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      08-07-2009, 09:05 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by The Cthulhu View Post
All of "this stuff" about being on a track? Power/weight, horsepower, coefficient of drag, and frontal cross-sectional area have EVERYTHING to do with how a car performs in a straight line once it's already up to speed. Everything. .


Sure it does, but it's all pointless when we have REAL WORLD numbers to use to compare two cars, and we KNOW that a Lotus isn't much, if any, faster than a tuned 135i in a straight line. Bringing all that stuff into the discussion is just an attempt to cloud the issue.
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