Those performance numbers are also competitive with a 1993 Supra Turbo...is this really what you’d call progress?

If this is sharing oily bits with the next Z4/Z5 then I imagine it’s going to cost more than double what a BRZ does. The MK4 turbo Supras would have been $70k in 2017 money, and $70k can buy you a lot of performance nowadays.

Forget about tuned Supras, but surely bringing the car back after nearly 20 years it should be aimed at a higher performance target than the MK4 was? I get about keeping it attainable, but the Supra was never cheap in its top trim anyways (equivalent to $70k nowadays). Do you think the R35 GT-R would have been much of…

But how effective is a wing when the air is going over it sideways?

That is an amazing story, thanks for sharing!

That would be a pretty big concern, however unlike the Concorde this would be unmanned so there would be no issue of keeping passengers from getting toasted. I imagine the nuclear reactor would generate far more heat than the friction from the air at low altitude, so with thick enough thermal shielding it should…

Still, even if you shrunk a Microbus enough that its frontal area matched the E-Type, I’d still imagine that the brick on wheels would have a worse drag coefficient than the phallic car.

It’s nothing to do with Formula E being more advanced or the future of racing. It’s just a newer, much cheaper series with much slower cars. This isn’t about advancing technology, it’s about not wanting to shell out on competing at the highest level of motorsport next to F1. I’m not against electric propulsion, in…

Buncha glorified go-karts bleeding real racing series dry.

Apparently the 991.2 GT3 (with PDK) is already just as fast as the 991.1 GT3 RS on some tracks despite being less hardcore on paper. I’d wager a 991.2 GT3 manual would be faster round a track and be just as engaging as this manual-swapped RS, but having the world’s only manual 991.1 GT3 RS has a cool factor making…

Randomly arranged short fibers still provide a lot of strengthening, and while it won’t be as good as traditionally woven CF when stressed “along the grain”, it’d be equally stiff and strong from any orientation and less prone to propagating cracks. Carbon fiber, fiberglass, and even particle board are all composite…

$40,000 is a lot but on a $200k car almost any modification that doesn’t ruin the car with low quality crap would require forking out a lot of money.

I agree, but there’s a reason almost all high-revving engines have larger bore than stroke, because reducing the piston speed has a greater effect on inertial forces than the increased weight of larger bore pistons. Also, the flame front as gases ignite can only travel so fast, so a long stroke engine at high rpm…

It’s not the displacement itself that makes it hard for big engines to rev so high, but the stroke length. The pistons and connecting rods need to move faster and are under greater acceleration (thus higher stresses) for a longer stroke at the same rpm. Maybe this V12 has a wider bore and shorter stroke than other 6+L…

None of those cars rev higher than 9000 rpm, the Valkyrie will supposedly go to 11k so even if it makes similar torque/L to other engines on that list but sustained to higher rpm it would likely reach the claimed power at the expense of having less torque at low rpm. Not sure how that can pass emissions easily, but…

Honestly I prefer the dub for Initial D simply because I get to hear J Michael Tatum voicing Ryosuke, one of my all time favorite English voice actors.

Yeah, 100km/h might be painfully slow on most highways, but on a tight winding road with no visibility it’s pretty ballsy.

Same power, more downforce. So it’s not the talent to handle even more than 800hp, but to have the balls to trust you can now take the same corner even faster without turning into a 2 million dollar fireball.

Yeah, but you only bother with doing a launch if you’re trying to shave the last 1/10th of a second from your 0-60 or whatever. Simply mashing the gas from a stop would give you more than enough acceleration off the line to have fun, especially in a car like a GTI that reaches peak torque barely off idle. Just don’t…

I think the issue is whether you’re accelerating normally or with a drag-race style launch. 99% of time you aren’t going to be brake-torquing or have launch control engaged when you leave a stoplight, so making good torque from idle to ~3k rpm is important for getting off the line in a hurry. A drag race is the 1%…