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Originally Posted by Mustang Fanboy
These guys are no more a professional than I am. I have years of experience in the 1/4 mile and thousands of passes. Am I a professional? Hell no. To say such would be an insult to those that do it for a living.
These amateurs can not extract the performance needed in all vehicles, plain and simple. The car that is easier to driver will be quicker...but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the quicker car. This is the difference between them and the pro's. The Pro's are able to extract every ounce of performance out of the vehicles.
In the end, it's these guys jobs to write sell magazines. They don't get paid to drive cars, they get paid to write articles.
You can argue with me until you're blue in the face...I'm not budging on this one.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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I didn't say or even imply that the magazine guys are on the same level as a professional race car driver. But your analogy is completely inaccurate. By your analogy, a guy who never went down the 1/4 mile track but sits on the sideline and writes about it, has the same skill level as you. My point is, that is not true. If you put 1000s of passes down on a 1/4 mile track, you are better than folks that haven't. Plain and simple.
But to call these drivers amateurs and the same as a guy on the sidelines is not at all a fair analogy. They drive stock performance cars for a living with the purpose of being able to articulate in an article how the car performs and how it compares to others. Isn't that the skill set we are looking for??
It really doesn't matter at all which car Randy can drive faster unless you plan on hiring him to drive you around all day. By your own words, you will never be able to do what he does. What we need as consumers, is an objective evaluation of the performance characteristics of these vehicles, and how they compare to one another. As it turns out, that's exactly what the reviewers do for a living.