Aside from your hardcore combustion engineers, the design skillset is extremely similar. You’ve got bearings, heat management, stiffness, NVH. It’s really not that different.

Win.

High revving NA V8s are pretty out of the ordinary these days. Ford is just bringing it to the masses, kudos to them.

I mean, a 7500 rpm V8 that is knocking on 100 hp/l, is smooth and refined, etc is pretty damn exotic as far as affordable performance cars go.

Part of the problem is that NHTSA has to justify themselves to a certain extent. What’s the point of the regulatory body if they aren’t updating the regulations?

Agreed, but there’s other takeaways here. These types of cars prove you don’t need to built the fastest better-est most powerful-est sports car. GM could learn a lot from this.

The problem with the Camaro is right there in the comment: it’s a brilliant track car.

Damn, I need a raise.

So far the main advantage to sodium is safety, which is no small thing I’ll admit, but in real world situations they’re a step back. The cost is lower, but not much lower due to the fact that you need more cells to reach the same storage capacity.

I am involved in battery tech, and what you’re saying is a big assumption. Really big.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Use a cell phone from 2003 and compare it to now, that’s 20 years progress.

He made some mistakes with his choice of setup, the car ended up pretty heavy and had way too much spring rate.

Fox bodies are crap. Spending thousands to make it a little less crap is the definition of insanity.

Autonomous vehicles will happen because the first company to crack it will make absurd amounts of money. Will it happen in 5 years? Doubtful. 10? Probably still a long shot. 20? I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

The one kink in the argument of “as they become more common they’ll become cheaper” is that we’ve been making lithium batteries in gigantic quantities for electronics for awhile now. While the cooling part of the EV battery could get cheaper, I doubt the actual cells will come down much. You’re talking a limited…

Really just needed a manual, the V6 was plenty powerful for what it was at the time.

Agreed. Why there wasn’t a K20 powered “type-r” version is beyond me.

For those pulling the “but ICE cars do this with the gas gauge!” argument, I don’t have to look hard to find a gas station.

I think that’s been true for a long, long time. It puzzles me because poaching people works, and GM are large enough to absorb that cost easily. The real problem for them would be getting out of the way and letting a good designer actually do their job.

In retrospect, Ford should have raised the ride height and made it more “off road” looking. It would have made it a worse vehicle, but people are dumb.