[JayNorth]

Some of the drivers in those car magazine tests were terrible.

Like the time Car and Driver or Motor Trend (can't remember which) took four or five $120,000 plus cars on a 2,000 mile comparison run and blew the clutch on one after a couple of hundred miles? Confirmed what I had suspected for some time.

[RatSlayer]

The instance I was thinking of, was a British writer who was trying to get 1/4 mile times for a 427 Cobra.

This idiot actually admitted to roasting the tires in all four gears while complaining about how the bad the times were.

BTW, I chose the word 'roasting' carefully. He wasn't just chirping the tires. The test ending when the left rear tire failed and destroyed the left rear fender.