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Old 08-28-2008, 11:33 PM
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Motortrend article and video - 2008 MCS
See video here:

http://www.motortrend.com/av/roadtes... eo/index.html

and article here (part 1):

http://www.motortrend.com/features/p...sts/index.html

and here (part 2):

http://www.motortrend.com/features/p...ing/index.html

The conclusion article is supposed to be available tomorrow.

Enjoy
 
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Awesome vid, thanks for posting this Charlie
 
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Thanks for sharing
 
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You have to dig deep but he was using the Sport mode for the tests. It is also obvious he is not a fan of front drive cars.
 
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Pobst? He races FWD Mazda 6...
 
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Interesting, the impression the article gives when he is describing the differnt cars after the track run is Now that I got the FWD cars out of the way and the 2 FWD cars in the test are 8 and 9 out of 10.

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Pobst? He races FWD Mazda 6...
 
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Bah. MCS got the slowest lap time. Do it again with a JCW.
 
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I also wonder what options the MINI had, like sport suspension, limit slip diff, and did they have the sport button on.
 
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