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In Reply to: RE: Why dodge the question? posted by b.l.zeebub on March 24, 2015 at 07:13:57
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It will do 12 miles on the battery.
The 918 is the product of 30+ years of r&d
And the Boxster isn't?
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Not of the 30 year+ research by german car companies to produce a 3L/100km car.
Of course they use the same test procedure they use for all cars.
How valid that is in real life scenarios is another story.
A guy I went to school with studied car design (technical not visual) beginning in the mid '80s and even back then that was the first and foremost goal.
In that sense the Boxster is merely a marginal refinement of century old design. It is clearly not a paradigm shift like hybrids or fuel cells are.
you're referring to efficiency - which in today's cheap oil world means very little - versus performance (remember that notion from the original post?) where I see only incremental difference.Don't get me wrong. I'd love to drive a 918, but wifey's modest Boxster can put a smile on your face. :)
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It's no cheaper then in the mid '80s when the efficiency drive by the german manufacturers began.
Probably part of the german program to source > 80% of all energy consumed from renewables by 2050. It'll also give Germany a technological lead, just like the Apollo program did for the USA in the '60s and has so far added nearly 400 000 permanent and skilled jobs to their economy.
Since in Italy and Germany cars are taxed by engine displacement a high specific output was always a priority.
Either way I'm mostly referring to moving technology forward and neither the Boxster nor the amp in question do that in a way class d amps and hybrid cars do. They both might be fun to use but that's it.
Ok, then perhaps you might start your own thread on that completely different topic!
Since in Italy and Germany cars are taxed by engine displacement a high specific output was always a priority.
Let's leave politics out of the discussion. BTW, do you think the 4.6 liter displacement of the 918's V-8 particularly low? :)
And while switching amps might be "moving technology forward", they certainly aren't moving the listening experience forward. Any more than a Prius moves the driving experience forward. It's more like forced neutering to me.
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