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As long as you watch the temperature, I think most cars should be fine staying near redline on twisty roads. When having fun, I usually keep my...
Yep, that's what I was referring to before. It's equivalent to saying that a car applies about 50% of its peak power throughout the run (with no...
Besides the much more sophisticated designs in F1, similar engines with shorter strokes almost always have better specific power figures. F1 cars...
"A second is a constant" is not a meaningful statement here. Power is defined to be the rate of change of work. The work done by some force is (in...
Did you read what I wrote? The factor of 8 applies for an object with a constant drag coefficient. That's something which stays the same shape and...
I've corrected your link in this quote. It agrees with what I said, by the way. Power lost to drag scales as speed cubed (assuming that the drag...
You're just throwing out buzzwords here. There are a lot of misunderstandings in what you said. I claimed that it takes 8 times the power to...
Not quite. If you're talking only about overcoming drag, doubling speed actually requires 8 times the power. Drag force scales with speed squared....
The recent GTO sounds great stock. For some reason, they put a much nicer exhaust on it than on Vettes (which share the same engines).
The car is real (or at least one which is almost identical). I don't know how the hood is opened, but I've seen it in Santa Monica. The Hyundai...
The Enzo isn't a pig. It's a significantly larger car than a McLaren F1, so it naturally weighs more. The only way that anybody gets large weight...
I think that the biggest improvements we'll see in the near future will be in software. Cars today can electronically influence their brakes,...
I did some spelling bees when I was a kid, and a lot of the other people were very strange. At the end of one competition, they had the top few...
It's obvious that none of these cars spun out. I doubt you could find any reasonably modern car where that would happen, actually (even without...
They seem to have just jerked the wheel over 90 degrees or so in each case. Each car will have different steering ratios, so they didn't even turn...
That has to be the most pointless performance test I've ever seen.
Small displacement engines lose their efficiency once you start tuning them to have decent performance. They consume a lot of fuel, tend to have...
I actually like Subaru's. But that's probably because I'm an astronomy buff. It's actually a representation of the Pleiades star cluster, which is...
I doubt that. What do you consider tremendous?
Thanks for the correction. I'd thought that those cars came with regular high-perf tires in the US. Maybe I'm thinking of the 996 GT3.
