On the other hand, mashing the gas in a straight line in a very powerful car (>700hp, for instance) on the street isn’t something you can do very often or for more than a couple seconds without getting into deeply illegal speeds or having major traction issues. Mashing the gas in a car that’s too underpowered (<120hp…

Thrust is force, and force multiplied by velocity is power. So jet engines do make power, it’s just not as usable a metric. Torque may be an intermediary product of how a jet engine works, but unless you’re connecting the turbine shaft to a transmission and drive wheels (or to a generator) it’s pretty much irrelevant.

The 0-60 time is 5 seconds only if there’s no trailer, it’s just a byproduct of having lots of torque available in something that’s not enormously heavy without a payload. With a trailer at max capacity, the 0-60 time is 20 seconds which is brisk enough to keep up with traffic (assuming the driver is flooring it) but…

Pokemon Go Fuck Yourself?

I don’t think any car manufacturer in history has admitted that their car makes net lift, especially if it’s meant to be something sporty. Unless they admit it in retrospect so they can say that the new model has “500% more downforce!”.

You obviously haven’t grown up enough if you still think it’s cool to call it Fail wheel drive.

Losses aren’t a fixed power amount either, and I’d reckon the majority of drivetrain losses do scale with the power output even if it might not be the oft-quoted 15% value. It doesn’t take 400hp just to turn this GTR’s drivetrain, but it’s possible that 400hp is consumed under the full load of 3000hp due to drivetrain…

For now it’s the fact that this kind of car has closer to 400 miles of range even if you drove it rather aggressively, and can be fully refueled in about a minute anywhere there’s a gas station (ie pretty much every other intersection). That convenience is what the combustion engine still holds over electric, and it’s…

I think the general gist of it is that super lean air:fuel ratio means energy is extracted from combustion more efficiently and certain emissions are less likely to form. But that also means you’re using so much less fuel with the amount of air typically sucked into the cylinder that the torque output would be really…

The problem with spark knock is that it’s happening uncontrollably with little pockets of gas exploding independent of the overall flame front, which means it can cause a lot of local stresses and cause damage over time. Homogeneous compression ignition, like in Mazda’s new engine or any diesel engine, is much more…

The flammable mixture is perhaps too lean to ignite simply by coming in contact with the fireball (which is created by igniting a locally richer fuel/air mix), which is why it ignites homogeneously due to the pressure rather than the flame front just continuing to grow like in regular gasoline engines.

The Miata’s and Evora’s look decent. The rest are hideously rendered.

Queue a year of hyping and anticipation for Junker Queen, and then immediate disappointment, salt, and strongly worded calls for nerfs/buffs/trivial bs the instant she’s released and playable.

Where’s the part where the car sits in traffic for 10 minutes and nobody says a damn word? Or where the male lead crashes his Civic with his girlfriend then jerks off to her comatose body in hospital? They’ve also got to have all the people and cars on the road explode into orange juice right at the end.

Challenger/Charger Hellcats have trouble running below mid 11s stock because they simply don’t have the traction to launch anywhere near as hard as claimed unless you can work magic with your right foot. On a poor run it’s likely to see a 0-60 time way over 4 seconds instead of low 3s. Nose heavy RWD car with 707hp on…

Weirdly so is over 250 mph

A ZR1 prototype tearing up the Ring not long after the end-of-production ACR making a record attempt there? I know the ZR1 isn’t out to set a laptime just yet, but this feels like a “The King is dead, Long live the King!” moment.

Generally (depending on local rules) you may only have to stay and report accidents resulting in expensive damage to the car(s) and infrastructure involved, injuries, or if a clear crime had actually been committed.

Rookie move but I’m not sure if it’s a case of “doesn’t know how to handle a sliding RWD car” or “does know but just panicked when misjudging the slide and thus made it worse”.

Yeah there’s nothing at all wrong with 335hp, and BMW turbo engines tend to be a bit on the underrated side. It’s just why would anyone pay BMW money for a BMW-based Toyota “Supra” that can’t be had with a manual (while the BMW version likely can) and offers performance that one can attain nowadays in a significantly…