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By ePER we can only find 4C MY18. By the way, what Alfa tests?
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Jacky Stewart approves also. I am reading his book now, even it was written in 1986, the driving principles and physics of car behavior haven changed through years.
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Understeer happens when person does not know how to find right trajectory or overspeeding. Nothing wrong with a car if it undresteers. It is driver mistake. P.S. Did QV understeer when Francia drove it while record run?
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When I see all that drifting photo I am thinking about stupidity of the journalists. Have anyone seen even one little attempt of Fabio Francia to drift while Nurburgring run?
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By my knowledge he had never designed any car at Alfa or FIAT http://www.walterdesilva.com/
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What could be if Alfa did not not kill Autodelta
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What is 1.5 engine? By ePer it was canceled
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It is pretty interesting to know. How many full "throttle" starts Tesla can do till uncharging battery? 3 or 5? And then it will stay for 6 hours on charge. How many circles at Monza can this Tesla do and what will be the time? Electric cars are pretty stupid at modern level of battery technology, and I am pretty sure they will never be popular, the reason is that we have Lithium supplies for 70 years only. However we have oil (only oil without gas) for 400 years.
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Who is F. Francia?
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I can tell about Canada. People without engineering background believe the heavier a car the more safe it is. Another reason, women like to drive big cars, to seat high above the road. Again, they feel more safe. And people believe that 4WD system is more stable and more safe. And the size matters - the bigger is saloon, the more comfortable to travel. And the last reason, I think the most important. People nowadays are higher, fatter and heavier than even 10 years ago. Bigger customers need bigger cars.
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I think it is just one of the marketing crap. Will believe in this technology only when it appears on market. According to russian Autoreview, Infinity copied Soviet technology designed by NAMI https://autoreview.ru/articles/know-how/Unique Daimler tried to use NAMI technology in 2002-03. NAMI and Germans built several engines based on OM611 and M111. Russian technology allowed to change compression ratio from 7.5 to 14. However after tests both companies figured out that power increased up to 20% when ratio changed from 7.5 to 10. And next increasing of ratio from 10 to 14 boosted power up to 3.5% only. So, do not expect the miracle
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May be I have stupid questions. Can any modern "autopilot" car use auto mode without data reception? Is someone tried to use Tesla/Mercedes (whatever brand) "auto" mode in winter (real winter) time? Can cars with "autopilot" be driven by themselves without satellite reception (underground parking, mountains or in downtown of any city with skyscrapers) Why autopilot has not been used yet on very expensive moving devices (trains, mining trucks) where the cost of the most modern very expensive equipment can be returned fast?
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http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/oee/pdf/transportation/tools/fuelratings/Model Year 2016 Vehicle Tables.pdf http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/fcr-rcf/public/index-e.cfm I think last year Canada implemented new consumption homologation cycle. I can say it is even more hard than real life driving. For Dart 1.4 Turbo declared city consumption is 8.6 l/100km, however my best real life result was 6.8 l/100 and average is 7.1. P.S. I found this link is interesting, consumption of EV and hybrid cars. For instance BMW i3 with range extender consumes on a highway more fuel than Dart. The driving range of electric cars is ridiculously small. The best of them, Tesla S90D, has 473 km of driving range and requres 12 hours charging cycle. It means that 1300 km trip can last at least 48 hours in the best scenario, instead of 11-13 hours by driving petrolium or diesel vehicle. http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/tools/fuelratings/atv-2016.cfm
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I am just wondering, why do not declare 5000 HP? It is just a concept, they need marketing and investments. P.S. So funny to see Tesla drivers in real life, somewhere in the mountains, without any services for 160-180 km around (I mean without electricity, without gas stations, without any village). They drive no more than 70 km/h and trucks passes them on 130 km/h. I think we will not see serious touring electric car in the nearest (15-20 years) future
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Camry and Malibu are bigger and much simple cars. They are the cars for everyday people, like Panda or Punto in Italy. 200 is a car with a style and technology, middle way to premium. Buyers of Camry and Malibu do not know about 200. This car is out of their paradigm. And another one. Toyota and Chevrolet offer very very good financial - 0% credit up to 72 months or money back (till 3000 dollars) options. Plus one of the most popular TV show (Ellen) advertises Malibu every single day. Even now, during Olimpic Games, every 15 minutes, Chevrolet is advertising full line of cars as JD Power winners. Chrysler is advertising Pacifica only.
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Unlike of SUV, wagons in US/Canada are symbol of elegant sports car. Here wagons are cars for men only who live real active life. The most interesting, unless poor sales, wagons in North America are sold by premium brands only. BMW (3 serie Touring), Mercedes (E-Class Wagon and E 63 S AMG 4Matic) and Audi A4 Allroad. And near premium (by the price) Subaru Legacy Outback So, the only one direct competitor in North America is 3 series Touring
