What on earth is the purpose of launch control??
Discussion
For some time I have wonder about this...have had the feature on cars since 2006.
Assuming street cars, not dragsters, I cannot figure this out.
I tried it at full abuse level on a Porsche Turbo S at Porsche track event ,,,both feet down, rev the hell out the the car, chug, chug,,,WAAAAH.....out of there with your face pasted back.
Strangely..I had the feature much earlier on an E63 M6 and never used it. I thought about how to take off from a traffic light....plan the timing of the green...set the damn thing up...rev..rev...GREEN.....Rubber streaks and the entire world thinking..what a moron in a BMW......BMW...moron..BMW.....
I never used LC on that car.
Now I have it on some current cars. Again, never used.
Are there any circumstances beyond dragstrips where people have used LC????...........
Assuming street cars, not dragsters, I cannot figure this out.
I tried it at full abuse level on a Porsche Turbo S at Porsche track event ,,,both feet down, rev the hell out the the car, chug, chug,,,WAAAAH.....out of there with your face pasted back.
Strangely..I had the feature much earlier on an E63 M6 and never used it. I thought about how to take off from a traffic light....plan the timing of the green...set the damn thing up...rev..rev...GREEN.....Rubber streaks and the entire world thinking..what a moron in a BMW......BMW...moron..BMW.....
I never used LC on that car.
Now I have it on some current cars. Again, never used.
Are there any circumstances beyond dragstrips where people have used LC????...........
RDMcG said:
Of course.on a bike its immediate. Launch control is a planned thing so makes zero sense to me.Maybe I am missing something. When I tried it at a Porsche demo it felt very hard on the car and I had a 'so what?' feeling. Certainly impressive acceleration..but...so what?
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