Do these magazines inflate their HP and torque

jerry6 said
Do these magazines inflate their HP and torque

YES

I wish I could have saved it.

Years ago, about '71-74, in one of the popular mags, "Hot Rod", "Popular Hot Rodding", "Car Craft," etc WAYYYYYyyyyyyyyy in the back of one mag, "they had been caught" by somebody

So there's a little square box, looked like an ad, "disclaimer"

Went on about "sometimes we test a car and we thing the driver, the weather, the mojo, the stock marketer, yadayada, gives us times and numbers and "we think" the car should "have done better." So we "factor" the numbers.

I WISH dearly I had saved this and framed it. It's something you won't see in these magazines very darn often.