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      03-28-2011, 01:20 AM   #102
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Originally Posted by BrokenVert View Post
MT vs DSG doesn't make a 1 second difference.

It is because american car magazines use a 1 ft roll out when sprinting to 60. They make everything artificially faster than it actually is. The Europeans do not use the roll outs as the Americans do. That is why the 1 second difference exists.
How many AWD cars with aggressive launch control programs are out there? It's possible to get so much more from a launch with AWD.

The GTR seems to be quite an outlier with its 0-60, and so is this, because of the launch control + AWD.
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