2012 Motor Trend Best Driver's Car

Spikuh · 08-23-2012, 01:18 PM

No 370z?!?!?

Well, I guess it makes sense. Wouldn't be a competition otherwise.

Unless they included the 5.0 also...trollololo

Red__Zed · 08-23-2012, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Spikuh

No 370z?!?!?

Well, I guess it makes sense. Wouldn't be a competition otherwise.

Unless they included the 5.0 also...trollololo

HKYStormFront · 08-23-2012, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Spikuh

No 370z?!?!?

Well, I guess it makes sense. Wouldn't be a competition otherwise.

Unless they included the 5.0 also...trollololo

they only test cars that are new or revised for the year. also, the only reason the 2013 GTR was included was because they had one in their long term fleet. as they stated in the article multiple times, the testing is about how the car feels to the driver, not which ones provides the fastest lap times. they also stated that the aventador they tested was way heavier than the one they drove in italy and also felt strange. maybe they had a suspension setting wrong? i can't imagine that they had to add 300 lbs of structural reinforcement (and/or emissions) equipment to make it street legal here. that probably would have put it higher up in the pack. after reading the comments by the editors i thought the mclaren would have scored much higher but like they said, the car does too much for you while you drive it. many of my friends (who've never been in the car much less driven one) argue that the GTR does the same thing but they explicitly say that's simply not the case.

early prediction for next year's BDC: the new viper will be top 3

b1adesofcha0s · 08-23-2012, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

they only test cars that are new or revised for the year. also, the only reason the 2013 GTR was included was because they had one in their long term fleet. as they stated in the article multiple times, the testing is about how the car feels to the driver, not which ones provides the fastest lap times. they also stated that the aventador they tested was way heavier than the one they drove in italy and also felt strange. maybe they had a suspension setting wrong? i can't imagine that they had to add 300 lbs of structural reinforcement (and/or emissions) equipment to make it street legal here. that probably would have put it higher up in the pack. after reading the comments by the editors i thought the mclaren would have scored much higher but like they said, the car does too much for you while you drive it. many of my friends (who've never been in the car much less driven one) argue that the GTR does the same thing but they explicitly say that's simply not the case.

early prediction for next year's BDC: the new viper will be top 3

They also added the 2013 GT-R because there were some revisions. A bit of a power bump and some suspension tweaking. Yeah the Viper should do well next year.

Spikuh · 08-23-2012, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

they only test cars that are new or revised for the year. also, the only reason the 2013 GTR was included was because they had one in their long term fleet. as they stated in the article multiple times, the testing is about how the car feels to the driver, not which ones provides the fastest lap times. they also stated that the aventador they tested was way heavier than the one they drove in italy and also felt strange. maybe they had a suspension setting wrong? i can't imagine that they had to add 300 lbs of structural reinforcement (and/or emissions) equipment to make it street legal here. that probably would have put it higher up in the pack. after reading the comments by the editors i thought the mclaren would have scored much higher but like they said, the car does too much for you while you drive it. many of my friends (who've never been in the car much less driven one) argue that the GTR does the same thing but they explicitly say that's simply not the case.

early prediction for next year's BDC: the new viper will be top 3

It's joke bro. I read the article before it was posted here. :P

And they think the extra weight on the Aventador is because of the heavier type of CF being used on the production model. Also, the 2013 GTR is in there because it was REVISED, not because it was in their long-term test fleet. It simply happened to be the same one.

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