TTAC Reader Pits Simulated MX-5 Against the Real Deal [with Video]

My company, Force Dynamics, builds full-motion driving simulators. They work by tilting you as the simulated vehicle corners or accelerates, so your brain is tricked into feeling lateral or longitudinal accelerations.

Sometimes people who watch our machines in action say, “This is moving way too much!” So when we started racing a Mazda Miata in the ChumpCar World Series, I decided to conduct an experiment.

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  • Kwik_Shift_Pro4X GM is dead to me. Until I rebuy a '96 Chevy Impala SS or '87 Buick Grand National.
  • MaintenanceCosts I was last in the RenCen way back in 2011, when a friend of mine got married there. Even at the time, the place seemed very underused.Footnote: I drove a GM product from Washington DC to that wedding and back. It did not get me any apparent special treatment.
  • Jeff I doubt most people care. Care more about their vehicles but after being a loyal gm customer for almost 50 years and having family members all the way back to my grandparents I no longer care. The last gm vehicle I owned was 2 years ago. To me gm can go into the dustbin of history.
  • Cprescott I'm surprised they didn't move to China. That is who bankrolled their bankruptcy bailout plan.
  • Analoggrotto You ask as if I should care. Well I don't. Any more questions?