S2k tested in New Road & Track
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From: Redmond, Washington, USA
Originally Posted by tritium_pie' date='Jan 29 2005, 11:11 PM
I looked it up. it really does use leaf springs. don't really understand this. 
http://www.maximum-cars.com/Cars/Car.php?carnumber=519
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From: Prague
Originally Posted by revhi' date='Jan 29 2005, 06:23 PM
I saw it, why are the Vette and Viper being compared with those others?
Enjoy whatever you drive!
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From: NJ
Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k' date='Jan 30 2005, 08:26 AM
but i think no one is arguing the fact that tha ap2 while not quite as able as the ap1 on the track
Again, this is a useless debate. The cars are really not that different.
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Axel6 that stuff flat cracks me up - I think that it was your car (?) that Don S drove at an MClub autox and came back RAVING about getting an 04/05 and using it as an SM2 (or something - i fergit) autox car. pssst, he's driven ones like mine and never got that enthusiastic - so the 04 must have something going to make him want to leave his RX-7. The same thing happened at the NNJ Test and Tune last year when everyone who drove the 04 raved about it "best car I've ever slalomed in" was one quote - all those drivers have driven other versions including the auther of the above quote who co-drove my '02 last year at a few events.
...Must be something really wrong with those 04's that real drivers, hard core autox enthusiasts, actually found them superior to the AP1. I think that folks who use the car as a tool don't need the accolades of taming some beast - they just want the car to do what they ask of it.
...Must be something really wrong with those 04's that real drivers, hard core autox enthusiasts, actually found them superior to the AP1. I think that folks who use the car as a tool don't need the accolades of taming some beast - they just want the car to do what they ask of it.
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I find it funny that the C6 gets such accolades. I really wanted to like it when I drove it this past Saturday. The car is beautiful, but you sit in the drivers seat and the chair feels like it is a $4 Ikea lawn chair wriggling around behind you. The instruments all disappear with Polarized glasses on. The dash goodies, apart from the nice instrument cluster, are utter crap. All three pedals are squishy, wooden, and have little feel. The gearchange feels like you are stirring a pot of rubber with a three foot spoon.
There is magic. Nail the throttle and the front of the car rises a bit. The torque is monstrous. In a small slalom part of an autocross course your foot barely brushes the gas pedal in second. Without traction control you'd probably do donuts if you sneezed. For the price, the power is addictive, but 99%+ of the time you are not nailing the throttle. The car just doesn't cut it.
There is magic. Nail the throttle and the front of the car rises a bit. The torque is monstrous. In a small slalom part of an autocross course your foot barely brushes the gas pedal in second. Without traction control you'd probably do donuts if you sneezed. For the price, the power is addictive, but 99%+ of the time you are not nailing the throttle. The car just doesn't cut it.
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[quote name='vroom' date='Jan 31 2005, 01:48 PM'] Axel6 that stuff flat cracks me up - I think that it was your car (?) that Don S drove at an MClub autox and came back RAVING about getting an 04/05 and using it as an SM2 (or something - i fergit) autox car.
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Originally Posted by flitcroft' date='Feb 1 2005, 01:36 AM
I find it funny that the C6 gets such accolades. I really wanted to like it when I drove it this past Saturday. The car is beautiful, but you sit in the drivers seat and the chair feels like it is a $4 Ikea lawn chair wriggling around behind you. The instruments all disappear with Polarized glasses on. The dash goodies, apart from the nice instrument cluster, are utter crap. All three pedals are squishy, wooden, and have little feel. The gearchange feels like you are stirring a pot of rubber with a three foot spoon.
There is magic. Nail the throttle and the front of the car rises a bit. The torque is monstrous. In a small slalom part of an autocross course your foot barely brushes the gas pedal in second. Without traction control you'd probably do donuts if you sneezed. For the price, the power is addictive, but 99%+ of the time you are not nailing the throttle. The car just doesn't cut it.
There is magic. Nail the throttle and the front of the car rises a bit. The torque is monstrous. In a small slalom part of an autocross course your foot barely brushes the gas pedal in second. Without traction control you'd probably do donuts if you sneezed. For the price, the power is addictive, but 99%+ of the time you are not nailing the throttle. The car just doesn't cut it.