Originally posted by Ostrich
things like the nurburgring and all that are used all the time to test cars to make sure they are more than capable at being driven over the limits of normal daily driving.
Sure, but there isnt loose dirt on the nur... Also, the factory isnt purpousefuly putting their cars sideways and keeping it there, or welding their diffs, or putting on different suspension and staggered tires, sure they test them to recover but the cars arent ment to "drift and drift alone" If that was the case we wouldnt have to modify the car at all.
No major mass-produced factory car is made to drift, or even to do serious motorsports straight out of the box. Even the Z06 or 360 challange stradale has loads of testing to keep bumbleheads from killing themselves, electronic or hardware tuning.