CT8 to be First True Flagship in Modern Era

[balthazar]

Throttle tip in is really slow, but it makes the car not jumpy.  My brakes grab pretty well, but I also put Zimmerman drilled rotors on and Akebono Euro ceramic pads on.

Slowest throttle response of any (well-functioning) car I've ever driven. Sounds like an engineering deficiency, not intentional.

 

Fell for the whole 'drilled rotors' thing, did you.

[smk4565]

It came with drilled rotors, I just put new ones on.  In fact, I think when you do parts searches for brakes all the ones that come up are drilled.

 

I read up on the fake V8 sound.  A company called MR racing in England is adding a sound generator with fake V8 noise and some other performance upgrades to Golf GTD (the diesel GTI), although I am sure they'd do it to the GTi also.

 

In other exciting VW news, the next Jetta will be styled to look like a 4-door coupe!  When will it ever stop.

Edited June 25, 2015 by smk4565

[David]

Wonder if all the Turbo engines will continue to push out smoke like Audi. I see so many of their turbo's and people jump on the gas and you see all this black smoke come out every time. Very sad, just give me a reliable small block V8.

[Guest Wings4Life(BANNED)]

I have come full circle on engine sound tuning.  Did not like it at first, but then realized, why not. I mean, engine sound tuning has been going on for years by adding louder mufflers.  Sure, we can argue they add power, but honestly, if it's already performance tuned, you are not adding much, and few can even notice it anyway. And the cost of these exhaust systems is not cheap, so the bang for buck is tiny.  Unless of course you go extremely loud (minimal back pressure) which may sound cool for a spell, and then you are stuck with all the annoying resonance and complaining passengers, hehe.  And the other side of the equation is that cars have become soooo quiet inside, that you are left with little engine sound, so they try to amplify it anyway.  If you are taking it to that level, it is then not too unlike the graphic equalizer days, where it can be tweaked.  

 

It's a new age.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Wings4Life

[Drew Dowdell]

Wonder if all the Turbo engines will continue to push out smoke like Audi. I see so many of their turbo's and people jump on the gas and you see all this black smoke come out every time. Very sad, just give me a reliable small block V8.

You're probably seeing the TDIs

[David]

 

Wonder if all the Turbo engines will continue to push out smoke like Audi. I see so many of their turbo's and people jump on the gas and you see all this black smoke come out every time. Very sad, just give me a reliable small block V8.

You're probably seeing the TDIs

 

Very true, did not think about that but then why does the Duramax not do the black cloud thing when you stomp on it compared to the TDI's of Audi?

[Drew Dowdell]

 

 

Wonder if all the Turbo engines will continue to push out smoke like Audi. I see so many of their turbo's and people jump on the gas and you see all this black smoke come out every time. Very sad, just give me a reliable small block V8.

You're probably seeing the TDIs

 

Very true, did not think about that but then why does the Duramax not do the black cloud thing when you stomp on it compared to the TDI's of Audi?

 

 

Because they have so much torque they alter space-time and send the coal dust into the future. 

[David]

[balthazar]

You go WOT & top boost on a Duramax and it will put out a cloud. It's not black, but it's definitely there; enough to envelope an s-class & a CLA, in my experience.

[cadillacescaladefans]

This is gonna be so smooth.

[ocnblu]

I like the proportions of the rendering, but the style is too too bland.

[Drew Dowdell]

Emission standards are ever increasing, but that is why BMW makes the i3, Mercedes makes that dopey B-class electric, why Volkswagen sells eGolfs, etc.  They need those to offset Rolls-Royce, S65 AMG's, and Bentleys and Bugattis.  As long as they make enough electric cars they can still have some low volume V12 or V10 cars.

 

The S600 gets 21 mpg highway, there are pickup trucks that do worse than that, and I don't see a rush to put turbo fours in the Silverado and Ram, or to get them under 4,500 lbs.  And how many S600s and S65 AMGs do they sell?  Maybe 10,000 a year globally?   Rolls sells like 3,000 cars a year or something, not big numbers, easily offset some of the low emission offerings.

 

Trucks and cars are in different CAFE buckets. Some of the larger trucks don't even count for CAFE standards.