Why Americans build bad cars by Jeremy Clarkson

[hjr]

miss typed. 6L, not 8L

[bspot]

My car has over 100hp/l, it must be a JDM engine in there!!!!

I hear it was the same one in the toyota cavalier and it was tuned by Ferrari.

Blow hp/L out your ass. It means dick all... except for the fact that the Solstice GXP/Sky Redline are the greatest cars ever engineered due to their 130hp/L and 130ft-lbs/L.

USA USA USA

[benyl]

ummm...

Evo IX has 286hp and 2L. 143 hp/L
Evo FQ360 has 366hp and 2L. 183 hp/L

Let's see GM touch that action.

[bspot]

Originally posted by benyl
ummm...

Evo IX has 286hp and 2L. 143 hp/L
Evo FQ360 has 366hp and 2L. 183 hp/L

Let's see GM touch that action.

Americans build bad cars

HP/L has proven it.

Mitsubishi has won. They must have tuned my JDM cobalt engine, but they keep the best secrets for themselves. DAMN YOU JDM MITSUBISHI!! I DECLARE A JI-HAD ON YOU!

[arian_ma]

We were talking about N/A.

[BigMass]

Originally posted by benyl
ummm...

Evo IX has 286hp and 2L. 143 hp/L
Evo FQ360 has 366hp and 2L. 183 hp/L

Let's see GM touch that action.

you can't compare HP/L with a turbocharger. Heck in 1970 F1 engines were Turbo 1.5L 4cyl with 1500 HP. thats 1000hp/L beat that!

[benyl]

Production cars that are for sale today.

[andres_mt]

Originally posted by 962 kid


By your reasoning, top fuel dragsters, jet cars, hell even any supercar is not a feat of engineering think before you post

Also, did you conveniently skip what I said about the SRT4 and omni GLHS? The omni was very technologically advanced, maybe you could wikipedia that instead of the definition of engineering

Sorry to say but you should probably think before you post...first of all your pretty bad at proving a point. . I should have somewhat mentioned the omni and the SRT-4 which I did look up. For the SRT-4 nothing special really. As the omni GLHS, yes i'll agree that it was quite a feat of engineering. Now when I use the word engineering, I mean to say a practical and efficient use of scientific knowledge, just so I don't have to look it up for you..again.

[andres_mt]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat


BTW, if you need to look up "engineering" in the dictionary, you really shouldn't be debating the difference between "good" and "poor" engineering. Seriously.

No just saw that word as a word that can be interpreted many different ways. So I put the official definition of the word to make what I was saying clear. And the whole 'putting people in their place' way of talking just doesn't get to me man. Seriously.

[Gripenfelter]

There is a torrent for the rest of the video.

http://btjunkie.org/torrent?do=stat&...62b7f2bc1e3902

It was one of the most biased mocumentaries I've ever seen.

They write off the Z06 for road noise from the tires and then go ahead and do a race between a Roush Stang and the Exige. Last time I checked, the Exige was no princess either in the noise department.

Their 4x4 test was a joke. They took an AWD Escalade and a Hummer H2 against a Range Rover? They were driving the Escalade along just fine on a trail and then out of no where go up a steep hill and dig it into a hole. They never explained why the H2 "quit". Maybe the driver pissed himself?

Then the Mustang vs a horse race. That Mustang looked like a V6 being driven by a girl.

As for the XLR...their main gripe was the engine noise wasn't pleasant? Sounds fine to me. I agree about the cheap plastic interior feel but last time I checked Europe wasn't building carbon fibre interiors.

[Crymson]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!


.... someone think of the rotaries.

196 hp/l turbo
123, n/a

Sorry to interject -- and no rotary bashing allowed.

Continue with your dispute.

[iceburns288]

Uh but Grip, the Exige has the hp/l ratio that makes it a good car. The Z06 simply doesn't. That's why the Exige is ok.

[benyl]

exige has a good hp/weight ratio, not hp/l

[iceburns288]

I was kidding.

[iceburns288]

Additionally, anyone who thinks GM can't engineer something well should know that Ferrari sourced transmissions from them a while ago.