Comment on May not buff out

ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FLP22012005@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It can do 60-0 even faster.

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  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Within the length of its own hood apparently.

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• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love it when people know things

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  • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Must be why you left reddit. 😏

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  launch control

  Today I Learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_control_(automotive)

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would this even be present in a street legal vehicle?

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    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Money.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I sometimes wonder why the US even has a government.

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    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same reason Jeeps have more ground clearance and suspension travel than they need to operate on public roads. Some people use their vehicles for both transportation and recreation.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What the hell, that’s STOCK for a BMW M series?

    That makes skateboards sound safe.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s been pretty common in high end performance cars for over a decade. Good for Darwin awards.

      Fortunately it’s also noisy enough that you can IMMEDIATELY tell and get the fuck out of the way. EVs need to start making noise like that lol.

      The Grand Tour did an absolutely hilarious take on it, even Clarkson agreed it’s stupid in street cars

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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Today, that guy learned as well.

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I saw some assuming he was drunk but it is just as likely that this guy made a split second decision and jumped on it thinking what could go wrong I’ve done it before and poof.

  People don’t like to view vehicles as murder machines but they very much are. If raising the front end 40% increases the chance of death by 40% to pedestrians and the only benefis were “I like the way it looks” or in this case the car being designed to accelerate at speeds that arent comfortable or safe because “I think it can be fun sometimes” at the detriment of others is just poorly planned.

  Sure the guy is at fault, but so is the company that manufactured it, and the government bodies that allowed it on public roads.

  If someone wants to have a hobby playing with and racing cars, that’s fine; but they don’t belong in public areas.

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the same thought I had, that’s some incredible acceleration to have a crash like that inside a building.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fun fact, not even the most powerful version of that car, that would be the M4 which can do under 3 seconds in the xDrive variant.

    But it has enough tuning potential that you could get M4 performance out of the M440i no problem. B58 is considered to be the modern day equivalent of the Toyota 2JZ, to the point that even Toyota uses it in the modern Supras.

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    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve heard that the only thing slowing down cars now is tires. Like we can make motors or ICE hit the wall of material science in the rubber meeting the road.

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, EVs can drive their tyres at the absolute limit of traction on launch.

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