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Old 02-05-2020, 10:23 AM   #120
Norm Peterson
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If a 1000 hp Camaro existed and it handled like GM ride and handling engineers are world famous for would that change your minted?
Still no, and that's before inserting any doubt that even GM's R&H crew could actually make a 5000 lb vehicle feel like it was 1500 lbs lighter. There's 'nimble', there's 'deliberate', and then there's 'heavy'. At 0.9 lat-g, they won't feel the same.


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And so far the answer is suddenly I don’t care about having the best performing car I want the best rumbling car.
That's one of the subjectives. More important to some than others, but to be entirely truthful I'd take just about any ICE exhaust sound over the whine of an electric. Certainly either a crossplane or flat-plane V8, or a sixxer, or a high-revving inline-4.


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