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Originally Posted by DGthe3
When an OEM like GM takes a car to the Nurburgring, they don't do it for bragging rights, at least not exclusively. Its done to tune the ride & handling of the car because there is no other single place in the world where they can gather as much data as they can at the 'ring. Sure they like to post the best time that they got, but thats not the real reason they spend all the money to fly cars & engineers out there.
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It's not the only reason, but in more than a few cases I'm willing to bet it is the reason they are conducting those tests there rather than using a couple of smaller tracks closer to 'home'. Ford is the perfect example. Previously they didn't make a lot of use of the Ring, but the upcoming 2013 GT500 is being tested there right now. My money says that the change of test track venue wasn't because of any mythical properties at the Ring. Rather, it was the fact that Ford typically does Euro testing on high end Mustang anyway which puts them in the vicinity with the right hardware, throw in the 'image' the Ring brings to the table and it's really, really cheap advertising that the media/internet largely does for you while you work sorting out the car.
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What method did Ford use to test the Boss 302 at the ring
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Ford didn't test the Boss at the Ring, as far as I am aware the new GT500 will be the first American market, Ford model heavily tested at the Ring.