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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 02:21 PM
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I don't know about you guys but this is something I could spend a lot of time on, posted these on my forum too.

Here are 2 pages of the "Road Test Summary" in the latest R&T (in April, 2008 Issue):

Enjoy and hope this makes a better thursday afternoon haha

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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 03:04 PM
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lol lexus schalom speed is the lowest in the industry, just marginally beating smartfor2.

they also listed the braking distance for the LS460 as extremely bad at 146 ft. that must be a mistake if we look at the rest of the lexsu cars, especially the LS600Hl with the regenerative brakes
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 04:06 PM
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Great summary there. Really helps putting things in perspective.
Originally Posted by RXSF
lol lexus schalom speed is the lowest in the industry, just marginally beating smartfor2.

they also listed the braking distance for the LS460 as extremely bad at 146 ft. that must be a mistake if we look at the rest of the lexsu cars, especially the LS600Hl with the regenerative brakes
The LS460 has pretty bad slalom speed, yes, but the IS's slalom speed actually beats the 3-series' in many cases. The S550's 60.1mph slalom speed is nothing to brag about either.

The LS460 also had a poor showing in C&D's braking test. It's probably a result of Lexus sending the same pre-production car with crappy A/S tires.

And holy crap the Caterham manages 79.8mph in slalom speed.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 09:49 PM
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hahahahah i love how the boxster isnt even up there
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 10:48 PM
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I'm wondering why low slaloms from any luxury manufacturer's flagship sedan should be an issue.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 11:56 PM
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R&T is the only car magazine (except for the British ones) that still publish their road test #s in the back of the magazine, I used to love reading these, but I've looked over them so much that I can pretty much estimate the numbers of any car I'm interested in

I wouldn't put too much stock in the slalom and skidpad numbers though, the GTI has better numbers than the McLaren F1 in both?!?
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 06:08 AM
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Good thread Jimmy The Vette ZO6 continues to blow me away.
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by DASHOCKER
Good thread Jimmy The Vette ZO6 continues to blow me away.
Thanks!

I like SMART
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by thetopdog
R&T is the only car magazine (except for the British ones) that still publish their road test #s in the back of the magazine, I used to love reading these, but I've looked over them so much that I can pretty much estimate the numbers of any car I'm interested in

I wouldn't put too much stock in the slalom and skidpad numbers though, the GTI has better numbers than the McLaren F1 in both?!?
More interestingly, the Civic Hybrid is just .1mph slower in the slalom than the MC F1 Then, a Fit sport beats them both

But more IMPORTANTLY, why are they still putting a car from 1997 on there while it doesn't do much now? bugatti beats it and almost everywhere and there was the CLK GTR before which is just as good as the MC F1... which got token down long ago...
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Solo_D33A
More interestingly, the Civic Hybrid is just .1mph slower in the slalom than the MC F1 Then, a Fit sport beats them both


lol.......
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by RXSF
lol lexus schalom speed is the lowest in the industry, just marginally beating smartfor2.
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