Dr.Caligari posted:

I live on the outskirts of a small, relatively poor city in Ohio (the average household income is something like $37k a year) and the newest 'upper-end' sports car I ever see is an occasional new vette and the one same GTR . So my jaw dropped when I saw this beast parked outside the hospital today:




Any idea of what year model this is? That thing was wide and sexy as hell.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures

Panty Saluter posted:

Who is that on the left?

Preoptopus posted:

Heres one way to bring an impulse buy BMW home to your wife.

Phy posted:

Who is driving?

Panty Saluter posted:

Bear is driving! How can this be?!

Panty Saluter posted:

Bear is driving! How can this be?!

VikingSkull posted:

Ken Block's new gymkhana car

amenenema posted:

Zoom in on the toggle switches on the center of the dash.

razorscooter posted:

atomicthumbs posted:

zoomin' in on that pink and green chromatic aberration instead

Preoptopus posted:

Heres one way to bring an impulse buy BMW home to your wife.

Butt Wizard posted:

I just wanted to draw attention how awesomely one-sided this is.

Throatwarbler posted:

The ebrake handle is some kind of stylized sword hilt?

Preoptopus posted:

Camry:


more here
http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/first-looks/photos-2015-sema-toyota-camry-sleeper#slide-1

amenenema posted:

Zoom in on the toggle switches on the center of the dash.

Darchangel posted:

I've thought that the last few years of Camry (and Corolla, for that matter) have looked a lot more aggressive, in a good way. This one at least lives up to the aggressive styling.

Darchangel posted:

I've thought that the last few years of Camry (and Corolla, for that matter) have looked a lot more aggressive, in a good way. This one at least lives up to the aggressive styling.

amenenema posted:

Zoom in on the toggle switches on the center of the dash.

A3th3r posted:

brb, pressing the 'donuts' button on Ken Block's new Gymhakana monster dreamcar..

xzzy posted:

Careful, it functions like a buffer. If you press it too many times it'll queue up the pending commands and do nothing but spin in circles all day trying to clear the backlog.

jamal posted:

Ha, I took that picture. It's the console of the FXMD NSX btw:

EightBit posted:

Is this supposed to be a warning? 'Cus I'm not seeing anything from dissuading me from doing that...

MattD1zzl3 posted:

Not an appealing prospect. The ongoing performance success of the LT/LS/LT platforms make all this DOHC horseshit look like a flash in the plan. In a world where we need to fit turbos and batteries into our engine bay, a OHV configuration seems just fine to me.

Falken posted:

Here's a turboed 3.0L 944 race car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mm3w5OvywI

MattD1zzl3 posted:

Not an appealing prospect. The ongoing performance success of the LT/LS/LT platforms make all this DOHC horseshit look like a flash in the plan. In a world where we need to fit turbos and batteries into our engine bay, a OHV configuration seems just fine to me.

VikingSkull posted:

notice that the company doing it is Mercury Marine

packaging is often not a problem in the engine bay of a 37' Cigarette

atomicthumbs posted:

I disagree. When we can finally put "TWIN CAM" decals across the bottom of our doors again, we will truly be free

Seat Safety Switch posted:

Really, I think we should add more cams to each head. I won't be happy until each valve is independently controlled by its own camshaft.

kastein posted:

That's the way the next Audi V8 will be done when everyone else is using hydraulic or solenoid actuated valves. Each valve's camshaft will have a sensor that can leak coolant or oil into the wiring harness as well as a brazed steel tube assembly for high pressure oil and a control module that manages the valve that runs the cam that runs the valve.

There will be 32 timing chains and 16 balance shafts. On the back of the engine.

kastein posted:

That's the way the next Audi V8 will be done when everyone else is using hydraulic or solenoid actuated valves. Each valve's camshaft will have a sensor that can leak coolant or oil into the wiring harness as well as a brazed steel tube assembly for high pressure oil and a control module that manages the valve that runs the cam that runs the valve.

There will be 32 timing chains and 16 balance shafts. On the back of the engine.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

They'll have the chains run around the perimeter of the engine but separated by a plastic chain guide that prevents them from coming into contact with one another. When your motor mounts age out at 24,000 km the chain guides will snap from rubbing against the underside of the hood on upshifts and start actuating the wrong valves.

Variable valve timing will be accomplished by varying the amount of oil that each chain is lubed with, by increasing friction marginally the total valve duration can be increased from slowing the chain down as it passes over the cam gear. This will require 32 individual high-pressure oil pumps with biodegradable plastic impellers. This is also how the start-stop system is implemented, with nominally-replaceable asbestos service brakes on each chain allowing the car to instantly stop and resume at red lights.

In order to maximize the amount of weight put over the front axle, Audi engineers will push the engine even further forward and split the radiator into four individual radiators, like a cow's stomach. Two of them will face directly into the front wheel wells in order to take advantage of the active cooling effect of driving into puddles. Each radiator will also have a variable geometry inlet and outlet to reduce cooling system pumping loss, actuated through a flimsy plastic cam that is moved by hobby-shop Chinese RC motors whose wiring harness is exposed in the wheelwell tantalizingly close to the control arms.

The interior will squeak at 72,000 km followed shortly by the C-pillar trim falling off the ceiling on cold days.