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
0 to 60 is important if you merge on hiways and interstates.
you merge onto a highway from a standstill?
Surely you mean 30-80 is the speed you’ll be going when merging
When turning left from a stoplight.
Around here it’s 30-50 on the onramp and just rip in front of people doing 15-20 below the posted speed limit…
Most on-ramps in bigger California cities have metering lights. You have to accelerate in a pretty short distance often.
The ones onto the 405 in OC are fucking terrible. I have to give it like 75% throttle to merge safely even in pretty quick cars. I swear at least half the reason there are so many Teslas here is due to the fact that the average OC commute has like 4 drag races in it.
Each way has one on the on-ramp and another just to get into the lane for that on-ramp