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Originally Posted by spicyricecake
no one is fighting over anything. it's called a debate. I personally love this video by Motor Trend, but have an opinion that the BRZ had an unfair advantage, but that advantage not being Mazda's fault. Bravo to Mazda for offering a performance package. More manufacturers should do that (cough* subaru)
At the end of the day it is preference, and no hate/bitching/whining/complaining is happening. If you don't like open discussions, then why are you on a forum?
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Thank you. It's remarkable sometimes how poorly people handle not agreeing with each other. Alluding to conspiracy was just plain ridiculous. Instead this test was mostly sloppy journalism (at best) and motivated journalism/PR at worst. Also, I'm kind of shocked at how much information some are willing to overlook to try and make their point.
If I were to have been author/editor piece knowing that the cars provided couldn't produce directly comparable performance data (due to trim levels, and-ons, and price) then performance data wouldn't have been highlighted to the degree it was (or even at all).
IMO MT seemed desperate to present an instrumented comparison. Desperate because they couldn't or wouldn't create a apples to apples conditions and also because their conclusion was that neither the BRZ or Miata are about instrumented performance. So why bother? MT's sloppy control method introduced so much cross talk into this comparison that the comparison has little value outside of what's obvious (both cars are light and fun).
womp womp