Launch control on a road car? Bit naff or best thing ever...
Discussion
SHutchinson said:
Think of it like this. You know those videos of young women that do energetic and/or acrobatic bedroom moves? Well, your wife has the ability to do all of that. It's built in as standard. But, in every day operation she doesn't, she's just in comfort mode. However, every once in a while it seems like a great bit of fun and frivolity, so she activates dynamic mode and sits with her left foot on the brake while revving it up. Then you're away!
If you want to use LC, just pay to use another car you don't own.I can think of an analogy which fits my suggestion and your example perfectly- but it might get me in trouble here ...
I take my car to the drag strip every other weekend and the launch-control was highly effective when I was using the OEM Goodyear Eagle F1 tires.
I use it much less with drag radials on the rears because they hook-up so well.
I have never had cause to use it on the street.
2015 Dodge Challenger 392 Scat Pack, with ZF 8-speed auto.
I use it much less with drag radials on the rears because they hook-up so well.
I have never had cause to use it on the street.
2015 Dodge Challenger 392 Scat Pack, with ZF 8-speed auto.
Matt Harper said:
2015 Dodge Challenger 392 Scat Pack
Scat pack? Scat?As in http://www.bear-tracker.com/animalscat.html
Scat Pack? Scat? - yes - unfortunate name, derived historically from.........
www.scatenterprises.com
However, it's somewhat more purposeful than it sounds.
www.scatenterprises.com
However, it's somewhat more purposeful than it sounds.
Ozzie Osmond said:
If you want to play at the traffic lights Grand Prix the best place to start is a car with four-wheel-drive (no, not some daft SUV). There are some mega-powerful 2WD cars but tyres are the limiting factor.
God no, the only cars I ever see being launched gingerly on sprints are the 4WD ones - too much risk of destroying a clutch or one of several diffs if it doesn't spin up well..To me, the whole point of launches (on circuits..) is fine control of the start revs, clutch engagement and throttle takeup. If a computer does that for me, I might as well be on a rollercoaster instead.
what makes no sense to me is an automated "launch control" that'll quickly trash stuff if you actually use it. I'm perfectly able to destroy expensive components with heavy handed f
kwittery while grinning like a moron, surely the ideal of a computerized launch sequence is that it'll allow you to make the optimum showoff poser getaway while keeping the clutch etc within reasonable threshold?
kwittery while grinning like a moron, surely the ideal of a computerized launch sequence is that it'll allow you to make the optimum showoff poser getaway while keeping the clutch etc within reasonable threshold?I remember reading about a guy in his DCT M3 and he tried it at Santa Pod and lost control and nearly crashed into the barrier...I think I will stick to a three pedal manual instead of all this electrical intervention...then that way when you get it wrong you only have yourself to blame!
Pointless gimmick, like those plastic diffuser-like undertrays that shopping cars seem to have these days. I don't know if it's still the case but BMW M car warranties would be invalidated by more than 15 uses of the launch control, except in the US where consumer law wouldn't allow such an exclusion, so they set it to work at much lower revs.
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