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Old 11-19-2010, 12:30 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Yeah the weight distribution bugged me. I understand that the rear wheel arches are lower than the front but if you look at rocker panels you could clearly see how the body was raked lower in the front and higher in the rear. I'm sure the rear body is heavier than the front with all that glass compounding the problem. They should have placed the weight on the passengers seat if they were going to just randomly place it. Also whats for a show that claims to exact high quality results from its repeated testing whats with the "GO! click ZOOM click" stopwatch method of timing. All that effort wasted on inaccurate performance numbers. As we all know there are many quality in vehicle performance testing devices (even smart phone apps) out there that would have given them the real numbers. Still it was fun to watch and I guess thats where the money is.

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