[nexox]

You seem to have ignored my "All other things the same" qualifier - that means you have to assume that power, weight (except for the difference between the gearboxes,) suspension, environment, tires, and everything else, is identical for the quoted part of my sentence to apply.

I don't see how your first two points are relevant to what I said, or your original post. You can love the GTR all you want, I don't mind, and I never claimed that there was anything wrong with it.

As for point 3, if you were to compare to a theoretical manual transmission GTR, that half a second of extra power would still only net you a couple tenths advantage, since acceleration and aerodynamic drag are nonlinear.

And I stand by my claim that a couple tenths on a 12 second quarter mile is 'not much faster.'

[grecy]

> I don't see how your first two points are relevant to what I said

They're not, I just wanted to include them for the curious.

> You can love the GTR all you want, I don't mind, and I never claimed that there was anything wrong with it.

It's an amazing car, but it's not like I have one or even want one.

>As for point 3, if you were to compare to a theoretical manual transmission GTR, that half a second of extra power would still only net you a couple tenths advantage, since acceleration and aerodynamic drag are nonlinear. And I stand by my claim that a couple tenths on a 12 second quarter mile is 'not much faster.'

You've never tried to build a 12 second car have you? A couple of tens is HUGE for a well behaved road car with a sound system, air conditioning and creature comforts. You could easily spend tens of thousands on a drag car in an attempt to get that. (I just looked it up, Motor Trend ran an 11.6, which is F-A-S-T)

[sigkill]

> with a sound system, air conditioning and creature comforts

Reminds me of that episode with May saying something on the lines of "We're going at 400kmph... and we've got air-conditioning and radio". Now, that is serious engineering.