The fuel cutoff on the '04 is 8200. That is enough to hit 60 mph.

 

Look at the numbers again. For the '04, they claim 15-45 in 4.5sec in 2nd gear, 20-50 in same time in 3rd gear. Sorry, this just isn't possible. Same delta (30 mph), will be much slower in a higher gear (3rd). They misquoted something. Clearly both are done in second gear. Or they misquoted the mph.

And ITR#203, I agree with all your sentiments. They'll make it reach 60 before cutoff in second just for magazine racing. The actual tire dynamic radius will also factor in to the eqn.

Last: of course in-gear accel will be better. You just lose out when you have to upshift to a higher gear, thus much less tq & hp, when the '00-'03's power continues to build toward the 9000 redline. May all but make up for it in an all-out run, but not in typical real-world driving. But I think the TOV article short-shrifted the difference the extra revs makes a bit.

 

it means they are trying to show with some fudgy numbers and very-specific non-real-world tests that the MY04 is a significant improvement of the preceeding models. it's called advertising.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FCGuy
Look at the numbers again.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by s9000
Also, to those who spoke of the 58mph max because of the 2nd gear ratio, consider that the car will still have accelerative force upon reaching the end of 2nd gear and will likely have enough of it to reach 60mph anyway before it begins to decelerate.