This looks like fun
Bet you can have a whole lot of fun in one of these beasts! Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Jeep's launch control is standard on SRT8s for consistent, enhanced fast starts of the high-performance SU...
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DutchmenSport wrote:romore wrote:DutchmenSport wrote:
What applications would one use "Launch" for? Beating someone to that parking spot at Wall Mart?
It would be useful for merging onto our freeways.
If you access freeways from a dead stop, I can see where this may help. But in the US, you access interstates and freeways from a merge lane, not from dead stops, unless you live around Dallas Texas at 5:00 pm!
Here in the Phoenix area many of our freeway entrances have traffic lights which allow only 1 vehicle to go at a time during heavy traffic hours...so here, you have plenty of opportunity to merge onto a freeway from a dead stop!
I'm betting that the launch feature will be treated like the ability to manually shift many of today's automatics; the first few weeks it gets a lot of use, then as the novelty wears off, less and less.
When we first bought it I was constantly manually shifting the Aisin 6 in our V8 XC90; now I just select D and go, LOL.
