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Originally Posted by Sidious
What you are doing is dismissing performance aspects of a superior car simply because you never find yourself in a situation where it will be useful.
Just because *you* personally will never want to dance a car around a tight low speed corner, or overtake a car at 150 MPH in a sweeping cambered bend on a track that doesnt mean that it is redundant or that someone else wont find this useful.
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PMSL!! This from someone who has never driven a car even remotely that fast! Overtaking on a sweeper, ON A TRACK, is child's play. It's on a bumpy road where it's might take a little skill. More nerves than skill though, Skylines (tuned ones anyways, which Sidious has no experience with), do rather well in such situations. I remarked before about the lack of downforce-producing aids on the GT-Rs, and yet up to 165mph is rock-stable.
This is the Naegok-Bundang highway, on which I do my road mapping, and have run real-life comparisons with "real exotics":
It is 23.9km, and the start is at the top. The dotted lines are tunnels - the first is straight but ascends and gets bumpy, the second is constantly curved. The highway is closed-access, and has some bumpy surfaces, but is wide (usually three lanes per side), and there are a lot of elevation changes. Near the end, I tried to draw in chicanes that have been put in. Two of them are quite the roller coaster, as they roll up and down as they go from side to side. Being three lanes wide though allows for several lines however and they were recently made so the tarmac is very, very nice. Oh, notice the 45 degree left hander at the end. Hard braking on a curve, then e-brake and swing around the water barrels that sit at the end of the concrete divider. We U-turn there, and then run back. The end of the top tunnel is 23.9km if you've done the round trip.
None of it is very straight for long, but none of it turns hard enough to warrant lifting, except the turns after the center straight, and the twisty chicane bits at the end of the outbound/beginning of the inbound. I like this road because your car must be stable on less than perfect surfaces, yet you can (and must) maintain 150+mph speeds to run with the big boys. If your car is up to it (suspension wise).
You're right Stachi, so long as Sidious gets into the thread, suddenly, we aren't going anywhere fast. I don't imagine his driving to be any different.