Huh? 500 and change isn’t that much power these days and with AWD, I’m not sure why you’re saying it can only be applied in a straight line and that it jumps off the line by almost 2 car widths.
Really strange.
I hear instructors say things like that almost every time that I go to a road course. It is bullshit!
Most instructors want the car to stay perfectly settled the entire time around the course. Kind of like a weird dancer mindset. However when your car actually makes real power and it unsettles the weight transfer they freak out. I have to roll on the brakes and gas pedal then press hard to keep everything settled enough to not scare the instructor into telling me to pull off the track. PsYkHoTiK actually posted a tip a while ago about this with brakes and I started doing the same thing with the gas pedal to keep my car settled. Saki regularly brings up how road course instructors take like 2 to 3 seconds to change gear and that is one more way that they want the car to stay settled. Give a road course instructor a person with a decently fast car (high 11s or low 12s in 1/4 mile) that power shifts, has a very touchy gas pedal, oversized brakes that will not fade, and good steering/suspension to stress them out enough to have a heart attack.
/rant
my life is all about headroom these days. Trying to find a car. Tough.
I mean, it’s like taking an SUV on the track. You can technically do it, but it’s an exercise in restraint. I wouldn’t make a habit of it. Applying 500 horsepower at the apex sends the car on a new trajectory towards the dirt. It’s not the power, it’s the long wheelbase and the front and back of the car having different angular momentum.
The low roof and tall seat makes it hard for big people to get in there with a helmet. The air conditioned seats were nice. It’s a much better car for drag strip than road course. The newer M5 are like this too - slower than an M235i around the same circuit.
saw this one the other day:
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needs a huge wing now.
Nice plow
my life is all about headroom these days. Trying to find a car. Tough.
Newb mistake. He should back in all parking spaces now.
saw this one the other day:
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needs a huge wing now.
Nice plow
Newb mistake. He should back in all parking spaces now.
I see lots of self driving Uber cars in SF.
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we’ve had those for a while
wish they had an allroad or q5 version. A3 is a bit small
I wish that I could do carbon cleanings like this!
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/the-coolest-possible-way-to-clean-out-a-tdi-intake-manifold/
Dealer offered me $29k trade on my new Boxster recently. Or you could buy these seats.
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