The average person's reaction time to click something given a visual queue is like 0.3 seconds so you could be at 4.2 sec or 5.6 sec lol

The car is tire limited, but torque limited too. I think they'd need a better tire and higher gearing for a truly competitive 0-60 time. I think this car goes the samw speed in 2nd gear as my C7 did. But I can get in and out of this one a whole lot easier lol.

The Scat Pack driver kept jumping the gun on the roll races! In spite of that, the IS 500 still dusted in the drag race.

It's almost boring how the BMW just demolished both of them. :rolleyes:

Yeah the gearing can be a problem. Second gear goes to like 67 and third to about 90. In the BMW, I am pretty sure second only goes to about 58 lol. It has a taller final drive than the Lexus but much shorter gears 1-4, so it just makes more wheel torque almost all the time.

Also, yeah the speedometer in the car doesn't update very quickly either, so it probably was actually a little less than 4.8... though, the speedo also reads somewhat high (about 1-2 MPH higher than real speed at 60 MPH), so it's probably a close enough estimate.

I didn't noticed any videos from inside the IS. The "auto" roll race would have been especially interesting because this car DOES NOT downshift quickly. If I go WOT at 40 mph it will kick down to 3rd gear, start moving, then pause and finally get to 2nd gear before taking off. I am 99.9% positive that's the only reason the IS got smoked in the roll race. Manual mode you could tell the dude missed shifts too. It looked like the IS hit the brakes at the end of one of them!

I don't know why I even watched. Another stupid ass, inaccurate video from a stupid ass youtuber.

I'm not watching his video. His stuff is pretty terrible. Based on the posts here I am not missing anything besides frustration at the crappiness.

Looking at this footage, I cannot believe that the m340 makes only 382 hp. The way it is pulling away like crazy from the IS500 and the Dodge in whatever scenario (drag race, from a roll) seems to indicate that this cannot be attributed to just better (shorter) gearing and AWD vs. RWD. Below is the gearing against the IS500. Sure, m340 is slightly shorter in gears 1 through 4, and AWD hookup is superior to RWD, but it just seems the advertised power figures are vastly underestimating the engine's actual performance based on all these comparison tests. Seems it is making north of 450 hp at the crank.

m340 (1 through 8): 14.75, 9.44, 6.10, 4.83, 3.71, 2.81, 2.30, 1.80
IS500 (1 through 8): 14.40, 8.51, 5.82, 4.57, 3.85, 3.13, 2.57, 2.16

Same engine as the Supra and when those first came out they dyno'd more to the tire than their rated power if I remember right. Sandbaggin BMW lol

This is going to be a good podcast. Let me put everything on hold for a minute. 😈😎

https://www.autoweek.com/podcast/a63...-drive-review/

It's in Mandarin but just turn on auto-translate CC to english and it's pretty good.
He goes into a surprising amount of detail. Stuff like showing the upper carpet inside the trunk compartment.

Good review overall, but another lacklustre 0-60 run. Wish a reviewer would make some better attempts at trying to get the best run they can.

His review in 2023 was pretty much the same. Solid review, lackluster 0-60.

I'm not trying to be mean but a few tenths could have been dropped with a thinner driver and a better launch. But a RWD car with no launch control is going to have launches that vary. Either way it was a pretty average review. Gladly it was short.

🤣Guess I'm good in my 24 MY at 168 Lbs😎

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