Objective performance

[Michael Williams <daserde@ucla.edu>]

This is from my friend who devised the way of rating cars objectively...


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Date:        03/22  7:08 PM
Received:    03/22  9:02 PM
From:        CM1022, CM1022@aol.com
To:          daserde@ucla.edu

Please give this to the list.

There must be an objective criteria for performance.  Come on!  For god's
sakes, a Metro is not a McLaren F1.  These are objective ideas- which one 
is
faster?  I define performance as all around- all the things you want to be
low, all the things you want to be high.  Take them all, find the 
averages,
read the statistics, and find the best performance car.

I take all stats I can find- R&T, MT, any car mag, manufacter's claims, 
etc.
This makes for a good all around method of finding what is objectively 
faster.
I understand that these tests are in fact never perfect or impartial, but 
they
DO give a good general idea, and the more stats the better.

The old subjective vs. objective idea can ONLY be applied to performance.
These are testable traits of a car, and lend the bottom line to the 
arguement.
And that line is "If it is a better performer, it will show up in the 
stats.".

Numbers, math.  That is the objective language.  I have developed a system
that takes into account everything that a car can do well, and should do 
well.
The end result is a statistical analysis that lends objective truth to 
the car
debate.  

It's not all apples and oranges.    


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later...


Michael Sheridan Williams

My new one: 1985 4000 S Quattro
175,000+ miles, and going like a new car
Well, went like a new car.....right into a guard rail :o(

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