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The Stoplight Grand Prix 200

posted by  someone claiming to be Bill the Cat on  Sat Jan 5 01:10 CST 2002 [RELATED]

It doesn't show up on the acceleration charts because no magazines seem to want to publish 0-10 or 0-20 figures, but just about anything with a manual tranny will beat just about anything with an automatic off the line. Since about 93% of US cars have automatics....

That's because the torque converter of an automatic is still bringing itself up to speed while the manual tranny car is already moving. Back in my formative years (the dinosaur era) it was always fun to see a VW Beetle smoke a Mustang or Camaro from the stoplight - at least for the first 30 feet, until the VW ran out of 1st gear!

A relatively low HP car with a manual box can be a lot of fun because of that, and because no one else knows you're racing!

-Bill the Cat






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