DANGEROUS TRICKS!!!!
The fenders and hood are already aluminum.
Packaging. With the engine mounted sideways and driving the front wheels, manufactures can use more of the car for interior space and other such.
Your awesome.
Wouldn't worry me. I'd probably not be alive at that point.
Carrol Shelby enters AutoZone:
The reason that they have fake engine noises doesn't just have to to with exhaust note, it has to do with insulation. This is especially true for expensive cars like the M5 and M3/4. The engineers and designers want to keep road noise and wind noise out of the car as much as possible, and as a result, engine noise…
The correct answer is to have 1.0L EcoBoost powering the front wheels and another 1.0L EcoBoost powering the rear wheels.
Maybe that's the only way Lambo could be a rebel in this field. I mean, a Lamborghini should always be something different, and if everybody else starts doing insane, why not go in the opposite direction? It distinguishes the car from the pack, that's for sure.
The Cammer and the Coyote are far too dissimilar to consider them the same engine. From what I understand, the 5.0 Cammer is a sleeved 4.6L with 4 valve heads. The 5.0 Coyote has nothing in common with the 5.0 Cammer or the 4.6L. Even the bore and stroke are different between the two 5.0 engines.
The 5.0 shares a lot of similarities with the modular 4.6 upon which it was based. To quote Wikipedia (not the most authoritative source, but hey I'm lazy), "Ford engineers needed to design a V8, specifically for the Mustang GT, that would compete with the GM 6.2L LS3 used in the new Chevrolet Camaro, and the new…
A buddy of mine built this car: http://jalopnik.com/5819230/for-59… featured here before.