re: Overdrive's hatchback track test - Figo 1.5 diesel quickest! Quote:
Originally Posted by aamateen46 Well, whatever makes you happy.
But the fact is there is no standardization among these cars to begin with, except for their hatchback body style and making only the tyres as constant does not make it a true leveller for unbiased testing.
Why stop only at tyres? Why not test cars only with manual transmission / only petrol cars / only diesel cars, etc.
Atleast with stock cars, being untouched will remain the universal rule to actually infer that "X car is fastest amongst competition in stock condition" which sounds much more real rather than say, for example, "Figo diesel with JK tyres is fastest only when competition cars are also shodded with JK tyres", which does not relate to a real situation of all cars being shod with the same tyres.
Also, this has nothing in relation to being Indian. For instance, production cars are tested at Nurbergring with nothing in common between them (not even tyres) and yet their lap times are accepted as 'official' and marketed by manufacturers the world over as bragging rights. �� |
Look buddy if you are not clear on how track shootouts and comparos are done, then I'm sorry. Let me try explaining it to you. You need not compare the diesels to the petrols if you dont want to or the automatics to the manuals. No one is asking you to buy any particular car based on this comparison. It is just a question of which is the quickest around Kari. Transmission and Engines i.e. the drivetrain, is a part of what a car is and having same tyres installed on all cars in a track shootout, is the easiest way to ensure that the car's capabilities are tested fairly. This is the only way to purely test a car's true potential. If you want standardization in the manner that you are talking about then all you can have is the same engine, same chassis, same drive-train and same weight with the only differences being styling and colours and then what will you be testing? I guess you can test which tyre is best based on which one is offered on each of your "standardized" rides You don't go about asking silly questions like why compare a turbo charged Mclaren to a normaly aspirated Ferrari now do you? The way a manufacturer chooses to make their car is upto them and if we want to truly check the potential of their final product on a given track, then they must all run the same tyres. Absolutely no two ways about that. MotoGP and Formula 1 both employ single tyre suppliers for each season for the very same reason. Do people care about whether Yamaha uses an inline 4 or Honda uses a V4 ? No they do not, because it does not matter how the company wants to extract performance but that they all play on a level field using the same tyres.
Please don't be naive enough to bring the ring into this. In this case it is just a platform where manufacturers test either stock cars or modified ones with race spec roll-cages. The ring is a test of how fast a car or bike can go around it in any way that the manufacturer sees fit and each manufacturer just chooses options best suited to their car to get what they feel is the best lap times. Completely different to what this track comparison is meant to be.
At the end of the day, a track shootout is a track shootout. No one has said that it is relevant to everyday driving situations and no one ever will. If you actually give a damn about the key aspects like chassis balance, grip and tuning, then you will want all cars to run on the same tyres so that these differences are not masked by better tyres or revealed too much by poorer tyres. If you dont care about these characteristics of a car, then simply read road driving impressions and be happy who is asking you to read about track comparos?
Anyway, if you have a thing against such standard universally accepted practises, perhaps you should take it up elsewhere or maybe start a new thread discussing it.
Last edited by IshaanIan : 29th May 2016 at 14:12.
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