The week of exhaustive testing covered nearly 1,000 miles, and included a variety of terrain including trails, sand dunes, freeway and
instrumented track testing.
In fact, the F - 150 took the top spot in each of
our instrumented track tests (0 - 60, 60 - 0, quarter mile, 0 - 60 with payload, 60 - 0 with payload, and 0 - 60 with a trailer).
Not exact matches
Instrument Testing Our track testing took place on the abandoned runways at the former El Toro Marine Base in Orange County, California, which gave us plenty of room for acceleration and braking asses
Testing Our
track testing took place on the abandoned runways at the former El Toro Marine Base in Orange County, California, which gave us plenty of room for acceleration and braking asses
testing took place on the abandoned runways at the former El Toro Marine Base in Orange County, California, which gave us plenty of room for acceleration and braking assessments.
Each vehicle is driven on a standardized road -
test loop and visits the publication's
test track for
instrumented testing in controlled conditions.
First, Carlos heads to the
test track to put the reborn 460hp V8 - powered Stingray through the full barrage of Motor Trend's
instrumented tests: 0 - 60 mph acceleration, quarter mile, 60 - 0 mph braking, lateral acceleration, and figure - eight.
AUTOMOBILE's All - Stars criteria is weighted more on subjective attributes than
instrumented testing — although the editors found the Z / 28 more than adept on the
track, noting in their story: «Chevy didn't build the Z / 28 for the logical buyer.