Agreed. There is a very big difference between a 2+2 coupe and a proper 4-door in nearly all cases.

Tell that to this guy. https://www.insideedition.com/12832-after-car-fanatic-dies-in-corvette-how-to-escape-a-locked-vehicle

There is a lot of confusion in the comments about what is actually novel here - no one is coming for your paper based manual in the glovebox.

Broadly agree, but I think you could have a smaller version of the print one.

I don’t think so, but I’m sure VTEC would fix it

Appealing to Japanese comic books to normalize your fetish probably is not going to work...

Anything other than the Aston Martin DB-9 setup. They put like a door mount, but they are on the interior side, exactly thigh high. So you leg rubs on the button, pushing the seat forward, pushing your leg forward, pushing the button forward, ...

I guess it is a matter of perspective, to a 3000 lb car it looks a bit fluffy, but either way, you aren’t getting out of that interaction without a bunch of scratches and holes poked into you.

I see the “chill pill” in your profile pic is meant to be ironic. You clearly don’t know what sealioning means. Good job with the baseless ad hominem attacks.

This is a good point. (Cayenne Turbo owner here). I don’t even like the fastback “coupe” version of these vehicles, you’re just giving up functionality for some go-fast styling.

This.

US ones are a bit better:

But we already know from his calculations that the thrust from the drive train is stronger than the thrust needed from the jets. So the first part of your scenario is unlikely. (remember that we are only accelerating 0-60, so it’s not like the car motor is topping out , that would be a concern for drag)

Yeah, it’s kind of tricky, right? I’m only giving the author a bit of a hard time because he engineered / physics’d the hell out of the thrust calculations, but then kind of threw in that misunderstanding about grip at the end.  

Because the rockets are only providing somewhat less than half of the force. If you take the motors/tires out of the equation, you more than double all the problems he’s discussing.

Interesting point, but I don’t see why it would draw any more air over the car than when it normally goes 0-60.  Some sort of hypothetical venturi?  That’d be a really small effect, especially if all the rockets are on the back of the car.

I’m genuinely curious, in what scenario does pushing on the back of a car hurt its traction (grip)?

But why would the thrusters cause the grip of the tire to be exceeded, any more so than using no thrusters?

Yeah, I was going to mention using the thrusters to improve downforce, but I think it is fair to assume the thrusters would be at relatively balanced.  We don’t see rockets doing loops that often.

I understand your thrust calculations, those made sense to me.