C&D says they got the 570S to 60 in 2.7.  At 560 hp and <3200, low 3s seems pretty plausible, with those last couple tenths being execution (suspension/launch/grip/conditions).

I’m not arguing where its absolute 0-60 will be (don’t see how anyone could at this point), I’m saying the variance between perfect launch and day to day will be smaller with the engine out back and an 8 speed DCT.  IE the average Joe will be able to get much closer to the idealized number.

Here’s how:  make the strip translucent with a light inside.  So by day it’s a dumb-tech marker, and at night you can have it glow slightly.  If the LED burns out you still have your tape stripe.

Wouldn’t the women who weigh as much as men (or as much as men used to) be covered by the male dummy test?  Or are they asking for a woman-height, male-weight dummy in addition?

Where do you put the “income bracket for a Ferrari” line? Because I’m around the “could buy a Ferrari” cohort (I know not quite the same, but still), and putting the Corvette’s engine in back while keeping it under 60k has all of my attention.

Maybe not, but there also won’t be a full second gap between optimum conditions and day to day. Mid-engine + 8 speed auto + launch control will mean pretty tight consistency.

A couple years back I did a comparison of the 911's and Corvette’s footprints, and they were almost identical in all dimensions. Like within an inch, including for length and width (long Corvette hood offset by deceptively long 911 rear).

And some of the non-most-folks still want a big (/FI medium) engine in a small car, instead of a small engine in a big car.

I’m just getting to the point where a car like that could be in the cards. But the car upsize / engine downsize trend has left little in the way of big (or at least FI medium) engines in small cars. RS3, 235xi, ATS-V type deals...ideally <3500 lbs and with an FI 6 good for 400+ horsepower.  You can’t tell me the only…

Alternate take: size of a 5-Series with a weak 4-banger is pretty much the opposite of what I want, which is 3-Series sizing with a TT V6.

I would’ve.  Nobody who says “mid-engine” means “still up front, just not hanging way out there”.  They mean in the back.  Just not hanging way out there.

“It’s already mid-engine!  Front-mid!”

How is “STEM funding” cut?  Most of our major city school systems are operating at record budgets, even when losing student count, because their increases are on autopilot.

Nobody wants to drive an Ioniq.  The average car is a Camry, which gets like 2 mpg fewer than the average SUV which is a RAV4.  Most SUVs are just 5-doors on stilts.

Come on now, buyer demographics aside, do you really want to feel the clutch slipping against 4700 pounds of heft constantly?  I’d rather them focus on manuals in the RS3, S4, and RS4 (preferably with a couple hundred pounds taken out of the latter).

Most superchargers, ie positive displacement / roots style, aren’t anything like turbos, so I wouldn’t say a centrifugal is similar because of the name. There are probably many more people who’ve seen/experienced roots blowers and turbos, but never a centrifugal kit.

Someone who doesn’t know the naming history but does see how they function is likely to focus on the boost production side, where a centrifugal supercharger is just like a turbo, so adding “belt-driven” as a qualifier is pretty reasonable.

Understood, I’m saying “belt-driven turbocharger”, correct or not, is a consistent description for someone who doesn’t know the naming history but recognizes their similarity to actual turbos

I’ll happily accept “belt-driven turbocharger” as an alternative name for a centrifugal supercharger, since their design and behavior is more like a turbocharger (nonlinear response vs. a positive displacement SC).

I’m not talking about a mileage contest, that interests me as little as those one-wheel-drive solar car squeaking along. I’m saying a racing series whose fundamental power limiter is fuel (and a few other points like boundaries for the wheels, passenger space), but no ridiculous engine/transmission formula, body…