If this has an Atkinson cycle engine like the old one, which I bet is the case, then 13:1 is not that extreme.
MechaMike
harkptooie
Needs to reach 311 mph.
*pounces RPN HP*
He does a lot of scatological humor, but I appreciate his existence anyway.
My dad had three Fiat 128 in various states of decay - and a VW Bus, in which we did annual travels from Sweden to Greece and back. Slept in it on beaches, zig-zagged through Europe. It frequently broke down and let us experience small German towns and their repair shops a lot.
I quote swedish comic writer and cultural gemstone Joakim Lindengren:
“Torque to mass ratio”
I have always wondered how much effect the gyroscopic inertia has on a car.
Well, it definitely has je ne sais quoi...
Best V8 sound I ever had was when I had tightened the exhaust valve a bit too much on cyl #1 on my Camaro.
All of electricity flips off then comes on again, fraction of a second later.
Do they not use public-key encryption of a unique code that changes all the time via handshaking, yadda yadda technobabble?
Oh but SciFi is a smörgåsbord of imaginative futuristic vehicle sounds - just pick one. Tie Fighter?
Slow cars are perhaps not outright dangerous, but stressful. They force you to do committed and strained sprints to meld into normal traffic, especially on the highway.
Technically, they are correct in that 59 999.999... is “below 60k”.
Aston Martin Vociferous
Not me but I rode shotgun and my buddy Pete was driving, back in 1989 or so.
Not a motor sport, but I want to se carting.
I was going to comment about the math, but then I realized that like e/π of my posts here begin with “As an engineer...” and that is grating.