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Originally Posted by John V
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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I’ve been in a handful of preproduction cars — although they were very close to finish and well past the prototype stage. Toyota put a cardboard sleeve on the driver’s sun visor with text on it saying the car was preproduction and not all materials were up to production spec. I honestly couldn’t tell in that car. I was also in a Nissan that seemed to be production quality.... But a prototype at this stage? There could be all sorts of tuning not yet done to make it squirely...