engineermike
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Or better, add gdi to the gt500 and raise the boost commensurately.... IMO that’s the only cool tech the Predator didn’t get.
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Wait I thought every road here ran into Mexico. To be honest, the majority of people on the roads here in the US are not trying to get to 60 mph as fast as possible. Many are too busy trying to keep it below the speed limit in the "left lane". 
Not sure what the speed limits are in Bucharest, but here in the good old USofA we do not spend a lot of time going from 60 to 100. Except in Mexico, of course.
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Joking aside, 40-60 and 60-100 are possibly the most useful acceleration times around here.
We have very few highways, but lots of curvy two-lane roads. The speed limit on such a road is either 55 or 62, depending on whether it's designated as a 'national' or a 'European' one. But the speed limit is absolutely irrelevant because these roads suffer from two nasty diseases:
- Trucks, which barely do 40 on level ground, and anywhere between 6 and 20 uphill. Plus, they stink like hell.
- Sunday drivers, whose maximum speed is around 45 if you're lucky, or less if you're not.
Your only chance of arriving at your destination in the same century in which you left home is to overtake these plagues. But that's difficult. Because the road is curvy and there's no visibility round the next corner. And when the road is straight there's traffic coming the other way. And when it's straight and there's no oncoming traffic, the straight line isn't always long enough for you to do the overtaking maneuver at a relaxed pace; you need to step on it hard. That's where the 40-60 acceleration time is very important. The shorter that is, the more you can take advantage of even the smallest overtaking opportunities.
Highways pose a different kind of challenge.
The speed limit is 80. The outside lane is usually occupied by trucks, vans and Sunday drivers, who all saunter along at 60. If you're doing 80 in this lane and catch up with one of these, then you must slow down and wait for a chance to get into the inside lane and accelerate again. But there's traffic on the inside lane, which is generally moving at 80 to 85, with the odd 100 every now and then. So from the 60 you had to slow down to, you must now get back to 80 as soon as you can, lest you inconvenience everybody in the fast lane.
Now, let's say the outside lane is doing 60, you're doing 80 in the inside lane, and in your rear-view mirror you see someone approaching fast. He may be doing 100; perhaps even more. Sure, you could be a moron and think: "fuck him, I'm doing exactly the speed limit, so I don't have to move over for him". But you're not a moron; you're a fine, well-educated man, so you want to move over and let him pass. But in the outside lane, just beside you, is a truck. And in front of it is another. Then another. And then there's a long gap. So instead of slowing down to 60 and getting behind the truck next to you, you figure you could accelerate briskly, overtake all of those trucks, then move into the gap front of them to allow the car behind you to pass. But if you decide to do that, then you must do it as quickly as possible, without inconveniencing the person behind you, otherwise you'd be a moron (and we've already established that you aren't). This is when a quick 80 to 100 acceleration comes in handy.
0 to 60 is OK as a high-level indicator of a car's general performance, but utterly useless as an absolute performance measure in and of itself, unless all you care about is drag racing.
We have very few highways, but lots of curvy two-lane roads. The speed limit on such a road is either 55 or 62, depending on whether it's designated as a 'national' or a 'European' one. But the speed limit is absolutely irrelevant because these roads suffer from two nasty diseases:
- Trucks, which barely do 40 on level ground, and anywhere between 6 and 20 uphill. Plus, they stink like hell.
- Sunday drivers, whose maximum speed is around 45 if you're lucky, or less if you're not.
Your only chance of arriving at your destination in the same century in which you left home is to overtake these plagues. But that's difficult. Because the road is curvy and there's no visibility round the next corner. And when the road is straight there's traffic coming the other way. And when it's straight and there's no oncoming traffic, the straight line isn't always long enough for you to do the overtaking maneuver at a relaxed pace; you need to step on it hard. That's where the 40-60 acceleration time is very important. The shorter that is, the more you can take advantage of even the smallest overtaking opportunities.
Highways pose a different kind of challenge.
The speed limit is 80. The outside lane is usually occupied by trucks, vans and Sunday drivers, who all saunter along at 60. If you're doing 80 in this lane and catch up with one of these, then you must slow down and wait for a chance to get into the inside lane and accelerate again. But there's traffic on the inside lane, which is generally moving at 80 to 85, with the odd 100 every now and then. So from the 60 you had to slow down to, you must now get back to 80 as soon as you can, lest you inconvenience everybody in the fast lane.
Now, let's say the outside lane is doing 60, you're doing 80 in the inside lane, and in your rear-view mirror you see someone approaching fast. He may be doing 100; perhaps even more. Sure, you could be a moron and think: "fuck him, I'm doing exactly the speed limit, so I don't have to move over for him". But you're not a moron; you're a fine, well-educated man, so you want to move over and let him pass. But in the outside lane, just beside you, is a truck. And in front of it is another. Then another. And then there's a long gap. So instead of slowing down to 60 and getting behind the truck next to you, you figure you could accelerate briskly, overtake all of those trucks, then move into the gap front of them to allow the car behind you to pass. But if you decide to do that, then you must do it as quickly as possible, without inconveniencing the person behind you, otherwise you'd be a moron (and we've already established that you aren't). This is when a quick 80 to 100 acceleration comes in handy.
0 to 60 is OK as a high-level indicator of a car's general performance, but utterly useless as an absolute performance measure in and of itself, unless all you care about is drag racing.
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