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Originally Posted by Bavarian
It doesn't matter what magazines get as 0-60MPH times. The only thing that matters is what the manufacturer posts since that's what most people will be getting, and slower, too.
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To me the only thing that matters is what the fastest time possible is for any car. I think the driver testing it should use every means neccesary to extract every last tenth out of the car in there test. Because at the end of the test all that matters is what the car is capable of. Not what a regular person with no driving ability is able to get. As long as all the cars getting tested are being tested by the same people or equally experienced drivers then the numbers are relavant. If someone does 4.8 in a m3 and 4.5 in the ZM4 then which is faster. The ZM4 is faster! Now if i take it out and do a 5sec in the m3 and a 5sec in the zm4. does that mean they are equally fast. No that means i didnt know how to get the power down right and the other guy was faster than me.
Only professional drivers can extract full performance from cars and the cars true capability shows in there hands and to me thats what matters. theres alot of people out there that wont hit those numbers but i for one have hit 4.8 sec in my m3 and have done 13.3 quarter miles when it was stock. It took some practice runs and my years of non pro racing helped for sure. But if CandD hit 4.5 in the ZM4 i know i could get close eventually. and who cares if i smoke a clutch. thats the price you pay for having fun. Buy a new one. If i didnt want to pay for a new clutch i wouldnt have done it.