I have a buddy who had the same frustrating experience. He has a Porsche 911 Carrera 4 and ran a best of 13.8 but was out in the 14s most of the day. Quite a frustrating experience considering this car is rated by magazines to run 13.1-13.3... stock. This guy has been driving and racing on the street quite a bit.
It comes out to the point that some cars require extremely good driving skills to run fast on the quartermile. Sometimes the car can be easy to drive, but the driver is the problem.
I personaly had the opportunity to try out that Porsche and embarassed myself twice. The shifter being very precice and quite different from anything I've driven before, I smoke the clutch twice. The first time I tried launching in third. Not good. And the second time I got the right launch (very fast) but shifted in fourth instead of second. Extremly bad!! This told me 2 things, don't judge the driver until you've tried out his ride... and let yourself have a leisure ride in a car you are about take it down the track.
My friend decided that his Porsche was simply not a good quartermile car. So he decided to get a 96+ Viper... and yes he is keeping the 2001 911 Carrera 4.
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