11-13-2008, 04:43 PM
Steve85 Wrote:I think the point of the article is being missed.
It wasn't a test to see of the Lotus was faster than a Cobalt (for example), it was...
Car and Driver Wrote:We want to see how well a wide ­variety of performance cars combine their various dynamic elements in absolute terms in a controlled environment.
OK. But no-one wants to know that. The average joe reads the article and goes, "DAYUM, the cobalt is faster than a supercharged lotus!" And then people go quoting it on forums. Like this one. It's a disservice to the community. Much more useful would be "which car is the fastest around VIR equipped with some decent Z rated tires like anyone would suit them if they actually owned one and cared about performance"? Just because one manufacturer happens to make a package with some better tires than another shouldn't be allowed to shadow all the actual engineering differences between the cars.
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