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nberry said:
A couple of US car magazine tested the 350Z, the 911 and one other car I cannot recall.. The 350Z performance was on par with the 911 and in over all competition the 350Z won the contest by a rather large margin.
Yes in straight line performance the Viper is close to the CGT. It is rumored that the Viper will be getting a more powerful engine in the near future.
The point of the discussion is if you going to only focus in on performance in selecting cars you will not like the results. Porsche is not a staight line car but even if you want to compare it to the new Lotus Elise, which is substantially cheaper but performs as good if not better on a track, Porsche loses.
There are more to cars than what they do around a silly ring or drag strip. Tell you European's drive their cars with a sticker in the window giving ring times or whatever other times matter to them?
That is why Ferrari has been so popular. It is the total driving experience.
Nick,
My mistake, I forgot "performance" to you means straight line acceleration, but to me it means lap times ariound a track or backroad, handling, curve speed, endourance on hard driving, braking capabilities, acceleration, etc. If you take that into account you can see my comparison list varies from yours.
Its a more comprehensive concept to me highly related to the other concept you mentioned, "driving experience", which is then the result of that handling, steering feedback, driving characteristics, braking stability, etc.
That Nick, is actually the main "driving experience" concept of why Ferrari have been so popular, though I admit also that some people who buy Ferrari the driving experience is only about the image instead (and Porsche but to a lesser degree) and waste such cars using them for weekend cruisin' only which has nothing to do with my definition of driving experience or performance