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To: Live2Sail who wrote (160525)10/27/2008 3:31:17 PM
From: Peter VRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
OT: track performance sells cars, but has nearly zero to do with real world driving. Once you have been on a track with a skilled driver, you realize how it would be impossible to drive like that on a public roadway.

Track driving is all about finding the line between tire slip and grip, and always involves some amount of slip, which is best to avoid on public roads with curbs and other hard objects to slide into. Plus, with the cars you are describing, the limits are so high that getting the car up to those limits requires very illegal speeds.

Not to say that having a fast, good handling car is not any fun. But comparing similar-performing cars to each other on the basis of track performance may not mean much on public roads. Just because one is a few seconds faster on a road course, or a couple tenths faster in 0-60, does not mean that it's going to be noticeable in day-to-day driving.

One other thing to remember is that the 1/4 mile and 0-60 times in most of the mags are not what you are going to be doing on public roads, because they use a full drag strip launch. I remember how R&T launched the Honda S2000: run the car to its 8000 rpm redline and dump the clutch. In this month's edition they describe the launch of the Subaru Impreza as "brutal but necessary," which most of us won't do to our cars. The C&D "street start" times are a better indicator of real world acceleration, as they time a steady 5 mph to 60 mph, and thus don't involve a full "launch" of the car.
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