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Old 09-17-2019, 04:37 PM   #108
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Originally Posted by JST View Post
All 'ring times are ultimately meaningless; they mean even less than 0-60 times for the average driver.
Sports cars are meaningless. But people buy them anyway.

Why make cars like a Porsche 911 and then evaluate it based on how well it drives the speed limit to the grocery store and back?

It's a purpose built device designed to do something that you don't actually intend to use it for, but it's fun drive it around on public roads anyway. Once you accept this premise (which admittedly makes very little sense), evaluating it on the ring is a very reasonable thing to do.
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