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Originally Posted by Sax1031
Ok I thought you were saying that since the trap speed was still nearly identical the ETs had to be too.
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You are correct they do NOT have to be "identical" as anyone who has ever run their car at a dragstrip more than once can tell you. Also, you can watch the video and see they are testing the cars on an airport runway somewhere with portable timing equipment. They are measuring trap speed when the car hits the traps, but this is NOT how trap speed is calculated at an actual dragstrip. The hair-splitting here is getting pretty extreme. A couple tenths or a couple feet in braking distance is, as garagelogic said, completely insignificant when you factor in different cars being tested by different drivers at different locations under different conditions. These test results are like dyno results, they are useful when doing DIRECT comparisons, but comparison of random results with different variables doesn't have a whole lot of meaning. But a lot of people here seem more likely to concoct some conspiracy theory about Ford somehow bribing the reviewers to sandbag the Camaro whenever the Mustang is in town.