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Old 08-12-2019, 11:37 AM   #52
John V
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I've talked quite a bit with engineers who work at various car manufacturers about prototype cars. It seems like in many cases they are, to put it lightly, kind of a mess in terms of their driving dynamics. Suspension calibrations are often well short of production levels, ABS and stability control are often not active / not calibrated, etc. Obviously we don't know exactly what happened here but it seems awfully foolhardy to take a preproduction car out and thrash it on public roads.
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