Well I need to keep my drivers license, and also my tired old body wants a reasonably good ride after abusing it these past 52 years.
Some mornings it is a challenge just getting out of bed, and putting clothes on lol
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Well I need to keep my drivers license, and also my tired old body wants a reasonably good ride after abusing it these past 52 years.
Some mornings it is a challenge just getting out of bed, and putting clothes on lol
Dont be fooled - you can choke any engine. You've probably never heard an uncorked viper engine. Most haven't.
Put a real exhaust on a viper engine (like in my avatar) and it's one of the most wicked things you've ever heard - a cross between a 500 CI BBC and a Ferrari.
This engine makes a naturally aspirated 700HP on pump gas and idles at 750 RPM. It's alsolutely wicked.
Ford was my go to pickup and sometimes car brand for a long time, but they lost my business.
As my personal pickup truck is now a ram, and as my company pickups age out, they will also be replaced by rams, half of them already have.
Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man, who was way ahead of his time.
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It's the exhaust manifold runner setup. It's a bad ass car that just doesn't make the greatest noise. There's just not a single V10 performance car sound I can think of that I would choose to put below it, though the Viper would likely near the top of the list of the cars I would buy with V10s. I'm still a sucker for the first gen RT/10. Sure the later ones are better performers, but that's not what my goal would be with this car.
I'll add my go to favorite sounding engine stock is and likely always will be the Aston Martin V12. I know it's just a couple of Ford V6s, but I can't think of a single part of the rev range it doesn't sound beautiful at. I got passed by a Vanquish on the highway yesterday as I was taking the offramp and got to hear it in all it's glory. I hadn't seen an Aston in person in probably 5 years.
One of my absolute favorite engines other than a well tuned LT or LS is the 7.3 amg used in the Pagani Zonda. With the titanium Exhaust and less restrictive mufflers it absolutely screams. Tiff Nedel got to take the Zonda R out for a spin a few years ago and you could see him smiling through his helmet.
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Diesel or natural gas?
Didn't parts of Europe ban certain types of cars in major cities? I mean like you describe possible limitations on driving. It might have been specifically parts of the UK, but I recall it had something to do with new supercars having hybrid systems that will operate in EV only to keep sound levels down in city areas. I liked that idea for leaving home without waking the neighbors, but I didn't have that in Vegas. Everyone got to hear the only mildly restricted LS1 GTO fire up at 5:30am every morning and the deepest cul de sac of the community. I guess that means that Monaros did get the opportunity to wake people sleeping in America too.
My current neighbors across the street are loud AF with their trucks. I need my GTI to be louder to compete.
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Here's what BMW has within 250km of me:
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Will add that the i4 M50 is probably about the only EV I could see myself buying at this point (though I haven't driven the 5-series version). My time behind the wheel had me loving it compared to all the others I've driven (and owned).
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I have not! I did look at one, but the cost of entry was too rich for my blood. I spent too much on my e-tron (more than the i4 M50) and I wouldn't make that mistake again. A used 2020 4S on Auto Trader is $124K, so $40K more than the 2022 BMW and the BMW has 120HP more. Of course the bimmer isn't a Porsche, but $40K is 40K.
Music to the ears like this?Didn't parts of Europe ban certain types of cars in major cities? I mean like you describe possible limitations on driving. It might have been specifically parts of the UK, but I recall it had something to do with new supercars having hybrid systems that will operate in EV only to keep sound levels down in city areas. I liked that idea for leaving home without waking the neighbors, but I didn't have that in Vegas. Everyone got to hear the only mildly restricted LS1 GTO fire up at 5:30am every morning and the deepest cul de sac of the community. I guess that means that Monaros did get the opportunity to wake people sleeping in America too.
My current neighbors across the street are loud AF with their trucks. I need my GTI to be louder to compete.
I was heading that direction too before I left that company.
When you run a fleet of over 100 trucks, you get real data. Other than the exhaust manifold issues, our RAM trucks were the least expensive to operate, though the V8 F150’s were not far off. ECO Boost trucks were a nightmare in cost to maintain, and the fuel savings was negligible at best.
I even convinced a Chevy guy that RAM was better based on my data that showed Chevy trucks are not up to farm work and require thousands in maintenance compared to Ford and RAM. He bought a RAM and has been happy with it.
But, RAM’s rust more quickly than any truck out there. That’s my only complaint.
My rams have been SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER than the fords.
I see Polestar cars every day now. Until recently I saw an occasional one.
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I don’t even have to play the video - one just like that car would wait until early Saturday - no traffic - and just blast it between the tall buildings in MEL (apartment building was 88 floors) - so plenty to bounce sound off of