Yeah, the Continental GT is the money maker.

Oh right, his is the third gen huh?

It would be a crime if he didn't.

After watching a couple of reviews of that I'm pretty sold on it actually being all around awesome, and much better than the previous ones.

I mean the car has always filled the same market position, but if you look at the interior of the first gen vs the new one, the first gen today looks like the interior you'd expect in maybe a 70k Luxury SUV now.

Compared to the current one having literally about the best interior at any price.

Plus it has an actual DCT instead of a torque converter automatic

Yeah, a big one.

Ironically the new Aston DBS has a torque converter one, it's the good 8 speed ZF one, but still, that's a weird flip flop

The one DBS had an actual manual option.

Oh, on the subject of British powerplant origins, the current McLaren V8 being a Nissan engine also became kind of a meme after people found out about its origins.

It's not literally one though.

But what happened is in developing their own in house V8 with Ricardo, they bought the rights to the old Nissan VRH race engine, which was used in Group C, GT1, other GT cars... etc.

In my opinion it's actually a good thing to see something based on that engine actually being put to good use in a road car though, since Nissan never did it themselves.

I mean they made a really cool supercar in the R390, but then never produced it.

Well most of Nissan's original factory equipment and original vehicle plans came from the US, it all goes around.

Which is also why the idea of what actually defines the origins of a car is not very clear cut.

I mean it's not an issue, you never hear about it happening.

This is completely absurd.

What kind of systems would you have in place to stop someone from shifting a mechanical linkage if the clutch isn't depressed?

I mean there is plenty of hard data on how a manual transmission works.

And they're not full of sensors and extra linkages and mechanical or electronic failsafes to block you out of a gear. They're just not.

I mean you're talking about forward gears here right? I'm assuming you did not try to shift into reverse on the highway.

Yeah, the clutch is not physically connected to the shift lever though, what system would be releasing the hold in your mind?

Something with sensors, extra parts, electronics, additional linkages, literally what I just said.

I mean you're not gonna find a system you just made up on google.

Yes, well obviously reverse lockout exists.

They're talking about synchros, this is totally unrelated to the clutch pedal

I mean all of these posts re just descriptions of how a transmission works to begin with.

I just don't see why there would be a market need for something specifically locking shifts unless the pedal is depressed, because the assumption would be someone knows they're driving a manual transmission. Unless it's happening all the time that would be a big waste of engineering. And if someone is trying to shift without the clutch all the time they might as well just have something that actuates the clutch for them like a sequential or a dct.

I mean I'm talking about what you brought up, nothing in that reddit post is talking about that, it's just talking about how solenoids and synchros work, which applies to basically all modern manuals.

What?

Well the XJ220 concept was shown 2 years before the CERV III in that picture, so I doubt it was a big influence.

Yeah, I mean it's not in any way related, or similar looking

Also the XJR-15 is the cooler Jaguar supercar.

Yeah I know.

You're talking about the earlier ones in the article.

Not the 1990 thumbnail car.

Yeah, lots of concepts from that period had that kind of look, Zora as a genius though, and a mid-engined Corvette really should have ended up in production way before now.

As far as the XJ220, in practice it probably would have been worse if they went through with making an AWD.

Most of them would probably be broken by now.

Yeah, I mean the main reason they abandoned it is because they really didn't think they could make the intended system reliable, and they were probably right.

Well I've been in multiple modern cars with over 450hp and there is no issue with reining in the power or getting it to the ground, if the car is approaching 2 tons it really doesn't even feel fast with that output.

I'm not talking about that.

What would make you think I was?

I'm responding to @LOGiK who's also kind of continuing the conversation from yesterday where this guy was saying any car with over 400hp should be awd.

Yeah, the funny thing is the 812 has no issue putting that amount of power into 2 wheels, but the Hellcat chassis is not exactly comparable.

Yeah, which is technically a development of an old E-Class platform.

Yeah the CERV stuff is cool, but I mean I read about those like 20 years ago, so I'm not gonna be losing my mind over them now.

There were higher performance cars in the 1930s, one off proof of concept cars having absolutely insane performance isn't really that shocking.

You want to pilot the Bluebird

Or the Mercedes T80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125_Rekordwagen

You would drive that

Also a 48 value DOHC V12

valve

I mean it set its record on the road.

That's what it was known for.

Well what do you think airplanes were using?

You should put a big airplane engine in some pre-war chassis.

Well, some pre-war bodywork with a new chassis.

Put the Tempest engine in a car.

Ok, so that's the deal with the Bentley chassis cars that have these in them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Sabre

Oh, hmm

At least in the case of this one....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier-Bentley

Even though it's around now, it was originally built in 68

On a chassis from 29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard-Bentley

This one was built in 2010 though

That would be a very heavy car

Also if you wanna see some other wacky early AWD, how about the Lotus 56? Turbine engine and awd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_56

I actually like the Ghost more than the Phantom.

It's a better looking car in my opinion, and not as huge, with more performance, even though the Phantom is the flagship.

Yeah it's insanely big

I mean really any of those cars are bigger than I'd want a car to be.

Haha

I mean yeah, if I want a LARGE vehicle, that's the best one

They need to give that treatment to the new G-Wagen though, because the new one has a much better interior.

Yeah, they probably never will, and this was probably the last sendoff to do something really crazy with the old model before the end.

You want the 6X6 chassis with a Trabant body

bring back the Omni

I mean they've been testing them for 9 years at this point, I'd imagine a good amount of data has been collected in that time, and there's plenty of info about it.

You don't know how to use the internet?

I mean there's a lot on the wikipedia page for waymo alone.

In August 2012, the team announced that they have completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving miles (500,000 km) accident-free

This has nothing to do with apple

In June 2015, Google founder Sergey Brin confirmed that there had been 12 collisions as of that date, eight of which involved being rear-ended at a stop sign or traffic light, two in which the vehicle was side-swiped by another driver, one of which involved another driver rolling through a stop sign, and one where a Google employee was manually driving the car.

Keep in mind this is 6 years into testing

What?

How do you figure?

Do you think this is 2012?

As of June 2016, Google had test driven their fleet of vehicles, in autonomous mode, a total of 1,725,911 mi (2,777,585 km).[44]

Beginning of 2017, Waymo reported to California DMV a total of 636,868 miles covered by the fleet in autonomous mode, and the associated 124 disengagements, for the period from December 1, 2015 through November 30, 2016.

You gotta read what I post correctly if you wanna use the data.

I'm sure you can find articles on every single accident that's been reported because they will be heavily scrutinized.

There have definitely been some wacky ones that can be blamed on the software, but even taking that into account they're less accident prone than human drivers.

Yeah, not sure what you mean by that.

And 90% of Lexus models have been rwd.