Dude, a Tesla semi truck would need 10X the batteries of a Model S. Think about how much fuel capacity your typical big rig has. An electric semi would need a damn MEGAwatt hour of juice!

Right. The energy capacity is still much too low for a useful pickup truck used for towing. 90 kwh isn’t enough. For a Tesla pickup to be a true competitor with an F150 it’ll probably need a 200 kwh batter.

Personally, I’d prefer something else at the Pontiac dealer circa 1963...

Is it obvious whether this is AC or DC? Because it’s not to me.

Doing your best speedhunters impression, eh?

I still love the LFA and will probably love the new GT.

So the new GT is a marketing exercise akin to the Lexus LFA.

Late For Meeting

But we do have to respect how much simpler and lighter an OHV can be. I think the LS motor weighs pretty similarly to DOHC engines with 25% less displacement.

Yeah, the shortcomings of OHV pushrod engines are easy to understand. Their valve springs have a lot more things to shove back and forth haha

Ah, here is where Torch shows his mental shortcomings:

Nice! I just read the whole linkedin article, and I think he’s right. He is confirming what I always thought: flat planes have less rotational inertia than cross planes and thus gain revs quicker, which is very useful for F1 cars that have to match revs to selected gears quickly, but mostly useless in road cars.

Yeah, dude. The tiny little V8 in the Alfa Romeo Montreal sounded awesome with its cross plane crank.

I didn’t think flat-plane allowed for higher redline. I had thought that flatplanes gained revs quicker for some reason. Is the flat plane actually more stable at high revs?

Oh, I didn’t see. Did it say Maserati? In which case this must be the 4.7L.

What car donated its motor for this?

There are already several examples of FRS/GT86/BRZ with a 2JZ-GTE running around, and at least one of them is a pro drifter.

“I’ve got balllllsss of steeeel”