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I am certainly not questioning how the porsche and elise came out on top in this article. Nor was it my intention to create another "the Z is better than X because..." thread. Just scratching my head about the test. It has to cost a small fortune to perform such a test (the article mentions 10k in tire costs alone). So to spend money on this type of comparison (the kind of comparison that often gets flamed on this forum) just seemed so odd to me.

this article is so bs. Wheres s2000 and nsx? and ofcourse....the Z. and seriously....a GTI and a m3?.....really? gimme me a break

This, the lack of s2000 kills the list instantly.

But the NSX and S2000 are discontinued models, and I'm assuming that this is a new car comparison. All things being equal, though, I agree that those are amazing handling machines!

This ^

C&D can test drive my Dyson Ball. It handle all sorts of curves and corners like no other. Not sure why it didn't make the list. :icon14:

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How did those two get in there?

Who knows if the article was meant to be definitive. You could easily expand the list of cars listed into classes of vehicles. The GTI is a cost-conscious hot hatch, the Corvette a high-end muscle car, the GT-R the Japanese counterpoint, BMW M3 a luxury sport sedan (consider C55 AMG, RS4, or possibly CTS-V instead), the Mazda RX-8 a ~$30k import coupe (consider 370Z or Genesis Coupe instead), and so on. There would be little reason to have both the Boxster and Cayman.

Was it C&D or MT that did a similar article (pure subjectivism) a year or so back? I remember the BMW 135i placing LAST, something an owner of was, of course, very against.

But as before, it was just a "seat of the pants" test. Get a bunch of different cars together and race 'em around the track. Vote what's best. Seemed a random sample then - same here.

I find it interesting reading. Of course, I'd find it more interesting to see how the Z would fare. Mebbe they can't test as many as we'd like due to time/$$$ concerns?

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They crashed a Z, so its handling sucks d!ck... :)

well its easy to drive a car that just doest have the balls to make you lose control to begin with, but yeah, rx8's "handle" well i guess to say

Looks like they chose the GTR and the Boxster, and to not play favorites to one brand or company, they left off the Z and the Cayman. And they said in the article that they voted the GTI as their favorite FWD car, so it had nothing to do with its performance compared to the other cars in the test. They just wanted to look at all platforms. Still seems pretty pointless. At least they actually did the tests so you can see the results.