a couple of interesting excerpts:
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These questions always come up because numerical performance is the easiest to understand.
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it's funny. people think how good a car is equates to how fast it goes from point to point b. speed doesn't count for much in the real, especially the legality of driving at excessive speeds.
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A lot of the cars on the market today are controlled by computers. People have the feeling that they are driven by the car instead of them driving the car. That makes for a boring experience. That is why we decided to go back to the basics of car making. With the low center of gravity, the driver now is in personal touch with the road again.
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my sentiments about all German cars today. I feel like the engineers are into outsmarting themselves and you more than building cars that satisfy the customer. the latter appears to be exactly the approach the guys at Toyota/Subaru took in developing this car.
good article. thanks for sharing.