02-14-2018, 06:13 PM | #68 |
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"The simple fact that we're talking about a stock sedan in the 2.x territory, and 10 second territory for the quarter mile is crazy."
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02-14-2018, 06:19 PM | #70 |
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Wow.
Wonder what the comp pack will do in that case...
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02-14-2018, 06:19 PM | #71 |
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exactly... the Tesla launch mode is just to impress friends. It's not for long bouts of spirited driving. Bragging rights, I suppose.
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02-14-2018, 06:25 PM | #72 |
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02-14-2018, 06:25 PM | #73 |
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I hit it hard for the first time out of a toll booth yesterday and I thought I was going to launch into orbit.
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02-14-2018, 06:53 PM | #75 |
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I love that this makes tesla second fastest sedan, do they have to change all their marketing material now?
Also they should race tesla 0-500 miles, pretty sure the bmw will win |
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It's because the vast majority are simply repeating what the manufacturer has spin fed them. Combine this with a lack of experience (and a lack of confidence that seems innate to a young writer) and most of what they are writing is what the manufacturer wants them to say, and totally detached from reality. If you don't believe this, just pick any car you want then read the reviews from the major publications and look for the similarities in what they are saying. The unwitting reading may see it as confirmation of some trait of the car, but in actuality it's simply a line which was consciously or subconsciously put out by the manufacturer and then repeated by the writer. The most egregious I saw was with the release of the amg gt, where at press launch the media specialists put out there that the center console of the gt was designed to mirror the v8 engine, with two opposing banks of 4 buttons. Well goddamn if every single review didn't go off telling us about this as if the individual journalist noticed this on their own. Always be smart and always use your own judgement. There was a time when journalists brought smarts and experience to the table (road and track comes to mind) to give insightful and trustworthy reviews. More recently the only reviews worth anything come from Chris Harris and Clarkson, but they are entertainers so you have to mentally wade through the made for tv stuff to try to get at the real meaning of what they are saying. When you do get there, they are usually spot on. C/d has usually been nonsense and that continues here. But this type of stuff is meant for internet "bench racers". Wow it can do 0-60 in 1 second. Great.
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02-14-2018, 08:07 PM | #79 |
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Waiting for a car to do 0-60 in 0.00 seconds... maybe then they would need to benchmark 0-100 mph so that we can have 5 or 6 seconds again.
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2.8 is fake news
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0.0 seconds? Lol. So basically teleportation then? Keep waiting my friend
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Now you can show them how much you hate them by beating them to 100. At least a stock one. Here come the HAHA GTR plates?
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02-14-2018, 09:56 PM | #86 |
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I re-read the article. While the brake is pressed the rear wheels are ‘spinning’. Once the brake is released the car moves forward and the fronts hook up.
How does this work at the drag strip? Car and Driver obviously didn’t do this at a real strip. Must be fun at stop lights although kinda obvious when tires are smoking and it hasn’t turne green yet. |
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Good to see it returning to form. I hated the f10 m5 with a passion! It was powerful but boring imo. I’d rather drive the gsf, “underpowered” in today’s standards but more engaging and love the NA sound
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