The engineering and production of McLaren’s road cars engines is outsourced to Riccardo, a contract engine shop much like Cosworth. The engines themselves are loosely based off a 10-15 year old Nissan racing engine. The only in house powertrain stuff McLaren do is on the hybrid and electric systems.
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Its like a retro futuristic Countach. I love it.
Sounds like all the preseason leaks were spot on. Stop reading here if you don’t want to know more (I don’t care about the plot and just enjoy the show for the action).
Sorry, should have clarified it sounds like the LT4 minus the supercharger whine. Its certainly possible they’ve managed to make a DOHC V8 sound like one but I’d expect the DOHC engine to rev higher and have a different sound at wot.
Sounds like an LT to me. There’s a lack of supercharger whine that has me thinking its a turbocharged LT.
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I’ve driven a current 991.1 Gt3 and on on a track, its transcendent because you’re always in the top end of the rev band. On the street, it feels a little flat because everything fun happens past 5000 rpm. There’s little to no midrange and my 991.1 GTS actually feels quicker because it produces more torque earlier. If…
What the motorcyclist did was needlessly reckless imo - the dude he was chasing could have pulled a gun on him or something. Much better to just give the cop the license plate.
Find any of the millions of videos of the sound of the car revving and you’ll get it. Its the closest you can get to a road going V10 F1 engine. I have no doubt this will be an insanely collectible car going forward.
I only do it on long (>4 hour) flights and I always turn around and ask the person behind me if they would mind if I did. I expect other people to do the same. I’m 6ft 3 and really hate it when somebody reclines all the way back, suddenly and without warning ... particularly when flying coach if I didn’t manage to get…
So? Its unfortunate that Uber’s management has got an uncommon concentration of grade A douchebags but that’s not going to stop me from taking their investor’s money when I get their too cheap rides. If you only did business with companies who’s management you liked you’d probably be living like you were in the 1700s.
What most people in the media don’t really seem to get is that the vast majority of riders only care about the plight of the drivers in a completely abstract sense. At the end of the day price wins all and most people aren’t going to pay extra for a service that feels like its trying to be “ethical”. This is doubly…
And after you empty the gun’s clip you can use the same glove to empty your own clip.
So you’re saying the Rockets doubled down on their postseason underperformance skills. Between Harden and Paul, they postseason disaster HOFers.
Surely there’s a Russian word for cocaine instead of crack.
I’d add connection time and ease. If you have a tight connection and need to change terminals, redo security or do immigration that’s a definite problem. I recently managed to make a 35 minute connection through Heathrow T5 (luckily the same gate complex) and I was only able to make it because I was business class and…
My problems with this episode were my problems with the series as a whole - just heightened because it feels like they’re moving in fast forward to tie things out. The Lannisters are way deeper, more interesting and ultimately superior characters to the Starks, Dany and all of the “good” guys (minus Arya). They’re…
Sadly they can do this as much as they want. Any Porsche GTx car will usually sell before it even hits a dealer. There’s way more demand than supply. That’s no excuse for being rude to a potential customer though.
Goes to show that McLaren have the chassis to fight near the front. They’ve been let down so badly by Honda this year that you can only see it at tracks like Hungary which aren’t power dependent. About the only positive thing I can say about it is that the engines don’t seem to blow up every 20 laps these days.