I dont think you understand my criticism. A 5.9L/500hp is bad but a 800hp/9.4L engine is good? Granted big block V8's wont have the revs to produce the power for their displacement, but that example was still a $20K engine. Ive seen articles on 1000hp NA big blocks for the record. If you want to discredit the AM, use that as an example.
Aston Martin should do better yes but what are their competitors doing? Their current engine is also the product, crudely speaking, of 2 Ford V6's stuck together and tarted up.
I am the Stig
HP/Litre is a joke measurement. You have to consider that block max's out at 5800 (the Aston Goes to, I believe 8K, I could be wrong though), while the torque is 600FT-LBS as low as Idle, and 650 for a 1200RPM Range. At Idle it has more torque than the 1 Million quid supercar. And then you have to consider thats on a carb and only 2 Valves per cylinder.
It is in stock trim a 10 second engine. If you buy the Race fuel alternative, its 9 seconds easy. Pour 10K in mods (new heads, cams, pistons, etc), you've got an 8 second car. For 30K, you will outrace a One-77 on the 1/4 mile.
Not that I don't think its necessarily better. I mean, the One-77s V12 is mounted 200MMs behind the front axle. It has a pushrod suspension. Its handling is supposed to be brilliant because of this. No cast iron Big Block camaro could hang with a One-77 on a circuit, ever, I'll admit.
"Don't think your time on bad things
Just float your little mind around"
Jimi Hendrix
Ahh. Eh. You see tuned Ferrari's and Lambos making more power with no one making that comment. It's not as bad as people think. A more powerfull big block in a heavier car (in this instance at any rate) still got better mileage than a Murcie during a club cruise. Well, marginally better. A race carb that just dumps fuel in may not be the best way to go about it, though.
Oh, I see. After years of loose emissions regs you finally pass us up and now you get snobby about it?
That's ok bud, I got your back. It's how I tell it.
Big cities suck
"Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she'll be more desirable to her next boyfriend." -Napolis
It seems to me that Europeans are more likely to hold this view than Americans though.
The Dutch even have a rabidly anti-immigration racist supporting their minority government! Sarkozy has shipped out tons of Roma, and Britain has the fairly popular BNP!
Wooo! So much for Europeans calling Americans hicks!
EDIT: And that's just Western Europe! Let's not even get into the East!
Also, Merkel said multiculturalism has failed!
What a continent!
Left-wing European superiority complex failure!
Please don't mention our Mr B.
I've heard fair too much from him. He is not even funny anymore...
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I know surprisingly little about Italian politics. British, German, Spanish, Dutch, French - I know to some degree about these countries.
I hear bad things about him though.
I always assumed that no matter how much the politicians in charge gesticulate wildly and shit out crazy ideas, nobody will ever actually govern the Italians.
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
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