I was looking through lap times of different production cars, and there are some wildly out of place cars doing ring laptimes, some cars are faster than they seem they should be, while others are slower than they should be. Which got me thinking how some cars truly get tested in showroom condition, and others get the “marketing” treatment to produce a laptime a showroom car would never touch, solely to sell more cars. Then I found this article that talks exactly about just that.
https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/11012/nurburgring-times-dont-matter
Quite sure everyone saying it’s useless is referring to a real world commute, as multiple people have stated. Same way the original volt was rated for 200+mpg - PR stats are not always useful in real life.
Edit: was the volt, not the Prius. I get my bullshit stats confused sometimes I guess.