Bruce Nunnally Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 It's back! The World's Greatest Drag Race returns with 10 of the world's best supercars and sports cars facing off in an epic quarter-mile sprint for glory... and ultimate bragging rights! This year's field includes all 10 contenders from Motor Trend's 2015 Best Driver's Car.We have the Mercedes AMG GT S, Bentley Continental GT3-R, Chevrolet Corvette Z06, Cadillac ATS-V, Volkswagen Golf R, Porsche Cayman GT4, Mazda MX-5 Miata, Mercedes-AMG C63 S, Lexus RC F, Cadillac CTS-V -- all gathered together on an abandoned airstrip at El Toro Marine Base to find out which car is the fastest. Obviously these 10 competitors display a wide range of power and performance, so why do we continue lining them up for one, over-the-top drag race?... Because We Can!World's Greatest Drag Race 5 concludes our special 2015 Best Driver's Car Week here on the Motor Trend Channel. We hope you've enjoyed all of this week's videos and we look forward to rolling out an all-new batch of amazing cars and amazing videos for you next year for Motor Trend's 2016 Best Driver's Car! CTS-V 11.9s @ 122 mph ATS-V 12.2s @ 114.2 mph (in solo testing MT said 12.3 @ 114.6, so very consistent) Bruce 2023 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing Follow me on: Twitter Instagram Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdgrinci Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Yay, for the Vette; the Caddys did real well too. Chuck '19 CT6, '04 Bravada........but still lusting for that '69 Z-28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Nunnally Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 I like side by side testing as it presents the exact same conditions except driver impact. I would suggest multiple runs to see what variances, and rotate drivers to see what changes, but good fun regardless. I am not sure based on video how each time was measured. I would also like to see a version of this test from say 1951 - or every decade since. Bruce 2023 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing Follow me on: Twitter Instagram Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airmike Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Now thats my kind of testing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadillac Jim Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 There are a variety of times in quarter-mile courses: response time, first 100 yards, 0-60 mph time, 1/8 mile time and speed, and of course quarter-mile time and speed. You can tell a lot from that information. I like to have lap times on a couple of courses with different layouts too, but that's a lot harder to get. And, it is hard to get numbers that are comparable, just like drag strip times, because differing temperatures, barometric pressures, surface conditions, humidity, sun heating of the surfaces, etc. makes comparing numbers obtained on different dates difficult to compare. -- Click Here for CaddyInfo page on "How To" Read Your OBD Codes-- Click Here for my personal page to download my OBD code list as an Excel file, plus other Cadillac data -- See my CaddyInfo car blogs: 2011 CTS-V, 1997 ETC Yes, I was Jims_97_ETC before I changed cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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