Yeah, it seemed Harris’ segment was kinda too quiet, and then I realized I had turned the volume down earlier to tone out Evans’ shouting.

It probably is a supercar by now, but “supercar killer” still feels like a more impactful term than “supercar”, even if it implies a mere overachieving sports car.

Malleability is different from fracture toughness and crack resistance, of which most aluminum alloys are probably rated lower than comparable steels. Malleability applies to how much and how easily you can shape or form it into sheets.

Ok, I’ll bite. What is this secret technique to spreading hard butter onto soft or crumbly bread? Best I can think of is to just cut thin slices and stick them on, but that isn’t exactly “spreading”.

Cold butter spreads so poorly, it’s usually better to just cut thin slices straight from the block and stick them on your toast/bready product. But the real reason cold butter lasts longer is that it isn’t worth the bother on plain old toast so you use margarine instead.

The Ford GT will be the best Canadian supercar ever made. I can live with that.

In this case S550 is being used as the internal chassis number for the current 6th gen Mustang, just like how the previous gen was known as the S197.

Yeah, really made me want to walk into an Audi dealer to buy one of their cars with omnidirectional spherical drive. Are they taking pre-orders for 2035 model year yet?

Cheating bicycles are driving innovation for more compact and power-dense electric motors and batteries, who’da thunk it? Then again, cheating and loophole-exploitation in competitive sport has always gone hand in hand with innovation and cutting edge technology. How many things do we take for granted in road cars…

My university (Waterloo) is using a 0.85L, anyone beat us with a smaller engine than that?

They’re actually using a snowmobile/multipurpose turbo 4-stroke, it’s a very similar engine as used by the snowmobile team. I should know, I designed the engine mounts for fitting that tiny thing in its massive engine bay when I did a co-op work term with them. Not quite 180hp but about 120hp, ontop of the 270-300+ hp…

Not a bad idea, but unless you’re only using the ICE as a generator and not mechanically driving the wheels in any way you’re probably going to have issues of it either revving too low to be of much use at low speeds or over-revving itself at high speeds. Works fine for the Koenigsegg because a huge 1100hp V8 can make…

It’s a student team competition that GM’s been the main sponsor of for years. Doesn’t really seem like the point is for GM to take whatever wins and put it into production, but to give engineering (and business) students in colleges the hands-on experience of building/heavily modifying a real car and keeping it…

My university’s involved in this too, and they’re using a 0.85L 2 cylinder turbo. Suffice to say majority of the power will come from electric motors. It’s a really cool project to work on, but I’d much rather drive the regular V6 Camaro it started off as honestly.

I think the Mazda 3 is the rare case where the sedan looks nicer than the hatch. At least with the current design language, it works better on a sedan. Generally, it’s only subcompact size cars that look hideous with an afterthought stuck on trunk, it can be pretty hit or miss for compacts.

Maybe they meant the 5th Gen Camaro specifically? The regular SS wasn’t exactly very well received as a precise track weapon, at least before the 1LE pack came out.

I want to see what sort of mayhem destruction would occur taking one of these around a track trying to beat a stock Huracan. On a track with long straights it might be faster for one lap before either something overheats or it spins out at 200mph and explodes.

Agreed. More angular than the ubiquitous blob they used to be, and no ghastly open mouth maw and completely overstyled mess like the new one.

Mustangs aren’t cheap and common cars there. High school girls don’t drive around in convertible V6 automatic Mustangs as might be the stereotype here, they’d drive some barely 100hp tiny hatchback if they could afford car insurance at all. The kind of people who’d buy a Mustang in Europe would be people who’d be…

The thing is, the Mustang GT you can buy in the UK starts at the equivalent of $50 grand US (35k GBP) based on all the fees and charges pretty much making American price in dollars the same amount as English price in pounds. Heck, even the base Ecoboost starts at 30k GBP which makes it more expensive than a Focus RS…