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      04-11-2012, 11:09 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by phish_100 View Post
the gtr is 0-62mph in 2.8s with launch control though - there is nothing road legal that can keep up with that as far as I know - maybe not even a veyron SS.
In my case he got such a big jump from a standstill that when we were at around 150 km/h I was still behind him, then we had to slow down due to traffic. But according to my own experience even tuned Evolutions X and tuned Imprezas get big jumps ahead of me from traffic lights. I never use launch control because of BMW's scary manual precautions (why even make it if so many warnings are written about component wear) and I never powerbrake for the same reason.

Speaking of the video, it's clear from the 90% video attention they put on GT-R shooting that it used launch control, but the M5 didn't seem to have used any launch control or even power braking. GT-R is much faster from a standstill and there's no argument, but M5 was driven embarrassingly bad imo.
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