You are aware that Kia was a separate company up until the ‘97 East Asian financial crisis, and is technically independent with Hyundai only owning about 1/3 of the company, and that Genesis has been in the making for over a decade (assuming one takes the original Equus as the starting point), and that this “Drive…
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How exactly are they terrible right now? The current Spark is better than it had any right to be, the Sonic is generally acknowledged to be 3rd in its class after the Fit and Fiesta (not bad in what’s becoming a fairly competitive field), the Cruze made up for the Cobalt (never mind previous Cavaliers), and the Encore…
No, but I don't see anywhere in either the original post nor the comment that started this thread where someone said "Chrysler is a hero for its wartime contributions". "Not wartime profiteering" and "A hero" don't equivocate, and the fact that they did in your mind suggested, to me, that your expectations of private…
Their motivations are irrelevant because they did what they did because of what they are. If Chrysler was acting in self-interest, big whoop—that’s why privately-owned, profit-seeking enterprises do what they do. If the U.S. commandeered their operations in order to defend against an external threat, again, big…
Their motivations are hardly relevant. It wouldn’t be a surprise for a private company to act in self-interested, profit-motivated ways, just as it wouldn’t be a surprise for the 1940’s U.S. government to order a company to produce the goods necessary for wartime operations regardless of the effect doing so would have…
I've never heard someone pronounce the word "gas" that way.
Well, if you look at current Daewoo's products as being most global small-model Chevrolets, then they're really not so bad at all.
At least the Viper is mechanically interesting. At this point, it’s using what is essentially a bespoke pushrod V10, which is unique in the performance car market.
I wonder if this has any mechanical relation to the SsangYong Tivoli? It'd make sense for them to amortize platform development cost by sharing, but I don't know if the Tivoli can be produced cheaply enough to hit this price point...or size-point. Just wondering.
Not to mention that even if we did, we'd still be tackling less than half of our problem. CO2 emissions come overwhelmingly from power generation, even from somewhere as wealthy and auto-dependent as the U.S. Ban coal, and do our best to help China and India do the same.
Totally agree, but numbers appeal to people for ego-based masturbatory purposes, and Genesis could use that kind of appeal. If there's one thing that I think people can fairly doubt Hyundai on, it's their ultimate engineering prowess, and stuffing a bunch of engines into their new luxury brand that don't match the…
...But that’s obviously the current Hyundai Genesis (future Genesis G80[?])
So, whence cometh the mid-engine, V12, many-turbo'd supercar?
Incorrect. That’s the previous generation. Picture pulled from a Brazilian website:
This is a competitor to the 7-Series, not the 5. It may not look so bad against BMW, but Cadillac’s getting 400hp out of the new twin-turbo 3L V6 in the CT6, and Ford does up to what, 425 (?), out of the 3.5 Ecoboost. Lexus and Ford both get more horse power and torque out of their 5L V8’s. It just seems to me like a…
Props for what appears to be deep navy-colored leather, but I'd love to see a bit more of the interior. The exterior should've been more dramatic, the tech features need to be globally available otherwise kind of what's the point, and the engines (311hp 3.8L V6, 370hp 3.3L turbo V6, 420hp 5L V8) are more than a bit of…
I think they meant to emphasis that it wasn't just two V8's joined together a la Cizeta and some others (I think).
They are indeed much less efficient, but because consumers are stupid and lazy, the whole “quicker refueling” thing kind of trumps all else.
To my ears, for cylinder counts, 10>12>6>5>3>8>4. But I'm weird.