Sweet mother of god!
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Triumph Man said:
I don't see the problem. It's a luxury barge not a muscle car, and quite a lightweight one at that. Nought to 60 in 7.5 seconds sounds like plenty.Don't get me wrong, I like V8 excess as much as the next man, but I think it's a bit irrelevant in something like that. You can still get a 5-litre supercharged variant if that's what you want.
Well, if you are anything like me, who values the aural experience of a car, then the way things are going are very sad. Yes, the performance stats from BMW, Jaguar etc are very very good, but one word always comes into my head. Disappointment. I know that if I had one of these, yes, the interior is very nice and it's undeniably luxurious and well appointed, I would be forever disappointed that it didn't come with a nice sound. I won't say soundtrack or noise, because I know cars like these are well insulated. Likewise if I bought an F30 328i, I would be disappointed that it didn't have a lovely 6 cylinder sound as the 328i of yore.
What would be really clever is to try and engineer a 6 cylinder engine with 4 cylinder consumption and emissions. That's the challenge, that's what manufacturers should aspire to, not putting a turbocharger on a 4 cylinder because it seems the "easy" way to meet ever more stringent emissions targets. To me, it smacks of giving up.
What would be really clever is to try and engineer a 6 cylinder engine with 4 cylinder consumption and emissions. That's the challenge, that's what manufacturers should aspire to, not putting a turbocharger on a 4 cylinder because it seems the "easy" way to meet ever more stringent emissions targets. To me, it smacks of giving up.
Triumph Man said:
Well, if you are anything like me, who values the aural experience of a car, then the way things are going are very sad. Yes, the performance stats from BMW, Jaguar etc are very very good, but one word always comes into my head. Disappointment. I know that if I had one of these, yes, the interior is very nice and it's undeniably luxurious and well appointed, I would be forever disappointed that it didn't come with a nice sound. I won't say soundtrack or noise, because I know cars like these are well insulated. Likewise if I bought an F30 328i, I would be disappointed that it didn't have a lovely 6 cylinder sound as the 328i of yore.
What would be really clever is to try and engineer a 6 cylinder engine with 4 cylinder consumption and emissions. That's the challenge, that's what manufacturers should aspire to, not putting a turbocharger on a 4 cylinder because it seems the "easy" way to meet ever more stringent emissions targets. To me, it smacks of giving up.
You can always 'synthesise' a V12 noise in there What would be really clever is to try and engineer a 6 cylinder engine with 4 cylinder consumption and emissions. That's the challenge, that's what manufacturers should aspire to, not putting a turbocharger on a 4 cylinder because it seems the "easy" way to meet ever more stringent emissions targets. To me, it smacks of giving up.
Bisonhead said:
Triumph Man said:
Well, if you are anything like me, who values the aural experience of a car, then the way things are going are very sad. Yes, the performance stats from BMW, Jaguar etc are very very good, but one word always comes into my head. Disappointment. I know that if I had one of these, yes, the interior is very nice and it's undeniably luxurious and well appointed, I would be forever disappointed that it didn't come with a nice sound. I won't say soundtrack or noise, because I know cars like these are well insulated. Likewise if I bought an F30 328i, I would be disappointed that it didn't have a lovely 6 cylinder sound as the 328i of yore.
What would be really clever is to try and engineer a 6 cylinder engine with 4 cylinder consumption and emissions. That's the challenge, that's what manufacturers should aspire to, not putting a turbocharger on a 4 cylinder because it seems the "easy" way to meet ever more stringent emissions targets. To me, it smacks of giving up.
You can always 'synthesise' a V12 noise in there What would be really clever is to try and engineer a 6 cylinder engine with 4 cylinder consumption and emissions. That's the challenge, that's what manufacturers should aspire to, not putting a turbocharger on a 4 cylinder because it seems the "easy" way to meet ever more stringent emissions targets. To me, it smacks of giving up.
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