As someone who’s driven the FR-S for eight years now, I can tell you you don’t need to “rev the nuts off it to make progress”. I’ve never had a problem passing someone on the highway (in sixth gear even). If I’m making a pass on a two lane country road, I’ll downshift to fifth to get it done more quickly, but under…
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Honestly those complaining they need more livable everyday torque should just buy an electric if low-speed torque is their need. Please spare us another NA engine death. The NA+manual+RWD was going to be reduced to Miata plus some muscle cars until Subaru did their best Stallone impression and said “I didn’t hear no…
I don’t get it.
On a sporty car that isn’t my daily driver, fuel economy is a non issue and revving the engine is a positive, not a negative.
I like to believe there are some naturally aspiration fans out there besides myself, maybe even product planners at Toyota and Subaru.
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“I have a setup that clearly exceeds the limits of my derailleur, yet...
16s and 17s look fantastic on my R53 JCW. The 16s need a slight lowering to get rid of the wheel gap, but with the correct sidewall on the tire even 15s look good. I had 18" factory wheels on my last JCW, and it rode like crap. Some 17s can clear the JCW Brembos, as well as a few 16s. These 15s below (from the…
Funny, the last time I drove a Wrangler and and experienced its handling and braking “capability,” the last thing I thought it needed was more speed and power.
Ehm... the ones where the power completely overwhelms the handling capabilities of the vehicle; which was already a pretty low bar in the case of the Wrangler to begin with.
true, but I expect a 500hp jeep is going to wind up offroad whether or not the owner intends it to.
Oh dear god. I am now terrified you will kick off a twin snorkel craze. I really don’t want to see a dually bro-dozer with twin big-rig stacks, twin snorkels, and giant light bars hung between them.
Then try two snorkels, one on each side, haha. Mock em up like big rig stacks, throw some lights on em, sky’s the limit.
GONNA FUCK NATURE WITH MY BIG V8 DICK
I’m sure these will sell like hot cakes, but I can’t imagine the driving experience in the Wrangler is improved by adding more weight and this much power. I’ll cautiously be giving these a wide berth when I see them out on the street.
This is all annoying, for sure, but I can appreciate how car makers post sale costs keep increasing. The other option is likely for up front car prices to go up.
Companies finding new ways to exploit maximum profit from customers (to say nothing of denying potentially life-saving features if you can’t pay) has nothing to do with capitalism? Pretty sure that’s the textbook definition my dude.
I doubt many new USDM cars would dramatically fail EU emission standards. Where they would fail is in sales, even if you would ignore customer taste. USDM cars tend to have way worse absolute fuel economy and thus CO2 emissions. And thus will be taxed (and fined) so brutally, no one would buy them. They could still be…
The word “best” has no business being in this particular conversation.