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| Thread ID: 106171 | 2009-12-29 10:39:00 | Car - general | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 844086 | 2009-12-29 10:39:00 | Hey, took a long drive in a Toyota Camry 2.0L automatic. Is this due to Japanese family car designs? On the highway, doing 100km is fine but when you want to overtake you need to floor it before you get much acceleration. I know with a Audi A4, 2.4L V6 automatic, if you just add a bit of foot pressure it easily gets to 120km for quick overtake and then you withdraw your speed ... I heard BMW is similar. We also had a rental, Toyota Camry 1.8L might of been, automatic some years ago and we had to floor it again. Even still you only get a slow smooth acceleration unlike the Audi's. Unless I am wrong, there doesn't appear to be much difference between a 2.4 V6 to a 2.0. Plus even on the Audi doing 50km or 70km zones it just feels a lot more sporty. Add foot pressure and it changes gear and it kicks in.... I presume one can find more acceleration in other Japanese cars? Cheers. Ps. Out of interest. How are the Ford and Holden cars like this in the above regard? Ie., be it a V6 or a small Ford Focus? I also heard that from a mechanic that Ford has a better body ie., rust but the engine reliability isn't as good as the Japanese. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 844087 | 2009-12-29 11:12:00 | Its only 2 litre and the automatics suck up a bit of power that is lost as heat. You arent going to get earth shattering acceleration where you need a g suit Especially if the car was full of heavy huas. Cant generalize on rust nowadays everyone has got it pretty sorted |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 844088 | 2009-12-29 23:27:00 | It probably has something to do with the Audi having about 30kw and 60Nm more than the Camry.... Also from my experience european autos are far superior to japanese autos, especially form the '90s / early '00s |
lagbort (5041) | ||
| 844089 | 2009-12-30 00:34:00 | If you are both doing 100km/hr why would you want to overtake & risk getting a speeding ticket? The law says MAX 100km/hr. I know I am not the only one who gets peed off when driving along at about 100km/hr & some twit has to overtake just because they can! Road rage is fully justified...lol |
Paul Ramon (11806) | ||
| 844090 | 2009-12-30 01:05:00 | Lol its a Toyota and a Camry, cant get much more uninspiring than that. In Toyota's defence there performance brand is Lexus and they make some very nice cars. Mind due that Audi is only 0-100 in around 8 seconds which is not setting the world on fire, so I am wondering if your really talking about where each car kicks down? |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 844091 | 2009-12-30 01:55:00 | Toyota Camry 2 . 0L automatic . doing 100km is fine but when you want to overtake you need to floor it before you get much acceleration . I know with a Audi A4, 2 . 4L V6 automatic, if you just add a bit of foot pressure it easily gets to 120km for quick overtake . 2l vs 2 . 4l V6 vs . . . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 844092 | 2009-12-30 02:05:00 | frankly if you need to ask why the cars are quicker/slower .....or if a 3.8 or 4 litre motor car is going to be quicker/slower than a 2/2.4 litre motor car, you really shouldn't be driving at all let alone above 100km/h. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 844093 | 2009-12-30 02:24:00 | If you are both doing 100km/hr why would you want to overtake & risk getting a speeding ticket? The law says MAX 100km/hr. I know I am not the only one who gets peed off when driving along at about 100km/hr & some twit has to overtake just because they can! Road rage is fully justified...lolMonkeys who stick to the 100km's per hour are the same who accelerate on passing lanes just to try and stop faster drivers. And there's a good reason for overtaking a 100km/h driver... when you're stuck behind a truck and 10th in line and the morons in front of you don't leave enough space for you to overtake...!!! The above is why I bought a powerful car. Plonkers who can't drive to save their lives should be banned. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 844094 | 2009-12-30 02:36:00 | It's not so much the speed, its the responsiveness . I would of thought that at 50km or 70km speeds a 2L automatic should be more responding . The Camry is just mellow, it slowly grinds it's way there . When I talk about kick down, ok, not setting world records . The Audi is just a lot more responding . You don't need a lot of foot pressure and it gets to 125 for a quick overtake when a car is doing 90km then you back your speed to 100-105km . I never have to press the pedal as much as the Camry on the Audi . So I was bit reluctant to do that at first on the Camry . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 844095 | 2009-12-30 02:40:00 | So I take it if it was a Honda Accord or a Camry with a 2.4L V6 it would be somewhat similar? Or is this more the family car designs with the Japanese? If I recall you can get sporty cars that is Japanese but not V6, how are they like out of interest? I believe Japanese don't have as much V6/V8s as Holdens and Fords right ... |
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