New A45 with 400+hp and rear torque vectoring?

Has that been an issue for the EBs?  Aside from the torture test teardowns, there must be plenty with 250k+ miles at this point

Everybody commuting in one of these still wants to be able to put their foot down and move.  Especially if they’ve felt their buddy’s 3.5 Ecoboost spool up.

As a population, bike jockeys are capable of generating much less energy.  Plus they’re armored.  They have as much right to fight as hockey players IMHO.

Agreed, the world needs more fistfights not fewer.  Dudes are both basically wearing armor ffs

I expanded this thread specifically for a Goldeneye/N64 reference

I’m all for AWDing performance cars, not for snow but because we’re seeing power levels that launches and corner exits are traction limited.  At 155-181hp, that doesn’t apply.

They should add pictures of all the politicians pretending to do normal human things like cook food items and partake in beers.

Mazda really needs to revive the Ford partnership to get some decent engines. Imagine a Mazdaspeed 3 with AWD and Ecoboost 2.3.

You drove a 2.0T diesel with <150hp and <260lbs-ft.  Scale that by 2x displacement, 2.5x torque, and 3x power.

Slam an X3456M to the ground and don’t you just have a high-performance wagon like everyone claims to want?

The Skyactiv engines have a lot of gizmos but nothing to show for them. The 2.5 gets the mileage of a 2.0? Sweet, minimal marginal savings but we’re still stuck with 184hp.

If the ST got the 2.3T, the RS should get the 2.7TT.

A shame Mazda and Ford aren’t still tied up. Mazda has great styling and dynamics but no money for a modern engine, and there’s an Ecoboost for every potential Mazdaspeed model from Miata to 6.

Would you actually put money on it?

There was the girl who had a heart attack, and a helicopter filming things crashed.

Agreed, I can’t think of a better way to force a big chunk of the middle toward extreme poles than declaring everyone who disagrees with you Litrully Hitlur.

The three deaths were a heart attack in someone who was beyond morbidly obese, and a helicopter crash.  As sensational as the media made it, it wasn’t “blood in the streets”.

Sure, in steam engines.  OHV was developed in the 1890s-1900s, so the “dinosaur” argument is basically:  my 105 year old technology has been kept modern through decades of engineering, but your 120 year old tech is obsolete

Same here, I could see a couple scenarios: it’s shaped like a mini spoiler, and either provides level downforce, or perhaps downforce biased to the right of the car to balance the driver.