This I would buy and drive like a mofo
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That is only because now Chevy put a new much more powerful LT4 in the Z06. The LS9 is no longer the top engine, so it gets handed down the line rather than phased out. The new Z06 is even faster than the current ZR1. Never will a company offer their most powerful engine in anything other than their flagship car. I highly doubt Nissan is going to phase out the VR38 any time soon. Each year they just slap on a bigger turbo and retune.
More VRs wouldnt lower production costs since they are hand built by only specially trained employees (less than 20 total). To automate would be very expensive and lower quality, hurting their pride and joy GT-R. Much easier to just slap a turbo on already much cheaper mass produced VQ.
More VRs wouldnt lower production costs since they are hand built by only specially trained employees (less than 20 total). To automate would be very expensive and lower quality, hurting their pride and joy GT-R. Much easier to just slap a turbo on already much cheaper mass produced VQ.
Honestly Nissan has to many versions of their current V6, VQ23, 25, 35 & 40DE, VQ25 & 35HR, VQ37VHR and the VR38DETT, they could easily drop production of the entire DE line and fit HR's in all those models, re-tool to mass produce the VR and hand build whatever their next big thing is, none of us have a clue what they'll do. The VQDE has been in production for 20 years, the end must be pretty close.
The exagerated torque numbers would lead me to believe it's a hybrid, the proposed Q50 hybrid is rated at 359hp and 403lbft
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This would be an amazing flagship car for Infiniti. But I see two huge problems.
First 500hp and 600lb/ft of torque claim is pure BS. There is no way Inifniti will put out a VQ that makes more power than their VR.
Second is price. Already a fully loaded Q50S comes in at 55k. The M3 sedan is only 62k with 431 HP / 406 TQ with a much better tranny than Q50. The only way a Q50 can compete with a M3 is to be cheaper. Infiniti will have to sell this beast for around 60k to have a chance.
First 500hp and 600lb/ft of torque claim is pure BS. There is no way Inifniti will put out a VQ that makes more power than their VR.
Second is price. Already a fully loaded Q50S comes in at 55k. The M3 sedan is only 62k with 431 HP / 406 TQ with a much better tranny than Q50. The only way a Q50 can compete with a M3 is to be cheaper. Infiniti will have to sell this beast for around 60k to have a chance.
3.8 TT GT-R motor 560hp 443 ftlbs torque 0-60 under 4 sec 7 sp auto AWD
^^ Like I said, the HP/TQ numbers were BS. Also the Eau Rogue is no different than the Juke-R with GTR motor acouple years ago. Just a concept car for publicity, it will never go into produciton.
They will have to dummy down the electrics quite a bit to get the price down. $75k is what I'd think it would have to be at the max
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Even if they put the GTR engine in doesn't mean it's gonna compete with it.
0-60mph time of under 4 seconds, GT-R does it in under 3 seconds.
Top speed of 180mph, 2014 GT-R is 196mph.
0-60mph time of under 4 seconds, GT-R does it in under 3 seconds.
Top speed of 180mph, 2014 GT-R is 196mph.
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Unless the company is Mazda.
I always thought it was funny that the Mx-5 and Rx-8 were among the slowest and least powerful in the lineup.... and those are the supposed "performance" cars.
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If they actually built this car with a GTR drivetrain, there's no reason to believe it would be much slower. They'd probably weigh about the same. Unless it didn't get launch control, should be really close.
Yeah, its almost like their series runs backward. The fastest is the MS3, then MS6 then Rx-8. I never "got" that..
I never understood Mazda. They have one f*cked up line up.
It's because of their insistence of trying to make the Rotary viable. They can't turbo it w/o beating up the emissions and ruining the reliability. They could put their turbo 4 cylinder and it would be much faster. For a halo car, it should be faster but Mazda favors handling over power in the RX series.
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