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Neptr posted:Front wheels are wider than the rear wheels? It's sort of the opposite weight distribution of the deltawing but with the same principles in mind. It's all about low drag and efficiency. 
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Powershift posted:this is just a ploy to butter people up for the FWD 370z successor. Toronado by Nissan.
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Powershift posted:this is just a ploy to butter people up for the FWD 370z successor. In the article they mentioned how it's front engined TTv6 and AWD so they are calling it the GTR. I wonder if that is how it happened to be with their "clean sheet" race car design, or if someone said they should make a GTR-based LMS car and that's what they came up with. http://www.racer.com/wec-le-mans/item/113077-pruett-inside-the-nissan-gt-r-lm-nismo-lmp1-program?showall The picture of the rear of the car really shows what they were going for. I think it's pretty cool but I doubt they will really be able to compete with someone like audi who has been doing this for so long.
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HP Artsandcrafts posted:It's sort of the opposite weight distribution of the deltawing but with the same principles in mind. It's all about low drag and efficiency. I'm not quite sure if I see it that way -- the Deltawing used the long wheelbase, rearward COG, and strong aero package to push the tiny front tires into the ground so they could get the grip of a wide tire without the mass. I don't think this LMP1 car is trying to do the same thing but opposite - it doesn't need lots of rear grip, it needs lots of grip in the front. In that sense it makes sense to use less tire in the rear and make up for it with aero, but the demands on the front tires are astronomical compared to what the DW had to do with the rear. The DW had 350hp and used Indy Light front tires in the rear, this will have 1200hp and I can't imagine that the regulations will allow a larger front tire than what's already on a conventional LMP1 car.
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He's exceeded the original in every metric, including how dated it will look twenty years from now.
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Feb 7, 2015 07:34
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I especially appreciate the fire suppression systems behind each wheel. Boomerjinks, get your crew on this, stat.
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Rocket Bunny Delorean
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Raluek posted:Pantera, I think. Yeah its a pantera.
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One of my lifelong dreams is to drive a Pantera while listening to Pantera.
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Are we doing this? I guess we're doing this.   that last one's a Mangusta 
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Panteras look so awesome. Shame they were shoddily built & had aerodynamics that generated upforce. Jay's Garage had a pretty cool bit on one not too long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2Unce43wI
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jamal posted:In the article they mentioned how it's front engined TTv6 and AWD so they are calling it the GTR. I wonder if that is how it happened to be with their "clean sheet" race car design, or if someone said they should make a GTR-based LMS car and that's what they came up with. I'm curious as hell to see how it actually performs compared to the conventional LMP1s. They seem to think that they found a lot of aero efficiency with their design that just isn't possible in a mid engine car. Either way, it should be really wild to see this compete with the Audis (which as I recall weren't as fast but more reliable than their competitors), the Toyotas and the Porsches. It would be really crazy if they were actually able to win at Le Mans with something so unorthodox, especially to see how the other manufacturers react!
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The thing I love about the Pantera is the side profile is exactly what I'd doodle in books as a kid, without ever knowingly having seen one. I'm sure I must have seen the shape somewhere but for years and years I had no idea the real thing existed. 
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AlmightyPants posted:I'm curious as hell to see how it actually performs compared to the conventional LMP1s. They seem to think that they found a lot of aero efficiency with their design that just isn't possible in a mid engine car. Either way, it should be really wild to see this compete with the Audis (which as I recall weren't as fast but more reliable than their competitors), the Toyotas and the Porsches. It would be really crazy if they were actually able to win at Le Mans with something so unorthodox, especially to see how the other manufacturers react! Yeah from looking at it, it seems more aerodynamically efficient than anything else, and my aero engineer friend loves what he's seen. Being faster than the established lmp1 teams is a whole other thing though.
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jammyozzy posted:The thing I love about the Pantera is the side profile is exactly what I'd doodle in books as a kid, without ever knowingly having seen one. I'm sure I must have seen the shape somewhere but for years and years I had no idea the real thing existed. Thing I love about the pantera is it's a poor mans version of a GT40, and more streetable at that. I don't really ever think of a pantera, but when I think of a GT40, then I think how much more attainable for many a pantera would be.
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If you're going to do an updated Back to the Future poster, I'd expect nothing less than a Ford Winstar. 
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spleen merchant posted:Apparently Marty McFly is about 4ft tall. I mean, Michael J. Fox is a pretty small dude, but yeah somebody hosed up their proportions a bit there.
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I'm the random adjustable cam gears on the rear quarter, the exhaust pipe that gets routed forward past the rear axle, the blue lights, and the "what the flux" written on the cooling exhaust ports.
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I would watch the gently caress out of a Tokyo drift reboot of bttf and if you say you wouldn't you're either lying or terrible.
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Cakefool posted:I would watch the gently caress out of a Tokyo drift reboot of bttf and if you say you wouldn't you're either lying or terrible. Considering 90% of the movies revolve around the actual time machine being completely unusable, I'm not sure how that would work.
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xzzy posted:Considering 90% of the movies revolve around the actual time machine being completely unusable, I'm not sure how that would work. Gotta overnight some flux capacitors from Japan.
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xzzy posted:Considering 90% of the movies revolve around the actual time machine being completely unusable, I'm not sure how that would work. The time machine doesn't, run on everything, it runs on uranium. You have to win a street race+drift event around the area of Fukushima to win some on the black market.
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Octopus Magic posted:I'm the random adjustable cam gears on the rear quarter, the exhaust pipe that gets routed forward past the rear axle, the blue lights, and the "what the flux" written on the cooling exhaust ports. Pretty sure that's not an exhaust, it's an air intake for cooling the nuclear reactor.
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I thought they were speakers instead of gears. "what the flux" is the name of the image the person created.  more from the same artist
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The artist certainly has a hardon for tweels and illogical placed aero. I'm drunk enough to be okay with that. And I thought that last one was a V40 for a moment there.
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I see we're reaching 400 pages soon. I better see some 400 big blocks.
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jamal posted:In the article they mentioned how it's front engined TTv6 and AWD so they are calling it the GTR. I wonder if that is how it happened to be with their "clean sheet" race car design, or if someone said they should make a GTR-based LMS car and that's what they came up with. Darren Cox from Nissan's explanation goes something like "Audi have been doing this for 10 years, if we copied Audi it would take 10 years to catch up. So we're trying something completely different." We won't really know whether it works or not until next year though; I can't imagine this year will be more than a learning year for the GT-R LM.
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drgitlin posted:Darren Cox from Nissan's explanation goes something like "Audi have been doing this for 10 years, if we copied Audi it would take 10 years to catch up. So we're trying something completely different." We won't really know whether it works or not until next year though; I can't imagine this year will be more than a learning year for the GT-R LM. Be awesome if it smashes the field though.
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Wasabi the J posted:Be awesome if it smashes the field though. The deltawing was doing really well until it got smashed up, the narrow nose resulted in a driver being unable to see him and he got clipped into a wall. So yeah Nissan has shown they can do okay with crazy ideas, this new one has promise too.
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xzzy posted:The deltawing was doing really well until it got smashed up, the narrow nose resulted in a driver being unable to see him and he got clipped into a wall. Except for the fact that they can't keep a gearbox from exploding.
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More Pantera: Click for a whole gallery.
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screenwritersblues posted:I see we're reaching 400 pages soon. I better see some 400 big blocks. The 400 is a small block, though. Unless you mean the Ford? 'Cause that's kind of in between a small and big block.
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