I think you’re overselling the “space age material” that is plastic reinforced with unwoven strands of carbon fiber. Which believe it or not but the strength in carbon fiber comes from the weave, not just randomly assorted clippings. It’s like claiming the strength of chromoly steel but it’s actually just assorted…

For a bit I have had hopes of Chevy putting the ats-v engine in a truck, they make as much power as the Ecoboost in the raptor(450 hp). It seems like a massage waste to design such a powerful and torquey engine to only use it in a couple caddilacs and not a single other vehicle. The lf4 is really arguably the best…

They certainly aren’t high tech compared to f1, gt1, and lmp1. But everything but the fuel rig isn’t in Nascar and probably won’t be for a while. Another big one is proper aerodynamics on the V8 supercar. Really V8 supercar is all I would ever wish Nascar to be.

I Bet a flathead is even smaller. And I bet that a H1 V8 (V8 made from two Hayabusa engines) is smaller than the flathead.

Yea Ford is certainly the most advanced and closest to achiving the goal of 55 avg mpg. That said chevy has all of the technology but they just don’t use it. Arguably their lf4 engine in the caddies is better than the Ecoboost but it doesn’t get the exposure. The big three could easily compete but they mostly don’t.…

A 55mpg average would have been incredibly easy to do. A plug in hybrid counts as 100 mpg, and if you understand the math of averages then you’ll realize that all that needed to happen was to introduce a plug in hybrid to every platform that couldn’t make the cut.

Yes but cheetahs are the only big cat that aren’t ambush hunters, they run down their prey which is why they are such good runners. If that was a mountain lion the passengers would be in grave danger.

Im surprised that they don’t just mount the test engines on or around the tail fin. It would seem to make more sense to have the symmetry even, but I have no idea about any of this.

Can’t like this enough

How do so many licensed drivers no nothing about how Lanes in a road work in the comments. Only in a one way road does the terminology “3 lane road” mean 3 lanes all in the same direction. A 4 lane road has 2 Lanes on each direction. The word road means the whole road not just a direction or half a road. Makes me…

If it says 4 lane road it means 2 Lanes going each direction. I thought that was very basic terminology.

I say gm needs to really start putting the lf4 (twin turbo v6 in the ats-v that makes around LS3 power) in to more stuff. Ford has it’s Ecoboost v6 in quite a few things while gm keeps it’s rival to it only in caddies. I want to see it in vettes and trucks and maybe even a special track pack Camaro. Look at the Ford…

Does it have a assessable ob2 port and does it run a canbus system.

Does it have a assessable ob2 port and does it run a canbus system.

Twice the hp while you’re racing in the desert.

This is a load of bs from Toyota, they could easily make a 300hp gt86 while not gaining any weight at all. The answer would to partner with GM instead of Subaru. GM produces a 3.6l v6 called the lfx engine, it weighs less than the fa20 and makes 320hp with reasonable torque. The engine was first put in the v6 Camaro,…

There is certainly a reason why Ferdinand Porsche designed the Beetle the way he did. Now I’m not discounting front wheel drive cars because the classic Mini Cooper is just as much as a Icon and served the same purpose. If the Beetle was originally designed front wheel drive it wouldn’t be what it’s known as now. All…

I feel that VW could bring back diesel as a range extender, the biggest drawback with electric cars is the range. VW has made a plentiful amount of hybrids throughout the corporation. Also they might have a easier time making a diesel for just power generation. Mazda have even teased the idea of using a rotary engine…

At least the 911 still has the engine in the right place. I think changing engine placement and the wheels driven is much more different than bloating a massive amount while at the same time becoming much faster and safer with the same basic design.

I feel like a Ford Ecoboost would be nice in a Morgan. Especially since it’s a mass produced engine, and that Ford has already been making them for a decent amount of time.