loki

i used to drive a G-Body wagon....

is it surprising to me that chrysler sells as many as they do... being only 2 vehicle models...?

the next evolution is obviously a 390Z. 240-> 260-> 280 (then 80's/90's things), then 350-> 370->.... see?!

9 hours ago, ccap41 said:

I always find this odd.. Why can't they produce both transmissions that are capable of 317 lb-ft? 

I remember the RX-8 had a similar situation where the auto had much less power(and/or TQ) than the 6spd. 

autos have a hard time spinning to the ~9K rpm the rotary can do. lower rpm(all things equal otherwise)= less HP. 

comment says the rev limiter was removed on this vid..... factory it came with a rev limiter, probably <8Krpm... so factory rating HP was lower.

also, the s2000 didn't have an auto tranny.  some praise needed for that, but woul dhave had some reliability issues most likely.... like an unlimited RX8 would have....probably.

4 hours ago, ccap41 said:

I do not enjoy the headlight area on the new one. 

2 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

It's fad... just like fender vents were a fad 10 years ago.

can we see a return of the 80's dual style?!

3 hours ago, smk4565 said:

I don't think Fuel Cells are going to catch on, car companies have tried it for 10 years now, no one wants it.  Good to see them planning a lot of EV's, I don't think the Bolt's shape or a Cadillac wagon is the way to go, but if they build sedans and crossovers those will sell.

fuel cells, "HCCI"... we'll see about the 2nd from Mazda, hopefully "soon" in production(2019 model)

Riv, yeah, if the "powertrain" can be modular, just pull it out if it's a flop and and change it to the other version...

18 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

But you're not in a downsized turbo that this article is talking about. If Mazda did a 180hp turbo 1.6 liter.... you'd probably get different results. 

yeah. if they got the 100HP/L they get in the CX-9, be interesting if they did that to the 1.5L to compare with the 2.0L, but that'll probably never happen.
EPA should really just post numbers at several MPH increments and then a "city" cycle and agressive Highway driving cycle.

best i've gotten was ~42.3, worst was 28ish. but i don't do a ton of stop and go and don't speed excessively.
wondering how the skyactiv-x will add to this data..

3 hours ago, lengnert said:

Other than the front end I would have guessed that a GM concept.....?

Just from the first picture i thought it might be a Lincoln.

i think Mazda is supposed to be doing something more there... perhaps the 6, or more info on skyactiv-x....

hm, will Mazda get access to that 8-speed?  will they help each other with adding the high compression tech to a v6 and v8...dreaming in the clouds....

32 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

It is a nice product...they finally built something i would like to buy, but won't sell it to me....hmm....

overall kinda mazda-ish...moreso with the dash...but kinda melty. like the screen and hvac slid down ...

9 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Mazda 6 is really tanking hard...

Glad to see the Miata do well.

guessing the '18 model info should be starting to show up in the next month or 2...
curious when skyactiv gen 2 will make its debut.

a blue/green tinted chromish audi.

bently convertable i think

10 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

We still need to get back together....

And yes, Ohio isn't a bad place to live...all things considered...

we will. but now i'm working. contract job for intelligrated (honeywell).

On 6/15/2017 at 4:06 PM, A Horse With No Name said:

Ohio has cheap insurance affordable housing, and lots of overcast days, there are trade offs.

Isn't that special....!

People complain about everything even when it is for the better.

insurance... mine dropped ~33% from IL...

On 12/20/2012 at 1:52 PM, dfelt said:

Interesting to see the 400 v8 2bbl at the bottom of the fourth paragraph on the bottom. At least this confirms that our Olds was not a freak but actually part of an available package.

I was thinking of noting my bolded in your quote...  I had never before seen "barrels" called out differently than bbl's

12 minutes ago, Frisky Dingo said:

1) Hate to see the V6 go. Honda had one of the best ones.

2) Good to see they are going to still offer a manual.

3) Even better to see the CVT is not spreading.

4) The 10AT is overkill, though.

5) I wonder what this means for Acura? 

#4, according tho the ratios on honda's website, the ratio spread is 6.04.  i'd guess they're aiming at more than 7:1... like GM and ford.. and others...will help MPG and smoothness that a 4cyl may lack compared to the v-6. just sayin.

2 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Without delving into politics any further than we need to, we pretty much have a thirteen year old boy in a mans body in the white house, and another 13 year old boy in a man's body in leadership in North Korea. We have seemed hell bent on marginalizing and invading Iran for a decade or more, and the middle east is less stable every day. Putin is a wild card. Both parties pretty much are owned by the corporate state. We have very little in the terms of a press or journalism in this country that is connected to reality in any way. The average American voter is either as dumb as a box of tree stumps or a bar of soap, given the day of the week. We have lots of nukes, as do lots of other countries.

Maybe the Voluntary Human Extinction movement (a real thing, google it) isn't so voluntary...

gah, i was just talking about the star trek timeline... but then comes warp tech.. in comes vulkans, then peace and expansion till... klingons, romulans, cardasians, the borg...

42 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

We live in a post truth world now....might as well live in one without currency also...

careful, we don't want to invite WW3...

just personal experience..

got a 5Y loan on my mazda when i bought it...

I refi'd almost a year later to 66m and 1.76% Less.  Over the past 2 years I had made 5 months ahead payments (was on track to pay it of in the original loan time)... this was good cause of my job loss, but planning to start one next week at more than 2x the pay i had been making. 

1 hour ago, A Horse With No Name said:

I love that Era of Scout...

Not sure what kind my dad had, but i think he said it had the ~4ishL v8... Green outside... like a normal 60's/70's vehicle. hehe

i'm just curious about weight, power, and gearing compared to something like a mazda6...

will this e-assist be like pre 2017..kinda like the BAS system, or more like the 2-mode transmissions? 

it doesn't say what tranny the 2.5L will get either...

22 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

There ya go.  

also been modified... if jacked up, why wouldn't they modify the ECM code to allow this to happen?