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Originally Posted by VTEC
Yea their acceleration tests are way off. They had an automatic Scion TC smoke a manual FR-S.
At sea level a manual FR-S at does 0-60 in 6.2 seconds. A manual TC does 0-60 in 6.9 seconds. I don't know what the automatic TC does but I highly doubt it's faster than the manual TC.
I'm not saying the FR-S is really fast but they should at least drive the cars at sea level before they tell the world the car is slow. Especially when the FR-S is more affected by the air pressure than the lower revving TC. Most people are not living in the mountains.
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They often go to press events to do 0-60 runs when they can. At least they are being fair by testing all of their cars at the same elevation, so you can't say they are fudging the numbers, it is just FI isn't affected as much. That is odd about the Tc. With the FR-S you really need to be careful about bogging it too badly. Maybe more wheelspin would have knocked .5 seconds off the FR-S' time.
Also the high elevation does give some perspective considering most publications do their testing closer to sea level, so it is nice to get the comparison. That and it isn't super scientific since they are just running a device that clips onto the windshield. It isn't like MT that adjusts numbers for temperature and the like.
6.2 0-60 in the FR-S!? Haha, I certainly have not got anywhere near that based on my seat-of-my-pants scientific testing. Maybe early in the morning when it is 50 degrees out and I launch perfect. I was thinking 7-7.5 range. Now that it is 100 degrees outside, probably closer to 8
I guess it really doesn't matter.