[Ryan'stc]

Why is it that both Car @ Driver and Road @ Track both gave the tC a 0-60 7.4 sec review and Motor Trend gave it 8 sec? Are the people down at motor trend learing to drive stick for the first time? A .6 is quite a difference in a test like that. Does anybody know if they just don't really push the test cars?

 

[moriarty]

links?

 

[Ryan'stc]

I didn't get this form the net I bought the mags. The motor trend issue is the power issue that came out two months ago. The road @ track is the febuary 05 issue. And the car and driver issue is the october 05 I think.

 

[ksmart]

IMHO a half a second of a difference depends on more things than just knowing how to shift: how many people were in the car, what kind of gas did they put in it, how full was the tank, how cold/hot was it where they were making the test, was it windy and in what direction was the wind blowing . . . and so on

 

[Ryan'stc]

most of these road test are one person and there done on dry days.

 

[Ryan'stc]

Also It would reqire one hell of a wind to do that

 

[ksmart]

Ryan, as far as the wind goes, looks like you've never been to Chicago

It is just half a second. All I'm trying to say is that there are so many things, that combined together could easily cause a difference like that.

 

[Azrael]

Alright, I've done a little bit of homework on the magazines mentioned, to see if there's a discrepancy between 0-60 times of different cars, and here's what I've found.

2005 Ford Mustang GT
C&D: 5.2 S
R&T: 5.3 S
MT: 5.2 S

2005 Mazda3 5 door
C&D: 7.4 S
R&T: 8.0 S
MT: 7.8 S

2002 Nissan Sentra Se-R Spec V
C&D: 7.3
R&T: 7.3
MT: 6.9

2003 Hyundai Tiburon
C&D: 7.1
R&T: 7.6
MT: 7.0

So, as you can see, there's really no one magazine that stands out as far as 0-60 acceleration is concerned.

 

[Plissken]

Nice research, thanks.

 

[Ryan'stc]

dam az that some research. Props on the work it must have takin to look all that up. I guess you got a point there.

 

[lo bux racer]

Manufacturers are also known to send "ringers" to magazine tests. No Supra has ever duplicated the times and speeds shown by the '93 model that all the mags tested, and I have been told by a very reliable source that car had a "special" program in the ECM for magazine tests. I've heard the same thing about Chevrolets, especially Corvettes. In a market where performance is held at a premium, you'll see lots of interesting differences between magazine test results.

 

[Plissken]

Sounds like the same thing video card makers ATI and Nvidia are known to have done in the past with "custom" drivers

 

[Azrael]

Lousy shady manufacturers.

 

[Labfish]

Anything for a buck

 

[p120ud213azn]

i think 8 seconds is for auto tranny and 7.4 for manual

thats wat i heard

 

[basilisk4]

^^^ Ditto.