Either James May reads AutoSpies or great minds think alike.
That's because it was only so long ago that we ran a story questioning why performance figures are so important. Why argue over a tenth of a second?
I still can't figure out why zero to 60 is considered an industry standard but I guess every subject needs its respective benchmark.
Anyhoo, legendary James May of Top Gear UK wrote this week about power and also questioned why we are so caught up in meaningless performance figures.
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Power is a wonderful thing, but there is a point beyond which it becomes not only facile but is in danger, as W O Bentley might have said, of corrupting performance.
I still believe that the pleasure of driving comes not from the absolutes of performance, but from the nature of its delivery....
[Source: Telegraph]
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