Porsche buys a Tesla Roadster for analysis

Watch porsche is going to claim that Tesla is lying about electric engine because the porsche in-house engineers can't duplicate it so therefore it is impossible.

Worse yet. They might come back and say that they've designed an electric car more powerful, efficient, and spacious. And that Tesla's design is full of flaws.

One for example , design , chassis and engine layout from Tatra cars .

Wow, Porsche needs to reverse engineer their future cars? They really are a "car" company. I'm sure there's a GT-R in their chop shop too.

They do, lol, and that's what Brembo was implying about.

TurboSpyder , Tesla Roadster and GT-R aren't Porsche's own cars .

No , of course Ferrari isn`t studying Hyundai and Infinity isn`t studying Porsche , Porsche is studing Tesla Roadster -> chassis from Lotus and other technology from Tesla .

no not Porsche AGAIN....ROTFF

Nissan GT-R

Porsche is actually very intensely testing the GTR :
"Our sources have since learned that Porsche purchased a GT-R in America soon after the car's official introduction and quickly air-freighted it to Germany ($40,000 is usually the tab for such an exercise). Some time later, members of the Porsche crew at the Nürburgring brought the car to the Nissan development shop near the track ... ***Porsche's GT-R had something over 3,000 miles on the odometer.*** Its tires were in tatters. The brakes were terminally toasted."

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=133406

They are seriously analysing it , like they're doing with Tesla Roadster .
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Yes , Lexus LS430 styling is imitation of Mercedes S class .

Lexus's reliability has been always an unmatched benchmark for Mercedes :
"Here's a brief blow-by-blow: In a listing of the least reliable luxury cars, based on 2006 models, three of the six cars are Mercedes: the old S-class (prior to the recent redesign), the CLS and the E-class Sedan."

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/17/autos/pluggedin_Taylor_Mercedes.fortune/index.htm

"Mercedes' quality is so imperiled that a 9-year-old Lexus LS 400 has potentially fewer problems than a new Mercedes ML."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-02-28-cr-reliability_x.htm

Not to mention Lexus/Toyota technology that have been benchmark for Mercedes like night vision , pre-crash system ...
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"According to Yukihiko Yaguchi, chief engineer for the Lexus IS-F: Since we were coming after the M3, there were numerical targets we had to hit, ***but those were not my target.*** There were some critical 0-60 targets, but most important was that it be fun to drive.”

Yaguchi says that while the M3 is fun to someone who is looking for performance driving, the car may not be appealing to everyone.


“We wanted the IS-F to be fun to drive for everyone. We wanted all the people who love cars and enjoy driving to have the same experience. The skill level shouldn’t matter, whether you are a novice or a racer. "

http://www.egmcartech.com/2007/11/12/lexus-chief-engineer-bmw-m3-provided-benchmark-for-lexus-is-f/
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BMW 3 wasn't a benchmark for Infinity G35 , Infinity G35 was a successor of Nissan Skyline which has been always a sport sedan and coupe and in fact it was sold in Japan under Nissan Skyline name , it was only rebadged for other markets .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_skyline
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Mazda Speed3 has more in common with Focus ST -> they share some parts . I don`t know what it may has in common with Golf GTI , power ->no , styling->no , suspension->no , so what?

And according to Nissan chief engineer , Nissan gt-r was build like their group C race car , he say this in a national geographic video about the Nissan gt-r .

TurboSpyder, you're hilarius. You even didn't understand my point(or you rather don't want to understand it). And the point is that they are seriously testing and analyzing the gtr and that is why it had 3,000 miles on the odometer. You should understand this becouse you started subject about the 911 turbo tested by Nissan.
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ADAC statistics that you quote doesn't even include any Lexus. And of course they show only small part of reliability.
http://www.autospies.com/news/VW-ahead-of-BMW-in-resale-value-rankings-35273/
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Group C race cars are competing in japan touring car championship. And again you didn't understand the point. And the point is that benchmark for the GT R design(construction) was their own racing car, doesn't matter in which races it is participating.