by "RightFootDown" (rightfootdown)
Published 03/21/2017 at 10:19
by "RightFootDown" (rightfootdown)
Published 03/21/2017 at 10:19
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The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio made landfall earlier this year and and has laid waste to all competitors in it’s class. It’s a lightweight (sort of) sport sedan packing a 2.9 liter twin-turbo V6 producing 505 horsepower and sends all 443 lbs ft of torque through a ZF 8-speed automatic to the rear wheels. The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio can be optioned with carbon ceramic brakes, carbon bucket seats. It’s comfortable. It’s fast. And the car is a damn cheater.
Full story in the link below. Do you agree?
I can’t think of any other manufacturer that’s pulled something like this.
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"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
03/21/2017 at 10:54, STARS: 2
repeat after me: “tires are the ONLY part of the car that touches the road in normal operation”. Alfa didn’t cheat, so much as just knew that they needed to do everything they could to win. Tests of the non-Quad Giulias, wearing sane street tires indicate that is still an EXCELLENT chassis and nothing to be sneezed at.... Is the Fiesta ST (which I own) cheating because it comes with 150 UTQG-rated tires? Let me tell you, those factory Bridgestone RE-050s are sticky as hell! they also hydroplane at the drop of a hat, and become iron-hard at ambient temperatures below 40 degrees F, making driving them on a cold, spring morning akin to driving on bowling balls. Don’e even LOOK at snow with the RE-050s mounted.
"random001" (random001)
03/21/2017 at 11:03, STARS: 0
This car looked at the snow. Just looked.
"BREADwagon" (BREADwagon)
03/21/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 1
I really dislike the Eagle F1s that came with my FocuST. Granted they are pretty inexpensive, but they wear super fast (corded after 20,000 miles) and after the first 32nd is worn away, the wet grip disappears....forget about driving in the snow. After a slight dusting, I couldn’t even make it out of a spot because it was slightly banked to a street drain....the car just kept sliding into it. I think the owner manual says, verbatim: “do not drive with these tires under 40 degrees, because you will die.”
But with snow tires....OOOOO WEEE, grip for days! I could pull a truck out of a ditch if I wanted to.
Point being, tires aren’t cheating, but it should be taken into account when people are talking about driving dynamics or performance metrics.
"Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever" (superchan7)
05/19/2017 at 16:42, STARS: 0
At 500+ hp, putting semi-track tires on a top-shelf sports sedan is not as much of a cheat call as putting PS Cup tires on a Focus RS.
While they do magic with cornering Gs and lap times, it’s important to remember what tires do not do: enhance the sensory feedback of a car. The Giulia seems to deliver that far better than the segment benchmark M3, and I think that’s all in the philosophy behind the car’s chassis and suspension design.