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Originally Posted by VADER SS L99
I think you mistake my post as meaning that new pony cars don't need any balance or handling. They do, it just doesn't need to be the main focus and priority. That's what 1LE and BOSS type cars are for, to fill that type of market. Even the great majority of those special cars will never touch a road course. I myself would rather have a good handling car with fantastic acceleration than a superior handling car with just good acceleration. I promise, that in the real world I am of the majority even if most people don't consciously know it. I don't even know ANYONE personally who have driven their cars to their handling limit in ANY type of environment and I know a lot of Vette owners. However, every single person that I know enjoys and frequently goes WOT in some sort of way. Yes, building cars that can go x time around a road course gets that brand good recognition from the Euro trash magazine writers, who in turn tell the reader it's a great car, who in turn automatically believes it's a great car and buys it. The fact of the matter is the VAST majority of those cars never experience their handling limit. They do quite often get driven hard in a straight line.
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...and an even GREATER majority of Hellcat owners will NEVER hold a personally-run 11.2 time slip, either...
Strap yourself into the driver's seat of a ZL1, a car capable of low-mid 12s, and send yourself off to Grandma's house, a 100 miles up the Pacific Coast Highway. Then, switch to a hellacious Hellcat, a car at least with the "potential" to run in the 11s...gee, maybe a whole second quicker if you're on a concrete pad with VHT stickin' like molasses to your Pep Boys tires, but with much less capability to handle the constantly-turning, elevation-changing vistas of said Highway. That may enjoy a recently-rare rainfall, or be dampened by those legendary Pacific mists...
With the possible exception of making a very risky pass on Ma 'n Pa Kettle's motorhome-rolling palace, with a tick or two's extra time to spare, people would generally pick the magic ride of the MRC-equipped ZL1 over the relatively lumbering gait of the Clysdale...
Total Package, with serious money spent in ALL areas of the car, vs. one with its budget largely spent JUST in the boiler room...for an everyday tick or two's-worth of "margin".
EDIT: Sorry, motorhead, I was editing the original...