There's also an Eco Mode, but whatever fuel economy gains that gives you are negligible. It may just be a giant troll by Ralph Gilles' team, one that sounds a big alarm at SRT headquarters so everyone there can laugh you for even trying Eco Mode in a Hellcat, like some rube.

Is the Getrag that much more superior of a transmission? At 7k you can get some very fancy custom gear sets built and drop into a more pedestrian rebuilt box.

Ferrari and several others use a prefill method to take up any gap before you apply the brakes. Running clearances are only around 80 microns or 0.003" but it does a huge amount for pedal feel.

What's with the wing? He is not going nearly fast enough and then what's the point of downforce? This whole car is dumb.

I'm not a graphics design person but looking at the pattern it's quite complex, I'll see what they say. There could be an easy program to write using the few different shapes to make a unique but similar pattern.

I don't think I'd wrap the whole car, maybe just lower 1/2 door stripes. My WRX is silver so I'd maybe want…

I really want this camo pattern on vinyl. I already contacted my local graphics shop.

There should totally be a Jalopnik tent at Sno*Drift, I'll bring the Fireball.

The exhaust note is atrocious.

Have you seen the car in person in Detroit? If not you don't have much room to speak. Photos of cars like this never do them justice.

The GTI had upgraded bilstein sports and H&R sport springs. No means a race set up but fairly sporty for the street. I was running a ~200 tread wear summer performance tire, so reasonably sticky but not full race slicks.

I ran a set of mostly worn out slicks on the scirocco lemons car but they were so dead the braking…

Tiff had great fun driving it. It's not all about lap times.

You need to keep the stock low grip rubber on them. When you put super stickies on 4 corners it throws off the whole balance of power to chassis performance.

I had the same issues on my mk3 2.slo GTI. It was great with average rubber, with stickies it had better lap times but was way less entertaining to drive on the…

What's your plan when you get stuck with a flat battery 1/2 way through your canyon run?

But those Glickenhaus cars are not fully road tested, NVH scrutinized , fancy pants, don't want my old R8 being seen at the country club refined. There is so much that goes into a car besides building a chassis and developing an engine.

Building a race car and getting a (last gen) super car into production are totally different things.
Glickenhaus does awesome work, but you can't use him as a benchmark for the NSX program development.

As far as I could tell it was bone stock, maybe it had some summer-ish performance tires but that's about it.

I was running my fully track prepped 115 hp ABA swapped Lemons Scirocco, full cage, sticky Kuhmos ect. This guy in a late 90's beige mobile V6 manual Camry kept blowing my doors off every lap. I was quicker in the corners but I could never catch him in the passing zones on the straights.

You miss the whole point. You're in traffic in a manual Wrangler. The first gear 2Hi idle is too fast for the flow of traffic, you need to keep clutching in and out which is annoying as hell. You stop, put the truck in 4lo (because you don't have a 2lo, the 4WD is not important here) and idle along in 3rd or 2rd gear.…

This is the deal of the year right here.

This strikes me as more in the PreRunner style, not the Wrangler get stuck on rocks crawl through the mud kind of vehicle. Would it be useful in the real world? Absolutely. However it kinda conflicts the the design ethos of the truck. Remember they are selling you a feeling not a truck at the auto show.