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Originally Posted by bimmer456
This reminds me of Motor Trend and their American Muscle Car bias. Apparently the Camaro is superior to the Nissan GTR and just about everything else and can go faster around a race track with their biased company employed professional driver. This despite being rear wheel drive vs All Wheel Drive and being slower according to everyone else.
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Actually, this is only recently. Motor Trend, Road and track, Car and Driver, Automobile Magazine have always had the M3 and the 3 series on their top 10 lists. In fact, they have been accused of being biased towards BMW.
Now, it seems that the Domestics have caught up, and it seems that at the same time, many of BMW enthusiasts are bemoaning that BMW has lost it's shine and that "M" stands for marketing. Coincidence? Is there some homegrown bias at play, yes. Just like with the Germans, but you can't deny that the domestics have stepped it up.
And let's not forget that Randy Pobst drove for Porsche and also raced BMWs and one of the reviers has an e30 wagon. And that Camaro that you mentioned? It was no ordinary Camaro, it was a Z/28 (you failed to mention that). And on another track, the GT-R probably would have won. The Camaro was never a Muscle car to begin with, it was pony "sporty" car to go up against the Mustang...and now, both have been more focused on sport, and aimed at the (Germans) M4.