General Car Conversation 2024 - part 1
#4141
Lexus Champion
The I-6 is nice though since it's lazy, I don't think I've ever really had an engine I need to rev much to at least keep up with traffic. I do want to own a 2ZZ at some point though just to experience it
#4142
Lexus Champion
You could catch that engine sleeping down low, but overall it was a screamer. 0-60 in 4.9 seconds.
However I drove that IS about 4 times over 2 years. LS430 wayyyy slower but the engine is in a whole different universe in just about every way. That’s what I mean avout these downsized cars that are really fast but with unpleasant engines… you’re stuck with that engine every single time you hit the gas.
From torque to feel to sound to refinement, just no comparison. Slower V8 wins for 99.5% of driving.
Srtiker, a Ram V8 and 5.7 Sequoia are close acceleration wise according to published times. Just FWIW.
#4143
Lexus Champion
Yep.
You could catch that engine sleeping down low, but overall it was a screamer. 0-60 in 4.9 seconds.
However I drove that IS about 4 times over 2 years. LS430 wayyyy slower but the engine is in a whole different universe in just about every way. That’s what I mean avout these downsized cars that are really fast but with unpleasant engines… you’re stuck with that engine every single time you hit the gas.
From torque to feel to sound to refinement, just no comparison. Slower V8 wins for 99.5% of driving.
Srtiker, a Ram V8 and 5.7 Sequoia are close acceleration wise according to published times. Just FWIW.
You could catch that engine sleeping down low, but overall it was a screamer. 0-60 in 4.9 seconds.
However I drove that IS about 4 times over 2 years. LS430 wayyyy slower but the engine is in a whole different universe in just about every way. That’s what I mean avout these downsized cars that are really fast but with unpleasant engines… you’re stuck with that engine every single time you hit the gas.
From torque to feel to sound to refinement, just no comparison. Slower V8 wins for 99.5% of driving.
Srtiker, a Ram V8 and 5.7 Sequoia are close acceleration wise according to published times. Just FWIW.
Plus my first 5.7 ram was cammed and making about 470hp, I'm still mad it got rear ended since it was a limited edition.....even so the 2017 quad cab was still much better to drive than the sequoia ever was but lord that truck had issues to the point it got sold back at peak prices.
I just can't seem to be allowed to have a good ram other than my original 03 lol!
#4144
Lexus Fanatic
iTrader: (20)
b58 apparently has less than 400hp stock so it will take more than 'moderate' build (and expense) to 'smack a plaid around'.
same is even more true with an EV.
#4150
Lexus Champion
no one said it's 'unbeatable' - there's always a bigger dog. but takes highly modified and noisy polluting ICE cars in your videos to beat it.
b58 apparently has less than 400hp stock so it will take more than 'moderate' build (and expense) to 'smack a plaid around'.
same is even more true with an EV.
b58 apparently has less than 400hp stock so it will take more than 'moderate' build (and expense) to 'smack a plaid around'.
same is even more true with an EV.
If you to talk pollution then you should really look into it more before saying anything lol! EVs just export it to 3rd world locations where it's nicely out of sight out of mind so people can maintain their false sense of morality while absolutely maxing out human slavery and suffering.
#4155
Lead Lap
Then I must be the exception because I punch it often, maybe a little too much. What I rarely do is a pull from 0-80 because there really isn’t anywhere to do that, it’s mostly when I’m rolling above 60mph.