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Originally Posted by Killerfish2012
Trust me, there were a lot of things that car and driver was doing! the now defunct edmunds insideline did an article on standardizing acceleration testing: http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/f...nd-trucks.html It's not just roll out. From extremely abusive launch techniques, to reporting raw 1/4 mile times, uncorrected for elevation, or even temp/humidity (SAE), car and driver did it all. 2001 BMW 330CI 5 speed manual doing a 1/4 mile in 14.5 seconds @ 96mph? What? Only one dude was ever able to do a sub 15 second 1/4 mile on the forums (14.9), and that was with the 6 speed released years later. They even tested the G35 coupe with a 14.6, 1/4, but when guys lined up both cars, it was clear that the BMW times were severely miss-reported. |
I'm not gonna lie. I fell into that G35 hype......regretted less than a few months later. Thank God it was stolen. It felt like such a pig.
