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Originally Posted by rez333
*racing* is not an option. I'm saying "hard acceleration" - the kind you would normally do regardless of whoever is next to you; not full-out illegal stuff.
A fairly subdued hard acceleration can still beat an FR-S off the line - the question is - would you do that, or would you purposely do a "minivan launch"?
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You're making quite the assumption that subdued acceleration will beat these cars off the line. The driver could be better than you, the car is way lighter and has a great power to weight ratio.
Its a BRZ or FR-S going to hang with an SS in the 1/4 mile? No. But with people of various skills just screwing around on the road, I can assure you it won't be a guaranteed win and then you have: The Cops. The Cops who don't care if you're just accelerating hard or actually racing, they will bust your ass back to next Tuesday if they see you doing it.
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Originally Posted by 8cd03gro
So the lt1 c5 vette was faster than the 93-97 supra and 3000gt vr4? Are you only talking about 97+ american cars or the then $70k zr1? The brz/fr-s is not a straight line car by any means, it's a go cart. I doubt you're going to see a lot of them revving at you at street lights. How often do you see mazda miatas drag racing?  |
The 3000GT VR4 was nothing special performance wise as it was very heavy thanks to the AWD system, now the Supra (and only the Turbo) has a horspeower and slight curb weight disadvantage to the LT1 Vette. The Corvette would likely take it 9 times out of 10 given equal drivers.
Still to say "In the 90's American cars were faster than anything out of Japan" is a bit of a reach. Japan had a lot of performance cars at that time, some of them were very light and quick.