But most of the classics don’t get registered that way. States have pretty strict laws about use of classic plated vehicles and general use insurance is a pain with them. Most people around Detroit have them registered as normal vehicles. Laws on one side or the other would need to change.

No, most the TDIclub guys either blame VW directly or simply don’t care as they’re running tunes anyway.

If you want to mandate federal vehicle inspections you’re going to remove a lot of classics from the road with the stanced cars. There is a big political reason places like Michigan don’t have these inspections.

Yeah, Tesla just slaps shit together. They can’t be bothered with any research, right?

And what else out preforms it?

You’ve got this all seriously confused.

Why would a more thermodynamically efficient engine use more energy per horsepower? The whole point of the turbocharger is that you’re recovering wasted energy and making the engine more efficient. If I can make the same torque (derived into horsepower) at a lower RPM I’m going…

With a modern car it’s very very hard to stay out of boost. It’s not like driving my WRX. To figure it out on the 1 liter I actually had to keep the boost gauge running via my Torque app to learn what it was doing.

You realize you new car is probably significantly more powerful than your old car right? That’s a big part of it. The DI then DI plus turbo motors make diesel torque with a free reving nature.

Talk to Montune, the 165 hp tune they have for the euro cars is phenomenal but they’ve had very little interest in the US. I guess the ECU is different enough that it’s not trivial to port over.

I wish more people knew, it would be a tuners darling.

It’s a show for car guys. This is what car guys on a limited budget build (440 not Hellcat). I’m not blowing my LSD money so I can have a slick paint job. I need to cut a hole in the hood for my blower next year anyway.

Well now that Dodge has skin in the game it’s going to get sanitized. They don’t want the public to see their sponsored vehicle on the side of the road with a blown coolant line or fuel leak.

The turbo engines are just fine, you just need to look at your driving style. 1/4 throttle in an old V6 may be 70 lb-ft where as 1/4 throttle in a DI turbo I4 may be 120+ lb-ft. You don’t realize how much faster you’re accelerating because you’re driving the same way in a new quiet car.

I have a Fiesta 1 liter. If I…

That’s the original idea of rad rod, not the modern perfectly simulated 36 1/4 years of rust in the 7000 block of Hollywood with brand new everything under the skin.

They’re supposed to be cars you repair just enough so they most likely will not catch fire then run the piss out of it.

My ‘79 rabbit with the sweet 1.5 liter diesel made the run from 0-60 in around 14 seconds. It’s slow by today’s standards but at the time it was not that bad. My W115 300D on the other hand is around 22 seconds...that one takes a bit of planning and a captains licence.

1982 called and wants it’s diesel joke back.

Eh, even your modern daily driver can withstand 2-4x the weight of the vehicle on the roof. They’re designed to survive a roll at speed.

All the cars (worldwide) came with programming to cycle beat, not just specific test vehicles.

You expect much else from a Germanic diesel enthusiast?

Compu knows his shit, he has been deep into TDI’s (he ran a shop) and deep into TDI culture for 10 years. I think you missed the tongue and cheek aspect.

Not even Ford can violate Hooke’s Law. Stress and strain are always proportional within the elastic limit.