"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
01/20/2016 at 00:12 • Filed to: Confusion
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"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
01/20/2016 at 00:12 • Filed to: Confusion | 0
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Rolls-Royce, I know I will never be in the market for any of your overly-handmade, expensive-ass and bespoke land yachts with crazy premium hide interiors and whatnot. But what the hell kinda tachometer is this????
That has to be the most useless thing I’ve ever seen in a new car. Then again, I guess if you’re not driving yourself, or if it’s a throwback thing....I haz confuse.
CB
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 00:13 |
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Why do you need a tach if you’re not shifting yourself?
JGrabowMSt
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 00:15 |
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It’s not a tach. It’s literally a power meter, as it says. At idle, you have 100% power available to use. That needle will bounce around as you’re driving, and it’s a gauge for how much power you have on tap at any given moment.
It’s along the same lines as the 90's and early 00's analog MPG gauge...
DasWauto
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 00:16 |
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It is a throwback of sorts, older Rolls Royces had them as well, IIRC. The power reserve gauge is a more opulent way to express how much power you have and are using. The Veyron has one as well, naturally.
Edit - not quite the same but similar:
TheHondaBro
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 00:25 |
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That doesn’t look like a tach.
scoob
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 00:32 |
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So that every single conversation in a Rolls will go like this, I imagine.
Owner: “Mmm, what time is it?”
Driver: “Mmm, half past 1, sir.”
O: “Mmm, I’m going to be late to my golf match with Sir Bennington. Is it possible for us to progress there at a higher rate?”
D:“Mmm, there is... 75% power available.”
O:“Mmm, use all of it.”
D:“Mmm.”
O:“Mmm.”
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scoob
> DasWauto
01/20/2016 at 00:33 |
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That 1 is the best part. 1,000 and 1.
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DasWauto
> scoob
01/20/2016 at 00:56 |
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It really is, like the British version of this:
HammerheadFistpunch
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 01:01 |
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Tachometer - an instrament to measure the revolutions per unit time of a rotating shaft.
Pictured; not a tachometer.
Also I love the power reserve gauge concept
CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 01:18 |
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How do they measure it? Do they actually have strain gauges to actually calculate the HP output? Is it wheel HP or crank HP? SO MANY QUESTIONS
this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> scoob
01/20/2016 at 01:19 |
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VW lives by spinal tap
DrJohannVegas
> DasWauto
01/20/2016 at 01:38 |
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I DECLARE WAR ON YOUUUUUUUUUU
Svart Smart, traded in his Smart
> CB
01/20/2016 at 03:00 |
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Sometimes I just want to know, numerically, what my engine is up to.
TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 04:13 |
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Because a tachometer is just so vulgar.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 04:20 |
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I truly, madly, deeply hope that on Wraiths that gauge goes to 150%, in tribute to the original “adequate, plus fifty percent” quoted PowerPC the Turbo cars.
Or at least to 110% in tribute to Spinal Tap.
In fact, I have decided right now that when I win the lottery and buy my bespoke Roller, it will.
gingabloke
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 05:51 |
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You “just noticed” something which most reviews and roadtests pointed out in 2003.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 06:20 |
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Power reserve gauge. I believe it’s supposed to be a throwback to their aircraft engine days. A sort of classier, more subtle version of Saab’s advertising style.
505 - morphine not found
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 07:25 |
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The thing is though: simply flooring a Roller will not get you to 0%.
And yes, that was from first-hand experience.
The question is this: as RR vehicles have governed top speed, can you ever see 0% on that?
Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> DasWauto
01/20/2016 at 08:23 |
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What is this gif from? It’s the funniest thing in the history of funny things.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
01/20/2016 at 08:35 |
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It’s not a tachometer, it’s far more opulent than that and I love it.
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DasWauto
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
01/20/2016 at 09:53 |
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Old-Busted-Hotness
> CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/20/2016 at 14:27 |
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Probably calculated from RPM and throttle position.