Ekona

Can we not move this to one of the other pro-Tesla threads?

MOAR PEAROAST

You're only jealous 'cos I was surrounded by lesbians

Sacrilege! Burn him at the stake!

surprised you dont crash more often, falling asleep in that silver euro box you drive That's why I've got stickers all over mine still

*grabs coat*

I nearly fell asleep looking at that.

No, they didn't.

32/33 would be my preference. Starting with 35/35 and adjusting to suit is also a perfectly acceptable start.

I saw a regular Civic today, and I think I've figured out the main problem with the CTR. It's not the chav tat they've stuck onto it that's made it so damn ugly, it's the fact that the stock car is one hideous, bulbous design in the first place! Seriously, go take a look at one, they're awful. I know Civics have never been lookers, but this really isn't pretty at all. I kinda feel bad for mocking the CTR designers now, having seen what they had to start with they probably couldn't have done any better.

It may be too early in the morning for me, but am I reading that correctly that you've now made the side windows illegal, despite having been pulled for this before? Great thread btw, I like how you've broken down all the steps and given annotated photos to show the engineering difficulties and how you've overcome them

Greys and silvers look fine, but every single car ever made looks better in a different colour The one exception is a 300SL. Well, and a DB5. But that's it. Just those two.

I didn't even know you could still order a new standard 370.

Might want to alter your ad, 2000K miles is a LOT of miles: That's 2,000,000, which I suspect isn't quite right. I assume you mean 2K miles, anyway.

Oh, in that case you should probably know that those pics were posted here a few months ago anyway! Also, remember the golden rule of internet forums: Thread Drift Is Life.

Why would you pay to make your car boring? As nice as a car can look in a good grey in the right light, it's essentially just an incredibly dull and thoroughly uninteresting colour. I mean, each to their own, but thankfully the trend for silver & grey cars is a fad from the early noughties that's dying out.

Bit of rice is fine, bags of chav tat not so much.

Seems to backward to design a car with wing vents, but blank them off TVR did with the Sagaris, but I forgive them for doing that. Honda with this, not so much.

If the coverage was any good it'd be a bargain, but it's not. So it's not.

Interesting bit in Evo this month on the CTR and the aero. Some positive stuff on the wing and underfloor, but on the subject of vents: "Other aero features on the Type R are a little dubious. The large front-wheelarch vents that could be used to cool brakes and reduce high pressures under the wheelarches are mostly blanked. So too are the bonnet vents, which could help draw hot air from the engine bay." Style over substance. Shame.

What's really worrying is that if the new GT-R has some very complex software running some very complex hybrid systems, it could mean that modding a GT-R is either impossible or very expensive. And that would be a real shame. That's kinda why I'm hoping they go with something very simple and basic!

Totally don't need water cannons though, eh?

What do you think happens to the performance of the P1/918 when their respective battery packs become deplete and there is no charge left to power the electric motor?? A P1/918 on track will be able to re-generate 'some' of the energy used up through brake-regen, but battery based brake regen only recaptures at best 30% of the kinetic energy, it's not very efficient. Just had a look the P1 has a 4.7 kWh battery, which is a very small amount of charge. Unless McLaern have found a way to defy the laws of physics, the battery will only supply the electric motor with power for a very short period of time. Ofcourse clever electronics can be used to use the motor very sparingly to help 'boost' the 700bhp+ ICE motor at certain rev point etc...BUT essentially it's a very very quick petrol powered hyper car. Which is exactly what the GT-R will be. It won't haveanything remotely like the systems found in F1. The P1's motor is used for torque fill in the range before the turbos spool, which is what makes it so monstrous. The 918 uses one motor on the rear to assist the V8, and one on the front to drive the front wheels to give 4WD. Either way would work for the GT-R, although I'd expect it to be using perhaps two motors on the rear wheels to give at least some resemblance to the LMP1 car for the sake of advertising.

Exactly. Chuck a couple of motors onto the axles and BOOM instant extra grunt. It doesn't need to be as complex as the systems in race cars, and indeed that would never work due to the differing demands between road and track use.

Nope, sounds like a brilliant idea to me!