Anyone that commutes 300 miles a day should probably consider moving...

I’m not arguing that the CRF is more powerful than the WR. The WR is a more premium bike than the Honda, the fact that it makes more power isn’t a surprise. I’m just pointing out that the Honda makes 23 hp at the motor and the WR makes 28. The 25% price difference between the two isn’t a coincidence.

“Where the CBR makes 26bhp and 17lb/ft, the CRF lags behind on power (23bhp), but surprisingly, loses a pound-foot too.”

Ride it there? That’s the point. The highway just shouldn’t be the focal point of your trip. And real dirt bikes are limited in where they can legally go, even off road. At least that’s how it is in California.

Wes Siler dyno’d one at 23 hp. At those levels it makes a difference...

If you’re road tripping one of these on the freeway, you’re doing it wrong. It only needs to get you to the trailhead and back.

And also a 38% increase in horsepower and a 48% increase in torque, a unique frame and AWD/4x4 system but who’s keeping track? The Raptor is more expensive than the Tacoma, the argument is whether or not the price increase is justified. Most people think it is a better deal than the TRD Pro, even at the higher price.

The Torsen diff (which isn’t even available on the Taco) is a $500 a la carte option on the base Raptor. Meaning you can get a Raptor with the LSD up front for $50,020 MSRP. Also worth noting, the base SuperCab Raptor has more rear leg room than the Double Cab (four door) Tacoma.

Are we talking about the same truck? I posted a photo of the “torture test” Ecoboost race truck which is clearly not a production F150. Are you referring to this one? They’d have been better off using an engine swapped stock Raptor really, and I’m sure SCORE would have granted them an exemption like the FIA did for…

This is the first time Ford has put the Raptor in the stock class- in 2009, the “Raptor” was competing in Class 8, which is production based but anything from stock. The Ecoboost truck they ran a few years later was the same truck. The 2017 Raptor race truck is actually legitimately stock, bar the roll cage. It’s also…

What Jeep shows us:

A car doesn’t need a carbon fiber tub or a fixed roof to be good on a track. It helps, no denying that, but saying the C7 is somehow inherently flawed because of it is simply wrong. It performs as it’s designed to perform and has no problem keeping up with anything under seven figures.

You keep on hating, dude. It’s what you do best.

The car was designed to be a targa top. It’s entirely possible to make a car rigid without a fixed roof if you design it that way from the start.

Air to air heat exchangers are less efficient than air to liquid. If the C7 uses engine coolant, it’s because it works better. I have never heard of the base C7 overheating, I’ve never heard anything bad about it’s reliability actually.

That makes more sense than what LT was saying. I knew they shut down for the model changeover but thought I’d have heard something about GM stopping Z06 production. LTI is always railing against the Corvette, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if the blog he referenced was his own.

I’m not familiar with the base c7 overheating, does that include the Z71 cars? I’d think the oil cooler on the Z71 cars would address that issue. I haven’t heard of them overheating but I don’t read corvette forums.

The best soak issue is inherent to supercharged cars. It’s not a problem specific to the corvette, is only an issue because blowers and track cars aren’t usually put together. The other issues with that blog, well, it’s a blogspot blog run by a guy with a bone to pick. Every car has it’s issues.

5% is a pretty huge problem. If 5% of cars burst into flames, it would make the news. That failure rate on any single part would mean a recall. Heat soak might not be a “failure” but it’s a problem on a car that’s billed as a track day special.

Why would you pollute our waters like that?