Re: 20.8 KM N�rburgring in 6 Min 55 Sec + Video

[rocco16 at sbcglobal.net (Larry Fry)]

>> Building your own engine (even using readily available parts) and
> utilizing
>> a custom transmission (THAT should be cheap) sounds more like a
>> 'let's-see-if-we-can-do-it" than an exercise in bang/buck efficiency.
>
> How do you figure?  This thing has been kicking ass all over the European
> continent.

What I said has nothing to do with what you said.




>> Horsepower-per-dollar is always highest if you don't have to do the
>> development work.
>
> The proof is in the pudding, from what I have read, few have beat them.
> That means that apparently they have held up to the races they were in. 
> IE,
> they confirmed they were capable of completing the task they were designed
> for.  Racing may begin on a chalk board, but it sure as hell does not 
> finish
> there, man.

Again, you are talking about results.  I was talking about the cost of those 
results.



> PS-- How does anyone here have any clue the amount of R&D this company has
> put into this?  What computations they have gone through to arrive where
> they are now?  What number of degrees the designers involved have, and how
> much they really know?

Answers:
Yes.
Only they know.
Irrelevant.
Enough, apparently.
:)

(yawn, I think I'll go to bed now.)

Larry
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