12-30-2017, 10:44 AM | #15 |
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800 HP.... unless taking it to the strip, when will you ever use it? I guess that's what people used to say about 300+. i have 505 and can't even come close to using it on a regular basis.
You do have to wonder how far it can go. Are we going to be looking at 1000 HP production cars at some point? Even then, it'll probably be beat by a Volt in a quick jaunt in the not too distant future, but i digress.
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12-30-2017, 10:18 PM | #16 |
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I think future performance cars will follow the Lotus strategy and shave weight from each part of the car until you end up with an ultra-lightweight Vehicle. Reducing unsprung mass will be most important, especially when it comes to the drivetrain. Lower drivetrain power loss allows the manufacturer to reduce the output of an engine and still have the same wheel horsepower. Straight line speed will be hard to come by in 15 years, but the number of fun to drive sports cars will grow. High horsepower is more about satisfaction(away from closed courses such as race tracks and drag strips) than anything, but it isn’t essential. With that said hybrid performance cars are already at 1000 horsepower, but they ain’t cheap. Give it 10 years and you’ll see a hybrid mid-engine Corvette with 1000 horsepower for $130,000
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12-31-2017, 08:13 AM | #18 |
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I don't think we have that long to wait. Check out: https://www.motor1.com/news/213128/2020-tesla-roadster/
The new Tesla Roadster:
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I just don’t want an electric car. Sure, silence is nice. Electric luxury cars would be far better than gas powered ones. But people who buy performance cars tend to make them louder or better sounding, not quiet with a little bit of whine from a battery. And the last thing we need is 8-second electric cars thinking they’re the sh*t at the drag strip. Like “yeah, congrats. You beat a 1000hp RWD car with a 700hp AWD Car!” I’m kinda tired already of Teslas doing no-prep events. It’s one thing to have an all-wheel drive drag car, but an electric all-wheel drive drag car is just unfair, especially when it costs $250,000. |
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Tesla may not be around in the next few years, they are spending money like drunken sailors! They spend WAY more than they are taking in and it cannot be sustained for much longer...having said that, I am sick of hearing about electric cars, I have zero interest in them and everyone I talk to does not either. My dealer has a Bolt sitting in the showroom, the sales manager who I am friends with siad nobody even looks at the thing let a lone shows any buying interest. People act like electricity is some new technology. And most people forget that a huge portion of the electricity produced in this country comes from fossil fuels, essentially the same thing.
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Second, have to agree about electric as being a reliable, cheap, sustainable mode of transportation. 40grand for an elctric smart car. I dont know any cars guys that like the idea of back all those batteries in a car just to burn alive in or burn your house down. Hell they cant even keep much smaller ones from burning up. How many hover boards, cell phones and other products that use "mondern" battery technology have burned peopled and property? Let others be the test subject. Im out. |
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12-31-2017, 12:04 PM | #23 |
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It's not a rumor, they have built a mid-engine car, it just hasn't been confirmed as an official model. There are numerous proto-type photos of it on the street....so it's just a matter of when...
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I am with you... silent blasts to 60 or down the 1/4 mile just don't do anything for me. Going fast is just part of the fun.
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12-31-2017, 05:30 PM | #25 |
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What gets me is they think there cars are green, there not, takes more energy to make a Tesla then a Camaro, and if they think we can power all the electric cars they want with the power grid we now have, they are smoking some of that funny cigarettes they sell now a days.
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Also, Tesla owners believe they're saving the environment. They're not. Again, I have nothing against a Tesla. Just tired of the ignorant and arrogant manner in which they thumb their noses at internal combustion cars w/out any clue about the environmental impact of making and disposing of all those batteries. Edit: As of 7/31/17 EV cars constituted 1% of all car sales. At end of 1H 2016 that number was .75%. Yes, it's a significant increase, but still a drop in bucket from a relative standpoint. Btw, not trying to argue w/ you. Just countering that article. The EV evangelists will have you believe that EV car sales are really taking off. Not hardly.
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