Why are hypercars so slow?
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>bait
No, really.
Here is one car that is a miracle of modern engineering, and a bottom of the barrel shitbox. The former has track focus, costs a hundred times more, bleeding edge technology, and a dozen times the horsepower. The latter is about as slow as you can buy.
Yet around the track, the 918 is only a mere 30% faster. Why isn't it, say, twice as fast or something? That doesn't make sense to me,
>>14839315
hey its roger posting from my thinkpad edge e530c
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i would reply "we are in the space time bend and when we return to earth u will have been getting showered by my jizz for 100 years and ur son will be old, lets show him the post we have from 4chan where i said this will happen"
her response will be "GALAHOIJAORJLAIJ" because she just took a huge rim salad from me
dont look it up probably too much for u
>>14839315
The Vayron SS has 20% more power then the standard yet doesn't go 20% faster. Lewis Hamilton has 300% more world champions then Jenson Button but he doesn't out qualify 300% faster.
An increase of just 1% off of a latimer can be very expensive, and usually scales logarithmicly. Especially if the car is to also be usable for normal car things.
>>14839330
Ah, I see.
I don't know why I didn't think of that before.
>Bunch of cones in a parking lot
>Race track
>>14839315
diminishing returns occur in all forms of engineering
same with planes, helicopters, anything really.
The cost for that extra performance goes up exponentially as you progress.
Because you are twice as powerful doesn't mean you wil be twice as fast recause corners exist. The only case in which that would be somewhat close to true is in drag racing. And even then there are still a lot of other elements that come into play.
>>14839315
On small handling courses and figure 8s that may hold true, but when on a proper large track the hyper car would potentially be minutes faster. For example, if your two example cars were to do the Nurburgring against each other, the Spark would probably finish 5+ minutes slower than the 918.
Also, a lot of hypercars have a pretty wide turning radius, causing them to not do well on little courses like that.
>can't even compete with cacti
>>14839361
This. A really aggressive LSD widens turning radius by a lot, which is why Porsche doesn't use mechanical LSD on their road-oriented cars.
>>14839315
You're baiting and if you're not, you're absolutely retarded.
>>14839315
>americans drive around in 68 hp chevy econoboxes
>>14839367
GROW BIG CACTUS
>>14839431
What's next, americucks? 0.9 Cummins Diesel? Also, Spark is literally a stolen design from Daewoo's Matiz.
>>14839578
Its not stolen. It's licensed. Car manufacturers do this all the time.
>>14839315
It's something called diminishing returns.
Particularly with exponential drag and friction.
Twice the power does not make cars twice as fast. Three times the power does not make cars three times as fast.
>>14839315
Bleeding edge tech doesn't laptime records make.
>>14839431
>>14839578
It' funny. I;ve literally never seen one of those on the road. I've only seen like two Aveos.
Small cars don't sell well here. People usually pop the extra 2-4 grand to get a regular compact instead of driving around these europoor-tier cars.
>>14841788
The funny part is, even in yurop the Spark sells like shit. People would rather buy its (vastly superior) competitors.
>>14839380
> A really aggressive LSD widens turning radius by a lot
Not if you turn traction control off and stay on the gas like we did back in the stone age
>>14839351
This. Power returns aren't linear.
>>14839578
Daewoo is owned by GM.
