What are everyone's thoughts on this year's comparison? Was the M2 better or worse than expected? Which cars disappointed? Which cars amazed?
These are mine:
-- Surprised that the Tesla P85D is such a one-hit wonder, performance-wise. 11 second 1/4 mile beats almost any other car, but yet it can't make a lap around VIR without going into limp mode. Worst. lap. time. ever.
-- Surprised there isn't more Internet buzz over the Viper ACR. It only beat the Ferrari 488GTB, McLaren 570S, and Porsche 911 GT3 RS, to name a few. It actually beat everything else there...
-- Chevy is the big winner. All their performance cars are incredible overachievers at their price. The Corvette Grand Sport especially, laying down the same time as the 911 GT3, and beating the McLaren and Acura NSX. And then there's $44K Camaro SS 1LE beating the lap time of the $200K Audi R8 V10 Plus. Even the V6 Camaro 1LE shone - it obliterated the previous record in the LL1 class by 8 seconds!
-- Glad the M2 beat the Focus RS, V6 Camaro 1LE, and Dodge Hellcat at least. And it crushed the disappointing Audi TTS. But it got smoked by the Camaro SS 1LE (by 7 seconds) and Mustang GT350R (10 seconds) in its class.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...at-vir-feature