Yeah, I don’t think drift mode actually sends 576 HP to the rear motor only. You can overdrive electric motors above their power rating briefly, but you risk exceeding the thermal limits of their armature and blow them apart. A drift mode can be used for more than a few instants, so no way Kia would risk destroying…
Wow, that’s one of the most utterly horrid things I’ve ever seen on this site.
Oh, I was completely smitten by it, but it was clear the turbine engine was never going to make it. With a regular V8, it would have been a perfect answer from Jaguar to Italian exotica. Was even more impressed when I saw Jay Leno happily drive one around, showing how well-sorted it was...
Yeah, truly a pity they did not pursue it or something like it further. Watching Jay Leno’s review of the 1930 Cadillac V16 yesterday reminded me that Cadillac was really the “standard of the world” in those earlier automotive days. Everything in it is exquisite, from state-of-the-art engineering to impeccable quality…
It’s a good looking car, but its unresponsive 3-speed slushbox coupled with anemic engines makes the driving experience on these a very uninspired affair, unfortunately. Still not as uninspired and vomit-inducing as that picture of Musk...
If they can’t afford a pedestrian foot bridge or underground crossing near one of the most touristic areas of Chicago, which are the obvious solutions, just use red-light cameras (with a big flashing warning that they are enforced) and speed bumps in the approach to all 3 prongs of the intersection.
What a stupid country, reversing hard-earned freedoms so that a bunch of fanatical white people can live in what they perceived as a paradise 50-70 years ago...
For me, the first one with it was a Renault Mégane from the late 90s. I guess people just don't know the feature exists or perhaps it's limited to Jalopnik writers?...
Plus some ugly SUV with an ugly name that the plebs can buy in droves to sustain development and production of the cars that really matter...
Now that you mentioned it, indeed there was an 1/2 mile+-long walk from my international arrival gate to customs, and even though the moving sidewalks were there, they were all stopped. And none of them were under repair, so it made me think that it must have been a cost-cutting measure, where they save some $100k in…
I just had a 3h layover at EWR and the services there just keep getting worse and worse. 80-90% of the food you can order in the iPad-only food-ordering system menus is the same no matter where you seat or which restaurant you go to.