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Old 09-25-2008, 08:42 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Re: GM Dominates "Lightning Lap" 2008

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Originally Posted by logansowner View Post
Why no Mazdaspeed 3? The Caliber wasn't competition for the old SS, why would they even bother testing it against the new one? And the Volvo? Coulda picked some better competition for that class...

Some damn fine numbers for all 3 cars though. Cool article.
The SS Supercharged smoked the VW GTI and Civic Si in a previous Lightning Lap, so they weren't going to bring those two back against the quicker-still turbo. And I think they may have tested the MS3 last time, though it would have been nice to see them go head to head.

EDIT: The SS/TC beat the MS3's time by around 3 secs. Pretty impressive.
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