Jay Leno city Bakersfield show record Jay Leno city Bakersfield

Jay Leno Breaks Land-Speed Record Driving Tesla Model S Plaid

Reading now: 225
etcanada.com

Jay Leno just set a new land-speed record, and he has Elon Musk to thank for it. The former “Tonight Show” host was recording a segment for an upcoming edition of his CNBC show “Jay Leno’s Garage” by taking a Tesla Model S Plaid out for a spin on a racetrack in an attempt to break the quarter-mile land-speed record for a production model. “I’ll tell you what I did.

I went up to Famoso Dragway in Bakersfield,” Leno said when he called into the “Spike’s Car Radio” podcast. “And the Tesla Plaid… I drove by, and the NHRA guy was there to make it official.

It turned a 9.247, at 152 MPH,” Speaking with CNBC’s Shepard Smith (above), Leno confirmed that the Tesla broke the existing record, putting the electric vehicle in some pretty rarified

Read more on etcanada.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA