Why not? The more, the merrier.

Still not interested in Indycar, mostly because it doesn't seem safe to race in skins. Get Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso in on this with Helio Castroneves, and we'd have a subject of interest.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for that reference.

Hey! Look at me! I'm a rising beltline!! / . Waiting for the day when this idiotic and genuinely dangerous styling trend reaches its apex, so we can all reflect on the shame and stupidity.

Yeah, that's always been one aspect of this car they seem to have no idea what to do with. I guess we should appreciate the simplicity?

I don't think I said it was an advanced engine. In fact, I'm sure I didn't. And in what way BMW is now going above and beyond "the followers", I'm not sure. Tuned versions of not-particularly-special mass-production engines is hardly a new thing, and at this point, that's all that BMW (and Audi, it must be said) is…

That's what's so fascinating to me. The 4.2 is really just a newer version of a fairly old engine, one which has been employed in a lot of Audi vehicles—the first and second gen Audi A6 V8, the first Audi RS4, the Audi S5 and RS5, the second gen Audi A8, and the Audi Q7 all had some version of the same engine. Despite…

Why not simply limit output (maybe in combination with aerodynamics)? Rev limits were hanging well into the teens for much of the past decade, so that's not necessarily a limiting factor. It seems like with that kind of limitation, and accepting the obvious penalty that various engine designs can have on weight and…

I'd hardly call 8400 way ahead of 8250. Also, frankly I prefer the Audi's sound, and Audi still makes their revvy crossplane, whereas BMW...does not.

Look for the Mitsubish FTO GPX. I miss the 90's.

Hell, it's less bonkers than 8,250rpm. The Audi R8 V8's engine is the highest-revving crossplane I know of, yet is undersquare, and I think it sounds far better than any other V8, especially the flatplane in the 458 Italia referenced in the article. That engine really does just sound like an I4.

Yeah, it is odd, or at least it would be if they weren't planning to import Corvettes in the low double digits.

Not to mention that plant designs have only barely been standardized, so everything is made like haute couture: slowly, individually, uniquely, and by a small handful of companies that have no incentive to invest in cost efficiency. I've read that there are some reactor vessel components that can only be produced by…

Thanks for articles like these; I always love to learn more about quirky, quietly-significant automobiles from the past. I'd ask how an electric-vacuum transmission works, but I barely understand how geared ones do. I must say, though, that while it looks great from the front and rear, it's got terrible proportions.…

In their defense about that, they don't say "SAE-certified" next to any of their output figures, and I think about half the reason they've derated newer engines (the Sonata 2.0t and Genesis 3.8) is because they're learning that kind of levity with the truth isn't tolerated by us vocal people.

...Uhm, no, this has nothing to do with how "overstyled" Hyundai's are. Hyundai's already begun toning down their styling language, and guess what? People are saying that they've become boring again.

I knew about the different bank angles, but I've never really been clear on how split pin crankshafts work. Know anywhere I could learn about them (or care to explain it yourself)? I'm really interested in this stuff. I also find it interesting that the LFA, with the higher redline of the two, is actually the less…

Considering how absurdly expensive a car like the LFA would be to develop, it's likely that selling them for anything less than a million would mean substantial losses, so why bother trying to recoup an investment that you simply aren't going to, particularly if it's going to somehow reduce the visibility of a halo…

Frankly, I don't know why it cost 400k, either. Unless the V10 was crazy expensive to produce, which I might believe, but nothing else was particularly avant garde on the car—the AMG-McLaren SLR was all carbon-fiber years earlier (and still cheaper then), and the transmission is a pretty unexotic single-clutch…

It is. Being 6'5", I usually have to duck to see out of airplane windows, but when I took a flight from Tokyo to Boston on a 787, I could actually see outside, which made the 14-hour flight much more bearable. And, of course, the electrochromic window dimming makes for some genuinely otherworldly views, day or night.