Road and Track Article - Thanks Maikeru!
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Thx Herc, Great Article. This is exactly what I'm looking for.
But somthing as piqued my interest: Let's compare this article to the C/D article. In the R/T the RX-8 exhibited faster accleration then the G35, won on braking, but loss, so to speak, on the 200 ft skidpad. In the C/D, the RX-8 loss on accleration, but won in braking and on the 300 ft skidpad. Why the differences? My guess is that its because these were all pre-production vehicles, hand built = not exactly the same. Any ideas? |
I think that Road and Track were using old numbers from the G35 Coupe because they merely threw it into the comparison, and didn't compare it head on like C&D did.
Besides C&D's numbers are usually to me the most reliable... if I don't like the writing I can always take a glance at the numbers and realize they are pretty dead-on. |
thanks herc for getting those posted up i love my silver:D
chenpin just a thought but the c&d comparo was an actual comparo ove rthe course of , i think they said , 3 days. the r&t article is just showing numbers they got from the g35c some time before, so conditions at the time of testing could have a lot to do with it. edit: herc beat me to it:o someone should figure out a way to measure the torgue at his fingers;) |
Originally posted by zoom44 edit: herc beat me to it:o |
Originally posted by zoom44 someone should figure out a way to measure the torgue at his fingers;) |
Didn't C/D mangage to pull a .91 or .92 on the skidpad. Road and Track only got .88
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Originally posted by cueball1029 Didn't C/D mangage to pull a .91 or .92 on the skidpad. Road and Track only got .88 I've always trusted C&D's numbers anyways, so the 0-60 times, skidpad and braking numbers I'd rather take from C&D. They generally get better results anyways. |
Another interesting observation is that C&D got 5.9 and 14.5 with a 2940 lbs RX-8 and R&T the same numbers with a 3180lbs RX-8. C&D also launched form 8000rpm drop and the R&T from a 7500rpm drop. So is this just minor inconsistance with numbers or does launching it at 7500 make that much of a difference. Though i don't recommend doing that to any clutch but hopefully mazda has taken that into consideration and given us a racing style clutch.
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great, now I have to go to the bookstore to get this issue....
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Originally posted by ZoomZoomH great, now I have to go to the bookstore to get this issue.... |
On-line now.
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