I cannot give this enough stars. Jalopnik is the true home of poor automotive design, neglected badge-engineered compromises, duct-tape fixes, soft Corinthian leather, captive imports, and NSU rotary engine swaps into Korean tractors.

Alfa? Mid-Eighties? Diesel?

Goal of GT cars is that they should be based on a formerly stock, purchasable car. Silhouette racers, Prototype racers, Formula cars, and other custom builts do have to meet such requirements.

Most places that’s what is done but the various GT series often feature a wide range of car and engine types. You have 4, 6, 8 and 10 cylinder engines both NA and turbo, front, rear and mid engined all running together. If you just had a displacement and weight rule, eventually all the cars would look the same like…

Jeep has this figured out, why doesn’t everyone else. Just give me a button to lock the stupid thing in AWD when I want to. It is soooo easy and solves all of the bitching about FWB based systems.

As an old school Audi fanboy - Audi pissed off those fans decades ago. Oh sure the R8 program begat some le mans fame, but Audi by and large has avoided all motorsport where it can use a proper quattro system since the old RS6 touring cars. Their product lineup is “generic german luxury cars and SUVs” with very few…

As a person with a Haldex all-wheel-drive, I definitely agree that it feels more like FWD+ than true AWD. A little disappointed but the negative performance aspects will not affect 98% of Audi buyers while the added efficiency “benefits” everyone.

I saw talk of this in audizine.com this morning.... thanks for the detailed explanation. Someone linked an interesting video showing a slo-mo shot of a Ford product with a similar system, and, sure enough, you can see the front wheels slip, and *then* the rear traction kicks in. So, more evidence of FWD bias. That’s…

That’s a beautiful picture, but I’m struggling to imagine the heat management in that compartment. During high speed runs the power consumed by water pumps and forced ventilation must be immense.

Pretty sweet engines non-the-less.

anything will handle well with that ride height and those front tires

I’m glad I’m not the only one semi-disappointed by this branding exercise.

The 48-foot, 2,700 horsepower, 185 MPH, MTI ZR48 is still my favorite car-themed boat. Mostly because catamarans are faster. And isn’t that what we’re all here for?

She already had her wine glass poured, he gave her flowers.

According to my wife the beard, boots and flannel makes me a lumberjack. The fact that I was a lumberjack to pay for college adds some credibility to that.

I remember when a beard and plaid shirt would get you called a lumberjack.

I hate that word.

Aaron just might drive up there and slap the shit out of you if you’re insinuating that he is a hipster.