Wow intristing article, but what's really funny is the

"Which vehicle would you have voted the winner of our Cheap Speed, Round 23 comparison test?"


Article

The Poll (Mid way down on right)



I'm not going to say anything except there is alot more Chevy nut hugers reading C/D then i though

 

How's the title of it going to be 'cheap speed', than the fastest/cheapest car doesn't win. Ah funny the way the world works.

 

Car and Driver is retarded. I even like the RSX, but to say it's faster and cheaper than a SRT4 is retarded.

 

For those that dont want to read all 6 pages here is my biased point of view...


Article is called "Cheap Speed, Round 23" And they state this about the SRT-4...
"Not only does its turbo 2.4-liter four produce 230 horses, but it also churns out 107 more pound-feet of torque than the Acura. No surprise, then, that it bagged the quickest 0-to-60 time (5.6 seconds), the quickest and fastest quarter-mile blast (14.3 seconds at 99 mph), the greatest top speed (150), and the most enviable autocross time. The Dodge was the only car in our quintet to score a perfect 20 points in our coveted powertrain performance ranking."

Yet it gets 3rd out of 6...

And then to top it off here is what they say about the 1st place car (RSX-S)...
"Here we go again. That same old comparo conundrum. Our underdog victor offers the worst 0-to-60 time (6.4 seconds), the slowest quarter-mile time (14.9 seconds), the skimpiest back seat, and the most lackluster autocross lap."

Seams like the article and the judging donot fit the title of the article...

 

welcome to Car and Driver.

 

It wasn't an all-out performance test.

 

you'd like to think that this would have a little to do with it though:

Cheap Speed, Round 23

the title of the article itself. I think it's a bullshit article and I don't really like any of those cars in the list so I have no bias.

 

All the cars are relatively cheap and relatively quick. They've been doing the Cheap Speed articles for years, and it has never been about speed only. That'd make a pretty boring and predictable read.

It's called "Cheap Speed", not "The Speediest for the Cheapest"

 

oh, thanks for clearing that up.

 

Apparently it has very little to do with speed, when the fastest car in every single category finishes in the middle of the pack.