launch. One thing I also noticed as mentioned in my previous post, when I have my left foot down on the break, and right foot hard on the gas, the engine would not rev higher than 3000 rpm. In all of the online launch control videos I've seen, the engine revs at ~5000 rpm before launch. What were your observations?

Thanks!

MrOhnoez

Yes it did actually show. Even when not giving us the prompt it let us rev up to about 3.5k but wouldn't give us the message or the full fledged launch.
Once we got it, we did in fact have the message and the proper launch. Spun all 4 tires in 1st gear and even spun em a bit in 2nd on all seasons LOL
Pretty fun

SaratogaLefty

At the LA Driving Experience we did E Launch and Full Sport + launch. For E-Launch you should have the "Boost Control" screen visible and you will see a grey circle (actually not a complete circle) with a line approximately at 2:00 on the dial. You hold the brake and push the pedal down until just before the line is reached and then you hold the gas pedal there and release the brake. You will then do a full force E Launch and remain in electric as long as you don't depress the gas pedal any further. Pretty impressive but nowhere near as impressive as the Sport + Launch.

K777

Unless I did it wrong, it was a bit of a damp squib, and cant really see why I would use it or even the point of it, certainly not when sport+ launch is available - and does what you expect from a launch(fastest possible acceleration)

Carlover

paul29

So much for gently breaking it in!!

Carlover

blood4dracula

I have a regular Turbo that I did European Delivery over the summer.
In Europe I did several launch controls with a blue message display.
A week ago I picked up the car at my local dealer US side. Yesterday I tried launch control, no message was displayed, it reved ~3k rpms and that was it. The launch clearly was much weaker.
I was told in Germany that once US side the car will be "preped" for US delivery which also includes some software updates.
I will reach out to the dealer Monday and try to figure this one out. If they crippled launch control for the US customers I will not be happy.