re Porsche having track times as part of design criteria.. I can hardly think of a less useful design criteria. Also an antiquated one that is completely backward facing, like they are living in the 1960s or something. The world has been moving away from private ownership of cars for at least a decade, the time when cracks started appearing in Japan as young people delayed or abandoned car ownership. In a world of non private car ownership track times...don't matter. Add self driving cars on top of this and it really becomes a WTF who cares. I care if I can drive my Tesla across the country. It already accelerates too fast for my own good, when do I actually need to go faster on a curvy street? Never. Stupid. The engineering accomplishment is impressive and completely useless, like analog HD TV that Japan spent a billion dollars creating. What this really shows is that Porsche is still being run by idiots. BMW at least is floundering so badly they fired CEO, when does Porsche do the same? All that engineering money should have gone into a question of how to drive the thing from home to a meeting 2 hours away and back. Which it can't do. They have engineered something ...but it is not impressive.
