RE: Volkswagen I.D. R shatters FoS electric car record

[E65Ross]

Talksteer said:

I reference you back to my long rambling post on technology, currently electric vehicles are essentially fitting electric propulsion into ICE platforms. The IDR was actually based on an existing chassis.

Eventually electric propulsion will allow you to do things radically different compared to an ICE car, things like where the driver sits, how many wheels it has, how it is steered are all back up for grabs.

I can't see the way it's steered being any different, and I can't see how changing the drivetrain would alter that? Where the driver sits is very unlikely to change due to road layouts and, again, I don't see how the drivetrain would alter this. We've had engines in the front, middle, and back of cars and we still sit in the same place. There have even been cars where we sit in the middle. So unless we sit in the back I can't see how or why that might change. Same again for how many wheels it has.

Come to think of it, having read your post..... I may be due a whoosh parrot?

[Ahonen]

Plug Life said:

sege said:

That Nio is seriously beautiful. Such a shame it is an EV and not packing a screaming naturally aspirated V12.

Why would they ruin it with ICE crap?

Largely to annoy you.

[markcoznottz]

Ahonen said:

markcoznottz said:

Why is the NIO on slicks? It takes away from its achievement.

It was probably on slicks to go faster. It was on slicks at the 'Ring, too.

Goodwood is well suited to electric vehicles, as said. Although fast at the 'Ring it was well over a minute slower than the 919. I suspect that an average lap time over 3 laps would have seen a slightly larger gap between the cars...

Go faster? Il say. But it begs the question why in a supposed road car. It might be the case that the suspension was optimised for those tyres. Which stretches the credibility of it being a road car. It clouds the issue a lot, remember when pagani used slicks disguised as road legal tyres on its top gear lap.

[LotusOmega375D]

RE: Volkswagen I.D. R significantly slower at FoS than obsolete 20 year-old F1 car with rookie test driver

Perhaps that's a better headline?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6oJGiX-Ds

It's not as if any F1 car is suited to going flat-out on Lord March's bumpy driveway either, especially when compared to those hill climb specials.