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
The point is, it was supposed to be an accurate measurement of the car’s capabilities. Now it’s just disingenuous marketing.
100%. But I think the marketing/sales aspect of that is in fact driving (no pun intended) the chassis toward a more race-centric feel and so as street cars they suck.