Driving enjoyment

[LimaDelta]

What if driving enjoyment could be measured? What if the intangible feelings associated with balance and feedback and tactile controls could actually be recorded and quantified? The metrics of a performance car, the 0-60, the Nurburgring lap time, the BHP top trumps have all influenced the direction of performance car design (and ultimately lead to more weight, bigger wheels etc.), but what if you could actually, definitively, say how well a car drove with a number as real as a 0-100-0 time? Do you think this would have changed the way manufacturers build modern performance cars? While performance is progressing, driver involvement and enjoyment seems for the most part to be regressing. Of course it is not possible, handling is as subjective as looks, and motoring journo's would be out of a job, but it is an interesting 'what-if' concept.

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Impasse said:

If the switches on the dashboard are poor quality how the heck can the driving be enjoyed?

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kambites said:

There are lots of parameters which can be measured but for the vast majority of them it's subjective what the "best" result is so you need to know an awful lot more about your own personal preferences than most people do for such figures to be any use.

Exactly. One man's twitchy is another man's responsive.