How long until road cars become so powerful that AWD becomes necessity rather than optional?
>>15454645
Right about....now.
Why would they? How are the current power levels inadequate? Wouldn't you rather improve fuel economy instead of even more needless power in mass market cars?
>>15454660
People probably said the same thing 25 years ago. You're an idiot if you don't think cars are going to get more and more power.
>>15454645
The One:1 has 1,000kw and is still RWD.
Using a properly designed chassis, good tyres and computers that know they're shit, it doesn't have any problem.
>>15454674
Supercars did, but the average car? Nah ah.
>>15454664
That's because it's shitty and boring.
>he needs AWD for 3 and 4 figure power numbers
>>15454696
You are aware top fuel don't actually run 10,000hp, right?
Even pushed at low altitudes on cool days they top out at around 8-8,500.
>>15454696
holy shit those wheels!
>>15454704
They just measured one recently. It peaked at over 11 000 and averaged around 7000.
>>15454680
they did, and then it plateaued
>marginal improvements in efficiency with each generation used to just haul more weight around for zero practical power gains
>>15454704
This
>>15454719
You say 8-8,500 as if it's some small number too, top fuel dragsters are astonishing machines.
>sub-4 second 1/4 mile
>speeds over 330mph
>0-60mph in a few feet
>0-100mph in something near one second
Who cares if they get rebuilt each run, they melt spark plugs and diesel halfway down the track, they friction weld their clutches together, the amount of boost they end up running is astonishing, a regular car motor can't even power their superchargers.
>>15454736
I think you fucked up your replies senpai
>>15454676
> computers that know they're shit
> computers that know their shit
![43ab6f29d9753cf805756556b76559cf[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bfkSKW2.jpg "43ab6f29d9753cf805756556b76559cf[1].jpg")
>>15454714
at speed
>>15455196
The fucking downforce must be mental at speed.
>>15454736
They accelerate at something like 5 fucking Gs
>>15455194
You didn't make a mistake. You had a happy accident.
When a computer knows it's shit, it means it won't try to interfere? That might be a good thing. It just does as it's told.
>>15455196
fucking dipshits, they'd go faster if their wheels weren't shaped like pentagons
>>15454704
Is that all?
>>15454645
checkd
>>15454696
drivers generally turn while driving
>>15454660
>instead of even more needless power
My vote is for the needless power.
>>15454645
never
f1 cars are rwd and roadcars will never be close to that fast.
Plus rwd car will always be faster than awd cars because less weight and less parasitic loss.
>>15458428
Your insurance company would like to disagree with you
This already happened with the Jaguar F-Type R
>>15458448
Those things are wearing tires that are so grippy they disintegrate in 1000th the time of a road tire though.
>become so powerful
Here's a not-so-secret industry secret: We already had the means to cheaply produce 600+ HP machines for the average consumer as far back as the 60s.... however we really don’t since
1) No great incentive to do. Even if they'd be affordable, it's cheaper to produce reliable 90 - 270 HP shitboxes as 97% of users find this adequate. This is why most consumer ICEs fall in this region.
2) to a limited extent, environmental concerns were a factor.
>>15458566
>put f1 tires on a 918
>now faster than f1 car
no
>>15457357
>Not hill-climbing your funny car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2BaSEJNrv0
