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Originally Posted by fatoni
car reviews are never given base models. even if they were trying to spin something, the miata isnt ever about being a game changer. its just trying to do what brittish roadsters did but without breaking. saying that toyota equipped the frs with "low grip" tires to prove the efforts in suspension rnd is absurd. i hope you know that.
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I don't think that's absurd at all actually. You know the Primacy HP is a touring tire right?
Cars are usually designed and developed around two or three tire choices right off the bat. They could have easily went with something like Bridgestone RE series for example that's more fitting for a sports car and yet they didn't. I don't buy that fuel mileage standard requirement BS really.
I remember reading car magazines like Road and Track, Car and Driver, and Motor Trend sometimes they would have base model comparison tests (at least back then they would make an effort to have the cars in similar trims). This is going back to the late 80's and throughout the 90's.