Mike

make that 3

chef chris

DUDE, DID YOU LOOK AT THE DATE ON THAT THREAD BRFORE YOU DRUG IT FROM THE GRAVE???

YOU NOOB...

Soopa's gonna cut you for wasting bandwidth...

You had better donate now...

EVANCRUZ

now that's what i like to see! i love it!
would be interested in the conditions that day.
that lexus really jumped out there but leave it to mr. vetec to reel him back in..... i don't have a clue what the lexus is supposed to run but i thought they were faster then that. i guess i believed the hype.

EVANCRUZ

Black CL-S 4-Life

Sweet video. Way to reel in that GS.

scalbert

It was a nasty day; mid 80's (which isn't too bad) but the dew point was the same as the temperature, literally. The gnats were terrible along with a frequent head wind.

Everyone was running slower than they had or expected. My father-in-law couldn't break 15's in an SC430.

That was one of my worse times of the day but I also had luggage in the trunk and no prep as this was an out-of-town event.

Chaptorial

Not this thread again.

darrinb

i've driven a sc430 and a ls430, but no gs 400 or 430 yet, it is just me or they dint seem to fast at all, i mean there pretty quick but a lightly modded cl-s should have no problem w/ a gs in a 1.4 mile, i dont see how u guys are sayin a gs is quicker than a 540, i know stock vs astock auto vs auto a 540 will walk the gs

EVANCRUZ

my money would be on the 540....
the slowest i've seen a 6spd 540i run at pomona is 14.3@102.
and that guy didn't launch too well, it's probably a challenge getting that 3800 lb beast off the line.
never seen an auto run but it can't be much slower than that.

Aquineas

To say nothing of the fact that the 540i's clutch is very hard to modulate.

scalbert

A stock GS400/430 in average conditions will run mid to low 14's. This is on par with a stock 540i and faster than most CLs. A SC430 will turn mid 14's in the same conditions.

The feel is deceiving and not a good indicator of the ability. These cars are meant to be refined and as such try to hide their ability. But in the end they all do pull well. My old automatic CL-S with the basics had a hard time pulling on the SC430; to 100 MPH I could only get about a car or two on him.

Actually, the top speed may be higher on the GS (don't know for sure though) so in almost one and a half miles the GS may be going faster.

ThoroDredCLS

haha! Who pulled this thread up?

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