GS430 Wiins Consumer Reports Award - Zero to Sixty in 21.7 Seconds
04-07-06, 06:12 AM
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GS430 Wiins Consumer Reports Award - Zero to Sixty in 21.7 Seconds
Consumer Reports announced its first major test of the most closely watched feature of new luxury automobiles today. A panel of CR engineers and testers, working in unprecedented secrecy inside a temperature controlled building in Duluth Minnesota (USA), compared the ability of 31 different models to raise the temperatures of both men's and women's behinds from zero degrees Farenheit to 60 degrees. Temperatures were tested for both driver's seat and front passenger's seat and averaged. Testers all wore the same clothes (different for men and women and picked to resemble real-world actual dress) and temperature was measured by sensors inside the outer layer of clothes but not touching the skin. Testers were not permitted to eat baked beans for 24 hours before the test.
In a major coup for Lexus engineers and yet another blow to the reputation of German engineering, the Lexus GS430 came in first, raising butt temperatures to 60 degrees in an astounding 21.7 seconds. The new Toyota Camry (V6) came in second at 24.1 seconds and the Acura RL finished a clean sweep for Japan at 25.3 seconds.
The head of BMW's North American Automotive Operations said "With German know-how and engineering genius now focused on this major issue, which I must admit we were complacent about and simply missed the major advances being made by our Japanese competitors, I guarantee that by next year's test we will not just catch up but will take the lead. German automotive engineering will not be left behind!"
((today this is fiction - with every luxury car and some not so luxurious introducing heated seats, within a few years it may be reality. You heard it here first!))
In a major coup for Lexus engineers and yet another blow to the reputation of German engineering, the Lexus GS430 came in first, raising butt temperatures to 60 degrees in an astounding 21.7 seconds. The new Toyota Camry (V6) came in second at 24.1 seconds and the Acura RL finished a clean sweep for Japan at 25.3 seconds.
The head of BMW's North American Automotive Operations said "With German know-how and engineering genius now focused on this major issue, which I must admit we were complacent about and simply missed the major advances being made by our Japanese competitors, I guarantee that by next year's test we will not just catch up but will take the lead. German automotive engineering will not be left behind!"
((today this is fiction - with every luxury car and some not so luxurious introducing heated seats, within a few years it may be reality. You heard it here first!))
04-07-06, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ariana8
Lexus GS430 came in first, raising butt temperatures to 60 degrees in an astounding 21.7 seconds.
Butt temperatures, under most conditions, are constant at 98.6 degrees.
OMG I laughed so hard... Trending Topics
04-07-06, 07:51 AM
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not to mention that if your butt is 0 degrees fahrenheit, you are probably not a happy camper... I think if any part of your core actually reached that temperature, you would probably die.
still a funny post though... fooled me at first.
still a funny post though... fooled me at first.
04-07-06, 07:56 AM
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Zero degress. That is rather cold. That's frostbite territory. Hypothermia even.
Is there proof of validity and reliability to their testing? What were the results of their chi-square and t-test analyses? Perhaps if we used the Rhomberg Method for calculating the specificity of their tests can we determine if this is a hoax or actual clinical experiment? Just some suggestions...
Is there proof of validity and reliability to their testing? What were the results of their chi-square and t-test analyses? Perhaps if we used the Rhomberg Method for calculating the specificity of their tests can we determine if this is a hoax or actual clinical experiment? Just some suggestions...
04-07-06, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by 4TehNguyen
honestly at first i thought they were doing some strange test which required them to reach 60 mph by coasting down a hill in 21 sec 
I'm gonna try this later on my ES300... I have a laser surface thermometer. Don't know how accurate it is, but we were able to match the outside temp to what it read at.