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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
Did they use it when testing the Camaro and Mustang? Or are you just saying that at some point they have used it?
And I didn't watch the video. And yes I will discredit the run. If you want people who will blindly praise it and take everything at word then M6G will do that for you. I read the article and that particular part of the story stood out to me and so I brought it up. That equipment is accurate to within a certain degree. And even then that degree is based on using the equipment several times and comparing the results. I'm not sure if it is accurate as measured against track equipment which uses sensors that start/stop time when you cross them. And for the record, even if they have used this equipment in the past I still question it's reliability when they are "11.98". Especially since GPS equipment is know to be off by 2-5 tenths in comparison to track runs.
To be fair they were at the track...they just used the data logger equipment instead of the track timers. Why I don't know. Perhaps it was closed and they just rented use of the actual track itself. Maybe they couldn't get the 11.98 using the track timers. I don't know. But you are indeed correct that if someone went around using data log equipment to brag about their times they'd get laughed at. At least they would have been laughed at. Now that it seems the only way the GT is in the 11s is thru use of GPS equipment I bet the Mustang guys will allow it from now on...but only for the Mustang. HAHA!!
If they used it consistently and the results fell in a specific time and you could still say it was within the accuracy then I would give credit. But it seems that an 11.98 could be actually still in the 12s based on the accuracy of this equipment so to me it is too close to call it definite.
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Or maybe they used their own timing equipment because I have never seen any drag strip timing equipment ever give you a 0-60MPH time?
GLD used to be my home track. You can see when you watch the video the car has a number on it so it went through tech, so it is possible they rented the track but I doubt cars.com would rent the track to test 1 car. We would have to know what day they went because GLD does host a few clocks off events. There has also been times I have been there were the board doesn't light up at all but the timing equipment still works. Maybe when they get back to hotlap (believe it was hotlap who emailed the editor) they will have a slip or let us know if they used their equipment for all the numbers.
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Originally Posted by FastCarFanBoy
Now the bombshell gets dropped that magazines dont actually use the timing equipment at a drag strip if and when they even use an actual drag strip to do testing on.
Whats going to be the next big shocker? that magazines and manufacturers dont use timing equipment built into road courses like VIR, SoW, The Ring and they bring their own. How can we ever know the times are accurate...they could be off 2-5 tenths in just a 1/4 mile after all.
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This is the part I do find funny. They use their own equipment so everything they test falls in with the same variables.
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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
Ok, in all fairness, M6G has an entire thread titled Guess What, Motor Trend favors the Camaro, again... that is up to 65 pages and almost 1,000 posts. That’s on top of any Mustang vs Camaro threads.
The popcorn has more butter over there.
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Camaro5 was pretty bad with fanboys and IMO some really out there posts. M6G, takes that cake....no they take the whole bakery. Probably one of the worst Mustang forums I have ever visited lol.