There are only so many ratios that are possible because the teeth on gears have to be a certain size to handle the torque. There are plenty of ratios that would probably work better but because of the mechanical requirements to actually make that ratio it simply doesn’t fit in a reasonable package.
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It’s not necessarily geared for top speed. It is geared to go as fast as possible while also not bogging down when the engine kicks in at 30 mph. Remember, the engine is locked in from 30 mph all the way to 250, it goes through its entire rpm sweep in that span of time. It starts at maybe 1000 and goes up to whatever…
If this car or a new version of it enters a top speed war with the Chiron, Koenigsegg could probably just lower the final drive a bit, presuming it’s mechanically possible to get the desired number. Or they could simply raise the redline 50 rpm. The thing only takes 20-something seconds to get to 250 so you know damn…
I read it as Brooklyn being ever-richer than Manhattan. But it isn’t and never was. Probably should’ve used a verb instead of an adjective, as an adjective makes it seems like you’re referring to the previous noun.
There is not a single piece of “incredible” technology on this car. Literally everything has been done before. You can’t even claim that the tires are all that special because modified cars run 250+ mph with street tires, sometimes not even drag radials, at every event they go to. There’s nothing all that special…
Who exactly does China think will attack from from down there? Pretty sure Russia nor the US have any interest in warring with them any time soon.
What’s the likelihood that Ford gets back into making F1 engines?
No.
Ferrari is a big-money operation, as you know. And they’re good at building F1 cars so it’s fair to say they had plenty of time to finish the livery early. Remember that Brawn didn’t have squat for sponsorship for a while. *And* a really plain livery.
Actually this is a video reminder that dragging the brakes is *not* proper technique. A guy in boots driving through the woods =/= world’s best rally driver.
Bullshit. The reason Russia did that is to bolster its defenses against Middle East madness - they’re a helluva lot closer to it than we are and Ukraine was/is useless due to civil strife.
Actually, it’s easy to argue with. Because it looks like a Fiat, not a VW.
What was the thing my old teacher told me about rolling out of accelerated stalls in the Tomcat? I seem to remember him telling us that he was on the investigation team trying to figure out why so many Tomcats were being crashed due to stalls. If I remember right, they figured out that normal stall recover procedures…
INS and GPS? Right. There’s just as much propaganda on our side as there is theirs. The fact that Russia has gone out of their way to attempt to prove they didn’t fly through Turkey shows me that they actually didn’t and Turkey is full of shit. Turkey can be full of shit, they’ve got the US backing them. All of NATO…
Fuck it, that’s not our problem. They’re a sovereign nation. Just as I have no moral right to come barging into your house because you’re beating your wife, the US government has no moral right to go barging into another sovereign government because they’re doing something they don’t like.
Yes, the US government blatantly ignores that fact. They don’t care if a country is sovereign - if it isn’t a democracy, or some form of government that benefits the US, then the US will simply overturn what exists there and install a government that is on our side.
No shit? Turkey is also fighting against Kurds who are trying to fight ISIS.
Probably because Lotus realized they can save over $40 million by not having to rebuild a car every fucking race.
Pretty sure your headlights draw like 100x the amount of electricity as a 1.5 amp phone charger. Your stereo...300 watts? What about the air conditioner...that pulley draws about 20 horsepower off most engines, so much that if you’re in a slow car you can feel the enormous power draw and must use considerably more…