Originally posted by 98CoupeV6
I timed my AV6 7.4 seconds 0-60 IN THE RAIN and WITH SNOW TIRES. That's fast for a 3100 pound family car.
I don't do neutral drops. With winter tires or all seasonal tires you can just floor it from a stop and induce wheelspin (lots of it for my car), but with my summer tires I do NOT wheelspin. $600 is a bit pricey to be burning rubber at every stop light.
My Accord is fast. And I came from an RSX Type-S. I don't know what you came from. Maybe you're just hella paranoid...have you tried driving any other 98-02 V6 Coupes to compare your car with?
No, I dont think its that I'm paranoid; you did say that automatics are slow without gobs of torque---yet you consider your Accord fast; I havent officially timed my zero to sixty, but what I was trying to do was explain the "experience" of off-the-line characteristics of my vehicle...upon initial throttle tip-in, she hesitates and does not launch; it almost feels like a sack of bricks are sitting on my rear deck....although the tach revs like mad, she seems to get "stuck" in one gear...do we, Accord owners, have to floor our cars each and every time out of the gate to get decent acceleration? As for what I came out of, I was in a 94 Accord EX coupe before this one, with the 145-horse VTEC 4, and that thing was even slower, with the auto.