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Old 10-01-2009, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by HIRISC View Post
^^ I agree. I read somewhere that the informal testing of launch control yielded just 1/10th of a second improvement to 60mph over standard brake/gas/sport mode.

If that is true, there isn't really a valid case for LC

I have a GTech that I'll try out after break in to validate that.
Car and Driver's test yielded the following -

0-60 - 4.3
0-60 w/Launch - 4.1
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