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Road and Track Free-for-All: We pit the most exciting exotic and GT machines against one another, at four venues. After the lap times are tallied, who wins?
When it comes to comparison road tests, Road & Track has always led the way among the world's automotive magazines, as we have consistently devised unique and innovative ways to pit one automobile's performance traits against another's. Features such as "The World's Fastest Cars," "0–100–0," "Kings of the Quarter Mile" and "The Standing Mile" have become R&T trademarks, often forcing other publications to imitate our ideas outright. Well, here's another one to add to the list.

Despite the soaring cost of gasoline, the popularity of high-performance sports cars is alive and kicking, and we thought it would be intriguing to see how the latest and greatest fared against one another in what could be our most grueling format ever, an all-out romp on four challenging layouts: an autocross, a short road course (Streets of Willow Springs), a long road course (Willow Springs International Raceway) and, for a unique twist, an oval (Auto Club Speedway, formerly California Speedway). We invited experts in each field to get the most out of these 10 cars at each location: eight-time national autocross champion Gary Thomason, former champion road racer Steve Millen and IRL driver Roger Yasukawa. Because of the large-scale nature of this story, not to mention the wear and tear on the cars involved, we asked each of our hotshoes to jump quickly from one car to another, without much by way of familiarization, and provide us with consistent levels of aggression at each challenging venue, stressing safety as the main order of the day. They delivered with flying colors.

So with the stages set and the players assembled, let the melee begin: Aston Martin DBS vs Audi R8 vs BMW M3 Coupe vs Chevrolet Corvette Z06 vs Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR vs Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 vs Lotus Exige S 240vs Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR vs Nissan GT-R vs Porsche 911 GT2 Read Article
Road and Track Free-for-All: We pit the most exciting exotic and GT machines against one another, at four venues. After the lap times are tallied, who wins?



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Kraut_godKraut_god - 7/23/2008 2:24:08 PM
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silly little krauts.

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auto001auto001 - 7/23/2008 2:41:40 PM
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I say viper and GT-R share first place.

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bigmotovbigmotov - 7/23/2008 3:40:31 PM
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I say you say something original and worthwhile.

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HSCenterconsoleHSCenterconsole - 7/23/2008 3:21:18 PM
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1 Lamborghini
Gallardo LP560-4
2 Dodge Viper
SRT10 ACR
3 Nissan GT-R
4 Porsche 911 GT2
5 Audi R8
6 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
7 Aston Martin DBS
8 BMW M3 Coupe
9 Mitsubishi Lancer
Evolution MR
10 Lotus Exige S 240


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M35MTM35MT - 7/23/2008 3:21:35 PMView My AgentSpace
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Steve's favorite trait of the GT-R — its consistency. "It feels really good. Just so solid...it gives you a lot of confidence, and you can push very hard."

The word "confidence" seems to be used over and over again when describing the driving experience of the GT-R. I wonder how it would fair with smaller wheels & some snow tires in the middle of a nor'easter...sounds like fun.

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HSCenterconsoleHSCenterconsole - 7/23/2008 3:35:12 PM
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I wonder how long Michael Taylor's rant about why the IS-F wasn't included will be.

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chewychewy - 7/23/2008 5:09:18 PMView My AgentSpace
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It looks like four wheel drive sports cars did pretty well here.

Looks to be a very good comparison that really looks for the best car on different tracks

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ThierryHenry14ThierryHenry14 - 7/23/2008 5:49:14 PM
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I think they should have used a GT3, personally, because its more of a track performer...

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FerrarisR4meFerrarisR4me - 7/23/2008 8:34:40 PM
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chewychewy - 7/23/2008 9:59:22 PMView My AgentSpace
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Ferrari doesn't really give out cars for comparison tests because they might get beaten. That's what some say.


C63AMGC63AMG - 7/23/2008 11:35:06 PM
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Where is the C63 AMG?

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WhattheWhatthe - 7/24/2008 10:36:40 AM
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How does a Gallardass come in second in an autocross?
A true autocross doesn't exceed 55mph. Normally they aren't horsepower courses like the one they are driving.
The lotus or Porsche would kick ass on a proper course.
Other then that, cool article.

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chewychewy - 7/24/2008 11:07:15 PMView My AgentSpace
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watch the video, they have the autocross from the lotus
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