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IS accelerating hard bad for a car?

Updated: 10/22/2022
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Hard acceleration is not that hard on the car. It is hard on the wallet as it will eat 4 times as much fuel.

Having said that, WOT acceleration time after time will usually take out your transmission first as they always seem to be the weakest link.

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