QOTD: Do Ring Times Matter?

We've covered the Honda Civic Type R's Nurburgring time twice already due to the fact that we find it beauteous absorbing to spot what a FWD sports car tin do.

That said, we besides cognize that manufacturers emotion to tout the 'Ring times whenever they can.

We're wondering, bash you care?

My conjecture is that immoderate of you bash -- it tin beryllium bragging rights for owners of definite models, and it tin marque for amusive trash-talking conversations. But I besides fishy the bulk of consumers, and galore enthusiasts, don't.

Personally, I attraction to an grade -- arsenic I said, I find it interesting, particularly successful the lawsuit of a car similar the Civic Type R. That's wherefore we ran 2 stories connected it -- it's a amusive topic. That said, erstwhile it comes to the Type R -- oregon immoderate show car -- I absorption much connected different aspects of performance. In different words, the 'Ring clip is simply a bully feather successful the car's cap, but not my main determining origin if I was comparing the car to its contention oregon reasoning of buying one.

How astir you? How overmuch bash you care, if you attraction astatine all?

Sound disconnected below.

[Image: Honda]

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