longhorn
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FYI,
http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=892746
My only concern is the mentioned carbon fibre drive shaft...........ARE YOU KIDDING ME? thats going to be on expensive component to replace. Did not know CF could take that kind of punishment.
3306 pounds curb weight
I have always stated this is the segment Honda should go after with the S2000 replacement. Make it a coupe or sedan (sell more units as a sedan),make it light, sceaming motor and go M hunting. It would have made the accountants happy compared to a limited edition soft top.
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jshaw
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Infinity g37 and 350z use CF driveshaft. So does the 2G acura RL/4G honda legend.
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K22A
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They've been carbon shafts for more than a decade. Best bit is that it shatters and doesn't harpoon or mince your behind when it breaks. Or so the story goes. Depends on engineering obviously.
on a side note I suspect nsx engine to be very similar. Just folded in half
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Chris David
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Looks like another winner from BMW. Hard to argue with more power, and less weight.
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PhrozeDeuce
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Long life the NA engine which is no more at BMW....shame.
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Nick GravesX
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jshaw wrote:
Infinity g37 and 350z use CF driveshaft. So does the 2G acura RL/4G honda legend.
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And the S2000.
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Chris David
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PhrozeDeuce wrote:
Long life the NA engine which is no more at BMW....shame.
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Yeah, it's a bit sad, but look at the jump in torque. Also, redline is still a respectable 7300. The turbo wouldn't keep me from buying one if I had eighty grand laying around.
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GoFaster
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longhorn wrote:
I have always stated this is the segment Honda should go after with the S2000 replacement. Make it a coupe or sedan (sell more units as a sedan),make it light, sceaming motor and go M hunting. It would have made the accountants happy compared to a limited edition soft top.
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I completely agree. The market for 2 seaters is really small, and there is more money to be made making sports sedan/coupes. To me the 3 Series is the car to beat. That is where manufactures should prove their abilities, not sports cars. BMWs get really expensive really quickly, and I mean 50% over base price by just checking off a couple of option boxes. Honda should own that market, especially with IMO their superior build the cars LOADED at a good price, instead of nearly custom built like BMW which makes WWW shopping impossible.
Anything bigger than the Civic needs to be RWD to get those hundreds and hundreds of pounds off the nose. Honda needs to get in the game and build something fun, something, anything.
The ILX should have been the Euro Civic (which would have been priced as a true entry point for Gen-Y and with the hatch utility you need when setting up apartments/houses) and that development money should have been spent making the TSX RWD. The RLX should NEVER have been made, and same goes for the 500 NSX per year that will do nothing for the brand.
Acura should be:
Euro Civic hatch
TSX RWD
TLX SH-AWD with better 50/50 balance as a goal
RDX
RDX-Type S - SH-AWD
MDX
That's it.
BTW - I am loving tailgates coming back. Range Rover and X5 have them, not sure who else. Would have that for sure on SUVs.
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cksi1372
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Chris David wrote:
PhrozeDeuce wrote:
Long life the NA engine which is no more at BMW....shame.
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Yeah, it's a bit sad, but look at the jump in torque. Also, redline is still a respectable 7300. The turbo wouldn't keep me from buying one if I had eighty grand laying around.
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Yeah, but the outgoing M3 honkin NA V8 is just so smooth compared to my turbo N55 335. Being my first turbo, I now understand lag...ha, even with a software update supposedly to cure it. The new M3 is a bi-turbo and it looks like they've addressed any lag issue from the videos.
That said, the new M3 looks pretty awesome to me, but is going to be pretty $$$...I bet Competition Package pushes $90k...ouch. Every since driving a 95 M3, I wanted one, but M3 getting well out of my price range now. Perhaps an M2 will appear and be more reasonable...or I'm sure we will see Acura develop a competitor in this space soon... hehe.
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owequitit
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cksi1372 wrote:
Chris David wrote:
PhrozeDeuce wrote:
Long life the NA engine which is no more at BMW....shame.
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Yeah, it's a bit sad, but look at the jump in torque. Also, redline is still a respectable 7300. The turbo wouldn't keep me from buying one if I had eighty grand laying around.
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Yeah, but the outgoing M3 honkin NA V8 is just so smooth compared to my turbo N55 335. Being my first turbo, I now understand lag...ha, even with a software update supposedly to cure it. The new M3 is a bi-turbo and it looks like they've addressed any lag issue from the videos.
That said, the new M3 looks pretty awesome to me, but is going to be pretty $$$...I bet Competition Package pushes $90k...ouch. Every since driving a 95 M3, I wanted one, but M3 getting well out of my price range now. Perhaps an M2 will appear and be more reasonable...or I'm sure we will see Acura develop a competitor in this space soon... hehe.
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I am curious if the switch back to TT, plus all of the other changes to the engine will finally excise the turbo characteristics.
I love the way it looks, and while I am sure they still fine tuning the details, it sounds pretty sporty in comparison to some of their recent turbo engines.
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6SPDTL
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longhorn wrote:
FYI,
http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=892746
My only concern is the mentioned carbon fibre drive shaft...........ARE YOU KIDDING ME? thats going to be on expensive component to replace. Did not know CF could take that kind of punishment.
3306 pounds curb weight
I have always stated this is the segment Honda should go after with the S2000 replacement. Make it a coupe or sedan (sell more units as a sedan),make it light, sceaming motor and go M hunting. It would have made the accountants happy compared to a limited edition soft top.
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My RL had a carbon fiber drive shaft..... Not a big deal.
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Nick GravesX
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owequitit wrote:
cksi1372 wrote:
Chris David wrote:
PhrozeDeuce wrote:
Long life the NA engine which is no more at BMW....shame.
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Yeah, it's a bit sad, but look at the jump in torque. Also, redline is still a respectable 7300. The turbo wouldn't keep me from buying one if I had eighty grand laying around.
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Yeah, but the outgoing M3 honkin NA V8 is just so smooth compared to my turbo N55 335. Being my first turbo, I now understand lag...ha, even with a software update supposedly to cure it. The new M3 is a bi-turbo and it looks like they've addressed any lag issue from the videos.
That said, the new M3 looks pretty awesome to me, but is going to be pretty $$$...I bet Competition Package pushes $90k...ouch. Every since driving a 95 M3, I wanted one, but M3 getting well out of my price range now. Perhaps an M2 will appear and be more reasonable...or I'm sure we will see Acura develop a competitor in this space soon... hehe.
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I am curious if the switch back to TT, plus all of the other changes to the engine will finally excise the turbo characteristics.
I love the way it looks, and while I am sure they still fine tuning the details, it sounds pretty sporty in comparison to some of their recent turbo engines.
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They keep claiming to have cured lag, but it's the actual throttle response which is important; that instant, linear change to throttle position which still makes good NA engines great. That's before you go to individual throttle bodies, which M engines used to have...
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White98LS
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Nick GravesX wrote:
jshaw wrote:
Infinity g37 and 350z use CF driveshaft. So does the 2G acura RL/4G honda legend.
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And the S2000.
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No it doesn't...
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