Mk 7 vs Focus ST

[bentin]

Tesla just needs to go back to ripping off lightweight lotus, but give it a single, simple motor, a carbon tub, and a drop in battery that's good for 50 miles and can be hot swapped. Maybe one day, but for now there aren't much better alternatives to my 5mpg setup... Lol

Yeah, one of my neighbors had a Roadster when I lived in Laguna Beach a decade ago. It was nice and quick down low, certainly didn't do well getting into triple digits, but Teslas are still dealing with that. The two speed transmission in the Taycan helps a bit with the issue.

As for tracking, the Model 3 rear motors are much better suited to hot laps than the older design (and the front motors still) and the newest Model S's are getting those motors now too. Eventually they'll fix the front motors too and they'll actually be pretty solid lap cars. They've certainly come a long way, they can turn laps at 100+ temps now, just not many and, like you said, they need a good cool down between laps, but that's true of M Cars and AMG's too, and back to your earlier post, it's really only Porsche that sells you a car that you can track all day long.

 

[bentin]

Non sequitar

Spent 2 weeks there for a marine biology course.

We found a massive turtle (probably 200+ lbs) that had been hit by a propeller. 4 of us could barely carry it. Called them and 2 people came. Scrawny girl and and a huge dude. After we had been struggling to move it closer, he just squats, hugs it and dead lifts it and marches up the beach with it.

Anyway, they nursed it back to health and released it a few months later.

Did they properly lube it?

 

[MonkeyMD]

Did they properly lube it?

Maybe that's why we couldn't carry it..definitely not because we could barely curl a text book

 

[GTIfan99]

Dude if Hyundai tosses in genesis levels of fit and finish into the next veloster n. It’s a wrap

Unless it's hideous like the last 2.

 

[Keehs360]

Unless it's hideous like the last 2.

Stop summoning Jim

 

[GTIfan99]

Stop summoning Jim

Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice

 

[jimlloyd40]

Stop summoning Jim

You rang.

 

[GTIfan99]

You rang.

Tell us about your lord and savior, the Veloster.

 

[Keehs360]

You rang.

LOL. @GTIfan99 talking shit!

 

[jimlloyd40]

Tell us about your lord and savior, the Veloster.

Wasn't my lord and savior but I liked my 16 Veloster Turbo. Hopped that up as far as I could with the torque limit of the 16 DSG. Had the N been available with a DSG when I got my GTI I would have got the Veloster instead.

 

[Keehs360]

Wasn't my lord and savior but I liked my 16 Veloster Turbo. Hopped that up as far as I could with the torque limit of the 16 DSG. Had the N been available with a DSG when I got my GTI I would have got the Veloster instead.

It’s a great dsg too, the n’s dsg programming is leaps and bounds better than the Gti’s.

 

[jimlloyd40]

It’s a great dsg too, the n’s dsg programming is leaps and bounds better than the Gti’s.

So they have an N with the DSG now?

 

[Keehs360]

So they have an N with the DSG now?

It’s an 8 speed. The suspension was dialed in differently too due to the added weight. And it’s a wet clutch

 

[jimlloyd40]

It’s an 8 speed. The suspension was dialed in differently too due to the added weight. And it’s a wet clutch

Has the ECU been cracked yet?

 

[Keehs360]

Has the ECU been cracked yet?

Pffffft

Cobb still has no interest in the platform. A Korean group was able to make simple changes to timing boost and fuel. But nothing substantially better than a jb4. The dsg, no one’s even trying on cracking that tcu either.