Originally Posted by ayrton88 Who buys a sports car to drag race? Buy a pony car if you want to just line it up at the light
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04-02-2015, 12:53 PM | #1127 (permalink) |
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Exactly. A sports car is supposed to be all about cornering and agility. Straight line speed is really pretty irrelevant. Look at the great British sports cars, like Triumphs and MGs. They didn't have even 100 HP but were a total blast on the twisties. Buying a sports car to drag race is bringing the wrong tool to the job. How many F1 cars do you see at a drag strip?
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Kinda funny but our little 6 cylinder sports cars do very well out there Especially with the automatics.
Give it a try. You may turn hetro after a few passes.
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Where are the MG's and Triumphs now? 100 hp is still gutless no matter how good the twisties are. The Z is very competitive quarter mile, auto cross, and track so rethink about the tool. It just may be the tool behind the drivers seat that's holding the Z back.
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In other words, personal preferences for a clutch pedal notwithstanding, they're arguing it isn't as quick as a PDK. Ok... Similarly, they make reference to the "...hero-making SyncroRev rev-matching technology (which, of course, is defeatable for actual heroes)," indicating that only sopping wet, large labiaed vaginas would ever have the rev match turned on. Of course, those walking menstru-bots would at least secrete more testosterone than anyone with a quintessentially girly automatic. Also, they claim a 0-60 for the Nismo 7AT of 4.6 (.1 sec faster than the 2009 auto, incidentally), but I didn't see a comparison with the MT, so... Anyway, my guess is that even if they verified that the 7AT was faster than the 6MT, they would have made the same case in support of the MT because: Engaged; thing in hand; left foot moves. And so on.
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