[Shotimes] OT: Pontiac GTO

[Carl Prochilo]

There are lot of neat video clips of this car destroying tires, but
for drag racing, would you use traction control (which the car has) or
is that too lossy.
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Thu, September 22, 2005 22:36, bjshov8 said:
> There are probably a lot of variables involved but off the top of my
> head it
> seems like the most important factor is how well does the car launch
> with
> one vs. the other.  If the stick shift either melts the tires or bogs
> the
> engine, then the automatic might have an advantage.
>
>
>> The brochure for this car states that the automatic version is
>> 1/10th
>> quicker than its manual counterpart.  I find this to be an anomoly.
>> Does this make sense and can anyone explain it?
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