Better for who? I'd prefer to watch a pack of cars work through a chicane rather than watch them fly by at 400km/h. Braking from v-max down to maybe 100km/h is, in my opinion, a more impressive spectacle than just watching drivers keep their right foot mashed to the floor. Anybody can do that. However it takes a…
How about the Circuit De La Sarthe, which is a track that some claim has you on the throttle flat-out for 85% of a lap? It combines a street course and purpose built race track with a mind-bending eight-mile straight that sadly has been split into three segments to connect it all.
It wouldn't take much effort to give the car a good once over and make a list of things that should be addressed. Then determine what it would cost to remedy each item and prioritize/decide which items you can afford/manage to fix.
Yeah, I think he purposefully keeps it a heap for journalistic purposes because for not much money he could replace most of the sketchy bits and have a vehicle that will at least make it to the event. I'd rather hear the story about he broke it and fixed it while racing. However, if limping a busted car to a race can…
Just go pick one up from the south on the cheap and drive it back. I've been looking at 240z cars lately and there are plenty clean examples in California alone for sub $10k.
The S38 had ITBs and the S70 does not therefore crack pipe.
So much win in this commercial lol...
Is this an El Camino van? Aussie hearse?
American horsepower...
The three way drag to the finish line in the go kart race in the Little Rascals movie... which you can enjoy with Spanish dub overs...
Nice close pedal placement is great for heel-toe...down.... errr.... yeah....umm.... great for unintended acceleration I guess.
Well the steering is electric, so it's probably set-up to be a higher ratio so it's less twitchy at high speeds. The thing that I'm wondering about is how the rear axle steering is working on the track. At high speeds the rear wheels steer the same way as the steering wheels to make high speed lane changes easier and…
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Wait... it says sold out on the eventbrite page.... how fast did it sell out? I've been checking Jalopnik every day for the posting of the tickets, don't tell me I've missed it by a mere hour and change!
I spent half the video watching his eccentric steering wheel bob up and down. I think for drifting it'd definitely be nicer to have a round wheel with the hub centred in the middle of the wheel.
That's where the saying "There's no replacement for displacement" comes from. If you want more torque, generally speaking you need more displacement (however there is something to be said for forced induction). The 458 engine is only 4.5L displacement, which is relatively small for a naturally aspirated engine in the…
Big brakes means big wheels. Bottom line.
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It's getting there...