I was looking through lap times of different production cars, and there are some wildly out of place cars doing ring laptimes, some cars are faster than they seem they should be, while others are slower than they should be. Which got me thinking how some cars truly get tested in showroom condition, and others get the “marketing” treatment to produce a laptime a showroom car would never touch, solely to sell more cars. Then I found this article that talks exactly about just that.

https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/11012/nurburgring-times-dont-matter

  • kaelis7@alien.top
    BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks mate, it’s pretty fun ! Can’t be sold in the US for some safety regulations reason iirc, but I think they’ll sell the EV replacement in the future. Some A110s were spotted on US roads in the last months.

    • edog21@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They brought some A110 Rs over here as press cars, that’s probably the ones that were seen around. Also I think it would be very stupid of them to try and break into the US market with an EV, the only Americans who know about Alpine are enthusiasts and we don’t want EVs we want a lightweight internal combustion A110.