Also, the 1.4T Fiat 124 is quite a bit slower than the 2.0L Miata even though the Miata only makes 155hp.
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Even the outgoing Si was a bit of a disappointment from an excitement perspective because the previous Si revved to 8000 rpm which set it apart from more pedestrian Honda 4 cylinders. Now it’s lost the naturally aspirated engine completely.
It’s a tiny displacement engine with a tiny turbo that will be tuned for trying to minimize turbo lag and hopefully running on regular gas. Look forward to it being mostly dead above 6k rpm even if they let it rev to a moderately high 7k rpm.
To a certain extent, if you want to know how much G a bike is pulling in a corner, just see how far it’s leaning. Only sports bikes are really designed to let you lean far enough to pull serious G, and not only can a big cruiser not tilt that far before scraping but nobody would want to push one past the limits of…
Yeah, what’s the point of that splitter on an otherwise reasonable height MDX?
Really? And who outside of America and possibly Canada gives a shit about either Nascar or Indy? It’s something very localized, and while immensely popular it doesn’t really amount to anything internationally. But at the same time, I don’t think Le Mans has nearly the recognition worldwide as F1 does. I don’t know…
Is this part of the joke tho?
Good point, I was going for irony because of how much some of those fundie Christian absolutely loathe and are terrified by Islam and would obviously not want to defect to a country full of brown people.
If they want to defect to somewhere without marriage equality and legal abortions, and where they can sure as hell keep religion in their classrooms and politics, they do have a good selection in the Middle East.
Perfect, let it stew on that lot for a few years then I’d be happy to pick up the world’s worst colored Viper for $10k.
It runs low 11s at 125, exactly the same as the regular GTR with 50 less hp and without the body kit and gaudy red lipstick. Yeah yeah I know the body kit is for downforce at the track but it’s hardly making a massive amount of aerodynamic grip.
How about when it starts getting dismantled by equally or less expensive cars like it already has? And by less expensive I don’t just mean the insane performance bargain supercar slayers like the Z06 and ACR, but when a Shelby GT350R and a regular-grade 911S with “only” 420hp can handily beat a 2017 GTR on a racetrack…
It’s not about drivetrain losses. In that case, the full power of the engine is still made, but due to the fact that mechanical components aren’t made of zero friction pixie dust it doesn’t all reach the wheels. Tesla would have similar losses from the motors to the reduction gears and differentials since those…
Yeah duh that’s implied. There are basically 4 races happening simultaneously at Le Mans, and the prototype drivers would have to be stupendously drunk and/or crashed in order for a GT class car to take overall win given the performance disparity.
I think it’s implied. Absolutely nobody is expecting a GT car to come within miles of LMP1 at Le Mans.
The secret to success is being so ambitious your race position readout can only show one digit.
Yeah BoP could have made a lot of sense but it’s a deeply shitty system that essentially rewards/requires sandbagging and punishes people for actually doing well within the confines of the rules. It’s supposed to artificially make races more competitive and harder to predict, but it also takes away most of the meaning…
If this were a base Focus or even a Focus ST, you’d have more of a point. But this is a real performance car in a small hatchback package. Pretty sure it isn’t the first hot hatch to come with super sticky tires, a few European ones have done the same years ago.
The XJ220 was a disappointment at the time, but a disappointing hypercar can still end up being pretty legendary several years later. Everyone knows a turbo V6 can make over 600hp, but it sounds better and feels more special coming out of something with more cylinders.