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Originally Posted by djsnoflake
Not many North American manufacturers use the `ring as a test place because Americans don`t know a lot about it yet. But in Europe, your ring time would a selling point like 1/4 mile here.
But yeah I can see why they wouldn`t bother testing the stang there. It has curves. So what`s the point  |
That's funny. In the few years that I lived in Europe, none of the local performance folks ever told me that some lap time made at Nurburgring was ever a factor in making a decision on what car they would buy. Imagine that.
Now, the internet boys, especially the tuner folks, like to use Nurburgring as the ultimate guide as to what is, and isn't, a good performance car. I can't count how many times the GT-R/Corvette/Porsche folks have gone back and forth about which car was better based on a lap time at that location. To each their own I guess.