Launch control: is it just for x-power?

[fnegroni]

Do any other models have launch control other than the x-power?

Reason I ask is because I didn't know if mine had it or not. Watched a video showing the sequence for the x-power: left foot on brake, right foot on accelerator: press brake hard, floor the accelerator.
Power builds up to about 60%
Release brake, car launches!

Tried it on my SE SR gen1, and works exactly the same.

Has anyone else tried?

 

[liput]

I may try it next time I'm on the M6 toll as I pull away in my trophy

nice to see how quickly you can get to 60. though an immature friend of mine told me they got to 93 by the national speed limit sign (~1/4 mile)

 

[fnegroni]

I only ever launched to 30mph (I had engaged the auto speed limiter)

 

[Vingnut]

Tried it, it works but kind of bogs down the first couple of feet then it goes. To be honnest, it is almost as fast to just floor it. And if I just floored it and go it's much faster than standing on the brake pedal and waiting for the power to build up.

 

[fnegroni]

having tried it a couple times with a passenger onboard: we noticed that when accelerating after holding the brake pedal firmly down, the telltale sign the ‘launch control’ is engaged is a kind of thump sound, just once, as if coming from the brake system engaging something (possibly the traction control: there’s hardly any slippage yet the acceleration is violent)
If you don’t hear that sound, then the launch control hasn’t engaged and it will bog down when releasing the brake.
Even in the SE SR the difference with and without launch control (or whatever it is) is quite noticeable

 

[dsimpkins]

Interesting, do you have to have the car in a particular driving mode? Does it work in Eco, Normal, Sport, or a particular mode?

 

[fnegroni]

I think it worked in Normal mode as well as Sport mode. Haven't tried the others. Will double check next time I get a chance.

 

[Ian Key]

I hope the clunk isn't the overload protection activating because the electric motor has given up trying to move the car

 

[fnegroni]

I hope the clunk isn't the overload protection activating because the electric motor has given up trying to move the car

The power % builds up to 60% after the clunk, and there's no noise or anything indicating overload.
If you don't hear the clunk, however, power % fluctuates and as soon as you release the brake, the motor starts from 0% power.
TBH I am not in need of launch control anyway. The last time I tried on a Corsa-E it didn't work.

 

[Rolfe]

I just know I'm going to have to try this now. Although I don't know where.

 

[fnegroni]

Tbh any traffic light. It’s not like the SE SR is going to rip the tarmac. Just set a speed limiter first to say 40mph

 

[Rolfe]

Tempting...

 

[mg4mc]

I tried it a while back, I didn't think it made a dramatic difference, a bit quicker

 

[Rolfe]

Someone tried to race me off the lights on Saturday and I wish I'd been ready for them. Could have been handy.

I moved forward just expecting to be way ahead of the opposition as usual and this car to my left suddenly made an issue of it and stayed with me. Since I wanted to move into the left lane and the guy behind him was a dinky toy in the rear windscreen I just left it and let him go. But grrrr.

 

[AB71]

Just FYI
Doesn’t work if you do it on a kIa Niro

 

[Nobbyplopps]

I’ll be doing this next time I’m stopped at the lights and the local skanky prossies are there plying their trade at the bus stop

 

[richlove]

I tried it on the SR earlier, power went to 49% and held there. Seemed to work, not sure how much quicker it is. Would be interesting to try with traction control off

 

[Swift]

I tried it a while back and timed the 0-60. Wasn't any quicker, it did exactly 7.3 seconds with and without it.

 

[BingBong]

I tried it on the SR earlier, power went to 49% and held there. Seemed to work, not sure how much quicker it is. Would be interesting to try with traction control off

Any wheel spin with this? The gets up to 100% power quicker?

 

[richlove]

Any wheel spin with this? The gets up to 100% power quicker?

Absolutely none, with traction control on. Will try today without it