Watch Joe Biden Lay Rubber In Electric Ford F-100 Restomod And Hit 118 MPH In Corvette Drag Race | Carscoops carscoops
Joe’s fairy, who recently got the president behind the wheel of a Ford’s Eluminator electromod pickup, and his Sting Ray, for an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC where we get to see POTUS vent all that frustration and race his Vette to a claimed 118 mph against a C6.
You’re probably familiar with the Eluminator, even if Biden appears not to be. Unveiled at SEMA last year to showcase Ford’s electric crate motors, the truck is essentially a 1978 F-100 stuffed with the dual-motor, all-wheel drive powertrain and dashboard of a Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition. Biden likes the refinement of the electric setup, but loves the response of the 480 hp motors more, even mashing his right foot into the bulkhead and chirping the tires to prove his point. Let’s hope he’s mis-used his position to persuade Ford boss Jim Farley to convert a few old F-100s for public sale, because as itEuropean-Made EVs May Receive U.S. Federal Tax Credits
Elsewhere in the show Biden re-runs the Corvette drag race he had a few years back with the late Colin Powell. The four-star general always felt Biden had jumped the start on that meeting so his son Michael jumps behind the wheel of the very same C6 Corvette to reclaim the Powell family’s honor. Whatever your political persuasions, it’s hard not to do a little fist pump when Biden lights up the tires on thegiven as a wedding present in 1967. It’s hard to imagine Britain’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, doing the same, or even knowing how. That’s presuming the president’s minders actually let him do that, and then race off without wearing a helmet, as the carefully edited footage wants us to believe.