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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k
30 years ago automakers put out conservative performance numbers for their cars. And it confused people when magazines (and people IRL) could do better.
Here we are 30 years later and...how is the same thing happening?!
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We are more interested in debating the delta between the manufacturer’s numbers of the first gen and second gen. Either they were conservative and then they weren’t, so their numbers look better on the second gen or the car really improved by 1.1 seconds. If it is the latter then is it mostly the engine or mostly the tires or mostly one less gear to shift into or equally all three? Why was this discussion started? Because AnalogMan mentioned wanting to know what it actually feels like, which spawned comments that it might not be so great. Why? Because one less gear shift could improve times without much change in feel, and if someone already has PS4 tires then they might already have improved their 0-60 time. Maybe the 1.1 seconds is actually 0.3 seconds of actual improvement in acceleration.
The difference between manufacturers and journalists is actually not the focus of the debate, even if we are discussing the discrepancy.