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Originally Posted by footie
Your lack of understand of traction issues and how they diminish as speed increases is truly mind boggling. 
We are here debating outright acceleration and you throw 'ingear' times from 80~120km/h into the mix are if it means something and proves your point. For heaven-sake a 335d will destroy an M3v8 in the same discipline but will be miles behind it in a drag race which I might add is what we have been talking about for God knows how many posts. 
Please try and keep on topic.  |
On dry roads the 335i runs the 1/4 mile in 13.4 @ 105mph,0-60 in 4.8 sec. The S4 0-62mph is 5 sec,i don't think it'll ever pass a 335i before reaching its governed speed.
On summer tires in the winter doing a hard launch,you can break traction shifting all the way to 3rd gear in a 335i. the in gear passing times will be less affected by traction problems.If it wasn't important why would they bother publishing it?
The deduction you did to determine passing times was odd,you can't get 5-60m/h times in gear or not by deducting 0-60 acceleration times same with 80 to 160km/h. When the car is already rolling and you punch the gas pedal even going through the gears those numbers are completely different.
Stick with things you know, 2009 will go by a lot quicker than you think.