Hackers had a better soundtrack, too. Then again, the Italian Job remake had more Charlize Theron...

Turbo Coupe or GTFAC

I laughed and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

Watch the video. It’ll all become clear.

This guy. I’m judging him.

I wish the Jalopnik staff cared half as much as you about the integrity of their posts. Thanks for doing their jobs for us!

It’s largely for noise. I know that there are sound deadening materials that are smooth, but they are likely more expensive than carpet and will also never kill the high frequency noise like a fibrous material can. That’s why most new cars have fibrous underbody shields now. Crawl under a new Camaro and you’ll see the…

Yes! I never knew about the tanks getting stuck on the beach. Learned something new!

I’d like to see one of these steel-wheeled, low-powered, high-ground-loading monsters cross some wet grass, let alone a trench. You need tracks to make really heavy things go off road, and tracks need a lot of power. WW1 tanks had a lot of power (for the day) and used comparatively wide tracks to do what they did...…

I am intimately familiar with PIV. In fact, my first test with it was likely the largest PIV region of interest ever attempted. See the pics of the full-scale rotor test below. Smoke wands are never used for PIV because the seed is not uniform. We seed the entire circuit. The wand is of zero scientific use.

The smoke wand isn’t for data, it’s just for the video. The scientific data all comes from the balance and any other instrumentation that may be on the car.

I’m going to assume you’re not a wind tunnel guy...

This is the Aerodyne A2 tunnel, which I seriously doubt can give meaningfully accurate aero numbers for a full-scale car. It’s way too small and has distributed floor suction, which never works right with diffuser cars.

1,000 hp = Meh.

Same as last time: This isn’t an unheard of operation, as long as you’re near sea level.

I’ve been inside a few LAs over the years and never liked them. They’re heavy as shit and I’ve never been impressed with the chambers. Or the stock port shapes, to be honest. Or the stock intake manifolds. Any of them. But by far, the worst part is the weight. They actually remind me of the old Buick Nailhead or the…

Agreed. People forget that old trucks weren’t the car-like $60,000 cruisers they are today. And you’re absolutely right, they only get worse after decades of deferred maintenance!

I never really understood why GM did that. It must have been on purpose if they kept the strategy into the GMT800. Maybe they thought it would be easier to modulate with work boots?

I 100% agree. Nothing that can’t be fixed by someone with a set of wrenches and a jack! I read an article years ago about putting Ford Super Duty brakes on a GMT400 and that allegedly made a world of difference, plus you could buy wear parts at any auto store.