If this car truly is in an unrestricted class when it races at the Nurburgring, and it has less than 500 hp, and it's not getting beat.... then I think GM needs to show up in a race prepared ZR1. I seriously doubt the fuel mileage advantage this car has would hold up against something with nearly double the horsepower.
It has 472hp, but can make 672Hp because the hybrid flywheel in it produces 200Hp at the push of a button.
It's cute you're also proposing the Horsepower>Everything else idea. Circuit racing isn't about straight out horsepower. Otherwise, there would be straight wins by the 703hp 908 over the 590Hp Audi.
...and yes, there are less complicated ways to push a button for a boost of horsepower. Nitrous is one of them, using methanol with a turbocharged car is another. Active aero can have a similar effect (think F1).
Do you not
read anything or do you just skim posts & not use common sense?
They are not going to produce production cars with an actual nitrous system. Again, learn what KERS is & why it's used. Hint: It's environmentally friendly.
I just can't stand that stupid smiley face! Come on, what real and serious super car would look like that? Just ridiculous! Honda has an oportunity to gain some respect back, so far thy've blown it with this souless thing.
This. It looks heavy and way too futuristic. No soul whatsoever. I still prefer the first generation.
Also look at the new Honda Beat. It's FF, not MR. Like a del Slo...
Soulless? You 2 know nothing about how this car drives, so how do you know it's soulless?
Oh right, just more assumptions based on nothing.
I have no idea about Le Mans. I'm kinda being led to believe that this 24 hours of Nurburgring has very few restrictions on what teams can do to their cars. If this 911 is winning in mostly unrestricted classes then they should be coming up against vastly more powerful cars. If that's actually the case, that the hybrid Porsche is beating more powerful cars.... then I'm on my way to conceding the point, but I just don't think that's likely to be true.
The Porsche 911 has come up against more powerful cars at the race, even without the Hybrid technology. The LF-A that enters the VLN produces 560Hp. A Ford GT that has entered produced 550Hp+. The Audi R8 LMS enters with 490Hp.
And yet, for the past 6 years (excluding 2010 when BMW won), a Porsche 911 has won the event. 2010 would have been won as well had the Hybrid not suffered a piston failure in the final hour.
Again, circuit racing is not about all out horsepower, esp. not in endurance racing. Get that mindset out of here.
The only point I'm trying to make is that I question the idea that hybrid technology is outright superior when it's compared to cars that aren't allowed to fully develop their own cars because they're restricted by a set of rules and regulations.
I gave you the most perfect example of this hybrid car vs. the conventional car.
Porsche 911 GT3R (472Hp) vs. Porsche 911 GT3R Hybrid (472Hp+200Hp Hybrid flywheel). In 2010, before the air restrictor & weight penalties, the GT3R Hybrid lead the race for 8 hours unmatched compared to Manthey. Take
note right here that for the majority of the race, the Hybrid is running 472Hp. It can only use the extra 200 horses for 6-8 seconds at most, which means it's used for passing only (as it is in F1). The reason it does so well in addition to is because it's more aerodynamic, lighter, & all-wheel drive.
