If you’re running a fleet that you replace every 3-4 years, then diesels longevity and fuel economy advantages become irrelevant and the gasoline engine simply costs less. However if I was a long term fleet operator, diesel is the way to go.

I don’t think so, as most FE cars use a single motor that’s then split by a differential, rather than 1 motor connected to each wheel. This is done for weight and weight distribution reasons, as a single larger motor and gear reduction + differential is lighter than 2 smaller motors and gear reductions. Also, since…

If I’m not mistaken, the IDR is a Pikes Peak car, so I would think it would have plenty of cooling capacity available. However, they seemed to have geared the car wayyy towards acceleration rather than top speed. 

Most of Nürburgring’s long straights are actually pretty steeply uphill (an exception being the one after the first complex of corners), so a drop in 20-30 kph isn’t too unreasonable. It seems like they geared the car heavily towards acceleration, as the average speed was something like 200 kph. 

The Honda system takes up almost as much space as a console shifter though

1. I believe it was mostly just ths cost coming down and mass producing such large units became viable. It could possibly also be that it’s the next sexiest thing to market.

Isn’t this almost like a modern day Indian Autozam, that isn’t bounded by kei car regulations?

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I think there might be a (relatively) significant difference in cooling setups between engine suppliers. I think at Talladega one year, 4/5 engine failures were of the same manufacturer's overheating engines. Other than that, I think the only other plausible difference would be driveability; one supplier could be…

Could also be an anti bug splat device.

dat GT4 Photo Mode tho

The engine cover would supposedly flex below the minimum height slightly at high speeds, producing less drag. They changed them out before qualifying for fear of an FIA raid and disqualification.

The driver was being told by race control to go as fast as possible.

This generation has the 2.3 EcoBoost. It is seems to be much better than 2.0.

It was a last minute project, and it was mid-rear pack for LMP2.

Well the Takeri Concept and the Mazda 6 were pretty much identical on the exterior, and if anything, the production version looks better.

VW W12 Nardo:

Because minuscule privateer teams were the only people they could find to beat.