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LETHURIN
November 2, 2009 12:11 AM
Its turbocharged, meaning it will perform even better at sea level without a hill.
Also its 0-60 is about the same as the others, I think. Impressive for a v6, admit it. Of course it is bias! I would like to see a comparable European test, and who gets the advantage! Besides...your BMW won, so shut up! They could have thrown in one of those new V8 caddys, to make it seem less like a promotional..
Point is, for the price, you get(in my opinion, superior design on the outside, good on the inside, and serious horses. Its good to see Ford coming back into the luxury market. Just wait another few years and see what happens.
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kylesvt720
October 30, 2009 09:23 AM
turbosRfun is completely right. This test is setup to make the MKS look much better than it is. Run the test at sea level, and it will be at the back of the pack.
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bracksa
October 27, 2009 07:57 PM
Ford is back with a car to impress the masses with its style, well thought use of room, a great, powerful engine with the economy that this country needs. Thank you Ford for bringing back the American Spirit that we have lost. Let's go back and get the TOP HONORS that we deserve. This car, in my opinion, will put FORD and the U.S.A. back on track.. Remember the job you save may be your own.
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pullster
October 26, 2009 08:31 PM
Golly. An advertisement for Lincoln? No *** An altitude advantage for the turbo? Add another golly gee whiz - you guys are sooo smart. No wonder I'm not an engineer 'cause all that high-tech info would have done gone right passed (pun) me like a past-participle in a particle accelerator at Lawrence Livermore
Labs. Say that 10 times fast - or slow - depending on your altitude , I mean attitude.
Seriously, the reality is obvious. redundancy is entirely unneccessary, especially for engineers. What we have here is an awesome display of marketing/production/ skills. This is to o' the field video production. The editing alone is a masterpiece. Congratulations to the entire crew of pros who put this all together. Extremely entertaining;I watched every bit of every part. And I'm impatient as hell. Kudoburra.
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turbosRfun
October 25, 2009 10:54 AM
Sean,
Do you homework. A normally aspirated engine is down 16-18% in Denver at 5280ft. The dyno slips I have from a shop in Denver show that it takes a multiplication of about 1.21 to correct to sea level. The standard pressure in Denver is ~24.5 inHg - this is 17% below sea level. Standard pressure at 11,000 ft is 19.8 inHg this is 34% less and it will correlate pretty well to the loss of HP.
A modern Turbo car with electronic controlled wastegate will make more boost to compensate for the lower ambient pressure. Some cars will begin to limit boost at high altitude so they don’t overspeed the turbos. Perhaps the Lincoln lost some power but not much. More likely it had some noticeable lag.
Not only did the Lincoln have a turbo engine it was also AWD. This makes this ‘test’ completely an apples to oranges comparison. It would have been more telling to compare it to a BMW 535ix with its twin turbo engine and awd.
Oh yeah, I forgot - that wasn't the point. To call this a test and not a Lincoln add is a sham.
The producer of this goofball show obviously knows all of this – he won the Pikes Peak hill climb several years in a row with a twin turbo AWD Porsche.
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