On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:25:06 GMT, Andy Turner
It's not an implication it is a fact. However, they are still doing what you describe on a track and not a public highway.
Many people who are serious about their cars drive very sensibly on the public highway and then go and drive them much harder during track days. However, those who use the public roads like a track are idiots and I don't think anyone here would dispute that.
The vast majority, if not all, of modern road legal cars are more than capable of exceeding the NSL by a significant margin. Motoring programs wouldn't really be giving a car a thorough test drive if they tootled round the test track or 70mph or a public road obsering the speed limit would they? No, they look for the limits of the car, speed, traction, braking, handling, and like it or not this involves pushing the car design to the limit on a track. You don't find a limit until you exceed it and it's obvious on TG when this happens.
Things like TCS and automatic stability controls are designed to a great extent to make up for shortcomings in driver skill, a highly send driver wouldn't gain much benefit from them, more frustration that control is being taken away. Hence the Stig always does his laps with them off.
Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5401Well written Carl! Here's an example of the mutterings of freaks who support Transport 2000 (pasted from their site's forum) " With regard to reducing casualties on our roads, the nationwide increase in speed samera sites...
