Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it also the case with extremely grippy tires that they can break loose quite suddenly once you exceed their limits? When securing a win in drag racing means holding these tires right on the ragged edge of adhesion, a sudden spike or interruption in torque and stability is totally…
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It’s like in Mario Kart, where you wanna keep drifting even on the straight parts to get the extra speed boosts.
Those are drag slicks, chances are they actually are around 285mm wide. Still those kinds of tires are usually capable of putting down way over 1000hp on a prepared drag slick, and would be vastly grippier than the standard 355mm road tires on the Viper.
People usually put skinny front tires on drag cars to cut down on the extra rolling resistance, as for the rears all I know is that there’s a pretty popular class of drag racing that limits tire width to 275 mm (way skinnier than the stock Viper tires) so I imagine 275mm drag slicks are very commonly used even outside…
That’s what I was thinking too. Actually, stock Viper rears are 355 mm, wider than anything short of a Veyron. Those tires didn’t even look like they were 300mm wide, but when it comes to straight line traction and with drag tires specifically it’s not the width of the contact patch (area of the tire touching the…
Electrons are negative, so that means the more electrons you stuff into a battery the lighter it gets. /scienced
That might be somewhat of a concern for the sedan, but the amount of people who would really take a 5400+lb SUV (even a fast, electric one) to the track lies somewhere between zilch and Doug DeMuro.
A 2 ton car is still 4400lb once an American sits in it.
That’s why I’ve got a V8 with cubic cylinders!
The Nazis aren’t even a relevant concern in this day and age, it’s been 70 years since they were defeated, the fact that a few people are still infatuated with some of their paraphanelia really amounts to nothing. Is he really trying to somehow bring back Nazism in 2016 and agrees with all of Hitler’s policies, or is…
All this stuff’s pretty much conglomorated into one site anyways, I go to Jalopnik, click a few links, and suddenly find myself in Jezebel wondering where all the car stuff went.
Who gives a fuck it’s got a little swastika on it? That’s still an incredibly sexy bike and it’s possible he was aiming at a sorta-retro WW2 theme.
And an E46 M3 went for more than twice the price, inflation adjusted. And would be thoroughly annhilated by this on a track.
Ford performance packs are pretty weak sauce though. A new Mustang GT with the track pack is slower and worse handling than both the last SS 1LE and the current regular SS (which is actually on par with a GT350). The Ecoboost performance pack pretty much only upgrades to a few stock GT parts, and I don’t think…
The Nissan was slow because its unreliability issues meant it was never properly working in the first place.
Build a reliable car, make it fast, then crash into an LMP1 car at Le Mans.
A new S2000 is coming next year. Trust me, I’m the ghost of Soichiro Honda.
Pretty impressive stability control that still works on half of a car.
There’s a reason every other car “hauls around” a multi-ratio gearbox of sorts. It allows high revs at low speeds and more torque multiplication, something impossible in the Regera. Stick an Agera in 1st gear at full throttle and you could be near the redline making 1000+hp around say 50-60 mph. And continue making…
Even with the electric motors it’s going to be making much less power at low speeds than an Agera though, not to mention it also weighs 500lb more too.