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Old 01-10-2003, 10:36 AM   #16
rottenspam
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The other thing you guys forget too is that no two cars come of the assembly line the same. Just because they rate the engines in a WRX for instance at 227hp, that is what the nominal power should be. Because of manufacturing variations your gonna get some weak ones, and some stronger ones. Also keep in mind that each car they test has had varying amounts of breakin. Some come green with only a few hundred miles, and others come well abused.

But to make a long story short, all the cars are going to perform in some range of speeds, no two will be exactly the same when it comes to breaking/acceleration handling, heck even A/C cooling capacity. Its just like CPU's all come off the same assembly line and some are just better overclockers than others.

If you read in one of their recent issues, they actually compensate for differences in temperature, humidity, altitude, wind speed etc. So differences between cars is really just that different cars, and since they use only a couple of drivers doing multiple 0-60 1/4 mile runs, and they take the best 3 out of 10 usually.

Simple fact some cars will run slower just becasue they don't meet spec, some cars will run faster becasue they are better than spec. Of course Subaru would never give a Primo cherry picked car for a test would it? then when they get on for the long term test it isn't possible they got an average or belowe average car?
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