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08-12-2019, 11:37 AM | #52 |
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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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08-12-2019, 12:04 PM | #53 | |
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Also we don't know who was driving. The car is close enough to launch now that it might have been a journalist. |
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08-13-2019, 08:08 AM | #56 |
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I come in a with a bias that they were blasting down a difficult road with unfamiliar sightlines. If it came down to tire psi's, and alignment tweaks, they were going too fast, period.
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08-13-2019, 08:46 AM | #58 |
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Not an expert? Your RX8 thread proves otherwise (which is also pre production, as you are still tweaking it)
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