Duly noted. I did not know exactly where you tested the vehicle. I am a big gearhead and nearly all of the reviews I read are by groups with their own tracks, skidpads, slalom courses, etc. or at least access to them. I don't blame you for not doing testing beyond "how was it to drive this vehicle?" on public roads.
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I usually spend a week with a vehicle doing my normal driving and taking my family out in it. There's the occasional off-road adventure with cars that have that ability.
I do not have access to any of those tracks, unfortunately.
My daily driver is an F-150 with the twincam 5.0 V8. The truck weighs around three tons, more in the winter as I have 500 lbs of sandbags in the back for traction. You get used to the fuel mileage. I run E85 in mine as it is about a buck a gallon less than 87 octane swill but runs like a champ in the 10.5:1 compression V8 (it's 105 octane and my avatar is a picture of an octane sticker from an E85 pump.) Fuel mileage does go down a little bit though and I consider anything over 14 mpg to be "good." It's the "smiles per gallon" that really counts, as a buddy told me. You can't get as many smiles per gallon out of a piddly little four-cylinder engine econobox as a big V8 powered truck so it is more than worth it
I'm used to the 19MPG my 2000 BMW 528i (E39) wagon gets when I have fun with it. The occasional econobox or electric vehicle spoils me though.
I don't think I would even be thinking of the Pandora app if I had an SRT8 Jeep GC at my disposal. I'd put on a helmet and be heading for the nearest drag strip to legally and safely wring her out good
The vehicles are still owned by the companies and they have strict no track policies unless with prior consent, which is harder to get.
My favorite car magazine, Car and Driver, which I have subscribed to before I even had a license, uses number of beer cases as their space metric. I figured computer cases would be more appropriate for this audience. If you don't have enough cases to fill the area, you can always just use a larger case. My current machine uses a Chenming ATX-801F which is a double-wide early-1990s era case about the size of a large dorm fridge and is designed to swallow a quad-socket SWTX board with no modifications needed. My old Ford Escape could fit six of them. It was a fight between hitting GVWR and the rear cargo area being filled as an ATX-801F is 75 lbs empty and about twice that when filled with four heavy heatsinks, 15 3.5" disks and redundant kilowatt PSUs.