Road and Track 0-60 time of 4.9 seconds.
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Im sure some of you guys have already seen this article. road and track did a comparison test between the G35, Acura TL, and the IS350..
the IS posted a 4.9 sec time on 0-60....
here is the link:
http://www.lexus.com/models/IS/reviews.html
but thats not the point. I was curious on how they achieved this time. so I went to their message board and asked them about how did they launched the car....
I asked: did you power brake? to what RPM's? ECT on? etc...
Shawn Bailey, Detroit Editor answered:
"All stability/traction control was off. Car was power braked to stall speed, about 4000 I think. It will very with surface and tire choice, so you'll have to experiment. I suggest you ignore the 0-60 while at a drag strip, and look at the 0-100 feet data, and 1/4 mile times"
-Shaun
here is the link to the page:
http://forums.roadandtrack.com/cars/...&thread.id=983
what u guys think???
the IS posted a 4.9 sec time on 0-60....
here is the link:
http://www.lexus.com/models/IS/reviews.html
but thats not the point. I was curious on how they achieved this time. so I went to their message board and asked them about how did they launched the car....
I asked: did you power brake? to what RPM's? ECT on? etc...
Shawn Bailey, Detroit Editor answered:
"All stability/traction control was off. Car was power braked to stall speed, about 4000 I think. It will very with surface and tire choice, so you'll have to experiment. I suggest you ignore the 0-60 while at a drag strip, and look at the 0-100 feet data, and 1/4 mile times"
-Shaun
here is the link to the page:
http://forums.roadandtrack.com/cars/...&thread.id=983
what u guys think???
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what u guys think???
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Oh, you meant about the number.
Road & Track is notorious for lousy test numbers so, for them, that number is exceptional. That is a pretty old article too.
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car & driver got 5.1 and lexus claims 5.3
the problem with all these figures is that there are so many variables that will affect the results. tires, air temp, amount of gas in tank, weight of driver, road conditions/quality of pavement, altitude/air pressure. basically if you take an average, it is safe to say that most IS350 will be around 5.1+
the problem with all these figures is that there are so many variables that will affect the results. tires, air temp, amount of gas in tank, weight of driver, road conditions/quality of pavement, altitude/air pressure. basically if you take an average, it is safe to say that most IS350 will be around 5.1+
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All these car magazines are very baised, Road & Track favors the IS over the G35 and TL while Edmunds rated the G35 over all its competitors. Edmunds took price as a huge factor so that's why G35 won the comparison test, for those people who prefer to dig a little deeper into their wallets just to get a better vehicle, should not be listening to these critics.
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I suppose there's always the G-tech type devices
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Drag strips can't record 0-60 because they have no way of knowing when you hit exactly 60 MPH. It's easy to record 60 ft. times, though, because you break the beam at exactly 60 feet. Can't do that with MPH.
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That is a good point, but when you take into consideration, the rate of acceleration, (sometimes greater than 20 mph per second) it would be impossible for radar to follow. Your 60 ft. times are recorded in one hundredths of a second. The radar would need to know the *exact* point at which you hit *exactly* 60.00 mph within 1/10th of a second, and when you're accelerating that fast, it's impossible. I, too, wish a track could somehow record 0-60. That would be awesome.
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did you do a really good burnout before your 0-60 run?
you need to test out what the best rpm for your car to brake torque is.. without spinning off the line bad.. some slight spin is fine tho
also.. those g-techs can be a tenth or 2 off
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That is a good point, but when you take into consideration, the rate of acceleration, (sometimes greater than 20 mph per second) it would be impossible for radar to follow. Your 60 ft. times are recorded in one hundredths of a second. The radar would need to know the *exact* point at which you hit *exactly* 60.00 mph within 1/10th of a second, and when you're accelerating that fast, it's impossible. I, too, wish a track could somehow record 0-60. That would be awesome.