What do you think is the relationship between a car's price and it's lap time on the Top Gear test track?

Currently making an Excel spreadsheet of the results.

Will post graph in an hour or so.... make your guesses!

3/12/2008 9:57:53 AM

oh jeez.

price doesnt matter.

you can build a car that will blow a lot of them out the water for a 1/4 price.

hell, beef up my civic and you have a contender

3/12/2008 10:15:06 AM

3/12/2008 10:26:40 AM

oh i see, you're just doing the cars that were on that show.

3/12/2008 10:31:05 AM

Yeah. And I am too lazy to do all 127 of them.

3/12/2008 10:54:22 AM

Did they ever do an STi test on Top Gear? I was hella impressed with the Evo MR and I'd like to see how it stack's up in comparison.

3/12/2008 10:55:21 AM

You left out your indepedent axis label -5
No units in parenthesis -3
Old school office 2003 graph -3
Hard to Read Independant line names -4
No trend line -5
...
MAE Lab Grade : 17

/rant

3/12/2008 10:55:35 AM

Make Price the x axis, time the y axis, and label each point with the car name

3/12/2008 11:00:58 AM

^^ its sad, but I was thinking along similar lines. mostly just "wow that graph sucks"

[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 11:30 AM. Reason : *]

3/12/2008 11:29:59 AM

come on kids, the guy's not a techie.

3/12/2008 11:38:03 AM

dude I was a history major and I had to make better graphs than that...

3/12/2008 11:41:33 AM

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"Did they ever do an STi test on Top Gear? I was hella impressed with the Evo MR and I'd like to see how it stack's up in comparison."

yes they did. They did a side by side comparison of the STi and Evo. The Evo won in most categories as far as performance but they still picked the STi as the winner because of styling and personal choice.

3/12/2008 11:41:59 AM

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"hell, beef up my Quinn's civic and you have a contender "

3/12/2008 11:50:26 AM

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"You left out your indepedent axis label -5 No units in parenthesis -3 Old school office 2003 graph -3 Hard to Read Independant line names -4 No trend line -5 ... MAE Lab Grade : 17 /rant"

yeah i was thinking the same thing. except in my head independent was spelled correctly

3/12/2008 11:53:07 AM

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"Make Price the x axis, time the y axis, and label each point with the car name"

how do I do that


And if anyone is gutsy enough:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_Test_Track#The_Power_Board

Do all of those


EDIT: Here is a better one. I can't get the names field to correspond with the points, though:



[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 12:33 PM. Reason : ]

3/12/2008 12:20:08 PM

is horrible... these graphs

3/12/2008 1:01:25 PM

dont try to fit a line to this data. just do it as a scatter plot.


also, next to each dot you could put what the car was .

[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM. Reason : more]

3/12/2008 1:02:56 PM

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"They did a side by side comparison of the STi and Evo. The Evo won in most categories as far as performance but they still picked the STi as the winner because of styling and personal choice."

I can see that.

3/12/2008 1:20:10 PM

You want price to be on the x axis because it is the independent variable.



[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM. Reason : .]

3/12/2008 1:24:57 PM

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"I can see that."

do you have a link for that?

3/12/2008 1:39:36 PM

this comparison would be much more interesting in the 100k and less price range

3/12/2008 1:40:42 PM

^I posted the link. Go grab all the cars, make a chart, and see how it pans out.

3/12/2008 2:54:50 PM

It's all over youtube. Search Evo vs Sti and find the top gear episode for it.

3/12/2008 3:03:49 PM

id do it, but i dont want to google prices

3/12/2008 3:05:22 PM

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so the times are all spaced apart equally? (and WHAT are the times?)

dude, wat?

3/12/2008 3:39:42 PM

apparently, they all can run the track at 0 seconds...

3/12/2008 3:45:47 PM

[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 5:15 PM. Reason : .]

3/12/2008 5:15:01 PM

graph the lap time on a different axis. Excel allows you to specify to used a 2'nd X-axis

3/12/2008 6:49:13 PM

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"# 1:37.0 – Porsche Boxster (very wet) # 1:37.3 – BMW Z4 3.0i (very wet) # 1:37.4 – Honda S2000 (very wet)"

Yeah she was

3/12/2008 7:22:40 PM

Chass major FTL

3/14/2008 9:48:07 AM

Chass major FTL

3/14/2008 9:57:04 AM

g fucking g, G

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"Chass major FTL"

3/14/2008 10:12:19 AM