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Old Dec 15, 2004 | 11:03 PM
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Thumbs down Re: Raced an SRT6 on the track today

[QUOTE=Uncle_Al]It is apparent that there have been several different takes on what the essence of this debate was about. I never saw this as a comparison shopping test. I don't believe that it was offered as such. The big Porsche was mentioned more as a means to establish the cred. and viewpoint of the writer. I was glad to hear the comments of a seasoned experienced driver who had some time to shake down a SRT. There have been some points made that otherwise may never have come to our attention. Sorry if we don't like them but that doesn't change the facts.

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Uncle-Al, I think the writer lost all credibility as an unbiased journalist when he raced a $200,000. Porsche against the SRT6, criticized the SRT6 relative to the Porsche and then got out of the $200,000. Porsche, jumped into the SRT6 and continued on about how badly it handled, obviously compared to the performance of the car he just got out of.

If you're a credible autombile journalist doing a review, you either compare vehicles of the same category, head to head or you review a single vehicle based on a set of standards that have already been set in the performance world for that type of vehicle.
Obviously, this was not where he was coming from. And then he felt it necessary to go back and scratch the original post because he realized he had made a blunder.

I don't find any of what he said credible because of the way it was done in the first place.
It is one automobile journalist that I believe we can do without.
 
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