In its intended purposes power and torque matter a whole lot for a racecar, even for drifting. And if you build the rest of a car to handle it and know what you’re doing behind the wheel, more HP is never a bad thing even if it becomes increasingly insane. You make as much as you legally and reliably can or you just…

Does it really matter if it’s got older tech or not? Though apparently this example was converted to fuel injection, it’s not like the original carbureted engine wouldn’t have out-performed the stock V10 in every possible way aside from fuel consumption and emissions which matter not to a drift car. Also, it’s worth…

You could technically say the engine is the “soul” of any car, or maybe the idea of cars having souls at all is totally bollocks. It’s certainly the heart and muscles, if we’re sticking with anthromorphizing machines. Just because the LFA is a $400,000 supercar and has a really nice sounding engine doesn’t mean it’s…

It’s basically got the equivalent of 4 rally car engines strapped together (4 x turbo I4 = quad turbo W16), has AWD, and even the ability to raise and lower the suspension a bit. I kid, and I wouldn’t want to see one needlessly trashed either. But it’s not a one-off, and it’s more likely a Veyron would die from being…

Yup, I also think port injection has benefits at certain rpm and load conditions over direct, but lacking the precise dispersion and metering characteristics that make direct injection better from an overall performance and efficiency standpoint.

I dunno, I find this massively cooler than the i8 that the automotive press masturbates over.

Dubai spec

I don’t get why everyone is surprised a 90’s supercar is more “analog” and has less complicated technology than a 2000s/2010s one. The F1 was pretty damn high tech and advanced for its time, just because it has a manual transmission, no turbos, hybrid, or the driver’s aids that we’ve come to expect nowadays doesn’t…

Subreddits are very much self governed by their own moderators and rules, which is good for diversity and freedom of speech (pretty much anyone can create or mod a sub) but bad because barring much universal regulation they can get away with pretty much anything. A lot of stuff isn't really driven by actual people's…

We would have seen maybe a whiff of tire smoke if any of the wheels locked, like the commentators said it looks like the driver just misjudged the corner and turned way too fast and early.

Maybe all the posing is what pissed off the lion.

If the zoom was that good why did he let it get so close? He could have taken the picture from far away.

Both reddit and 4chan are incredibly diverse. The people who frequent one particular subreddit (especially not a default one) might have nothing to do at all with the people who go on another. There are some awful subreddits out there, but most people would never even hear of them unless they stumbled on a link to it.…

It's a big cat, so let it rip you apart and play with your intestines like string.

I think we should make an international *Holi*day dedicated to F1 cars doing burnouts through colored powder.

If we assume we're the only planet with sentient life in our solar system (or the capacity for such), and humans are the only species worth a damn, then I guess #12 is on point, but it seems kind of selfish. It would be like saying a kingdom and all of its land and people becomes meaningless if the royal family (the…

It doesn’t matter all that much really. If a 2 liter turbo is in something small and aerodynamic, it wouldn’t have that much load and could cruise on the highway without using any boost if the gearing is correct. In most applications where a 2 liter turbo is replacing a V6, it’s in a heavier and bigger car meaning the…

I think you missed the point of that “race”. He just wanted to demostrate the amount of lag the 400hp version of the Evo had, in a silly test that effectively got the point across rather than droning on about boost thresholds and throttle delay times to the millisecond. How is that being too lazy to downshift when it…

They probably don't have to capture all of the light energy emitted, just enough to sustain their civilization and have a lot of reserve, which would probably be an insignificant fraction of the star's output energy, perhaps even for a white dwarf. The only reason to completely envelop the star would be if they were…

The adventures of Monkey, Hamster, and Captain Slow. I suppose it could work