Stonehauler
Well-Known Member
My understanding is 3k and higher.
That said, I completely understand your frustrations. My 550i starts making peak torque at 1800 RPM and stays flat until 4750 and only then starts to fall off and my F350 makes peak torque at 1600 RPM.
I've driven plenty of Naturally Aspirated V8s in my time and a non-boosted Coyote seems to need that extra RPM to get it to wake up
As for cars getting lighter. I really doubt we will see cars going the other way on weight anytime soon without either a huge cost increase, or significant discovery. One of the biggest reasons we keep seeing weight increases is due to increasing safety features such as small overlap front collisions. The new mustang has 8 airbags for instance.
I get it that we want light cars, but I think that most of us also want to be safe. Unfortunately, it seems there is a trinity of Weight, Cost, and Safety - choose 2, type of situation. Low weight, low cost = bad safety. Good Safety plus low cost means high weight, etc.
That said, I completely understand your frustrations. My 550i starts making peak torque at 1800 RPM and stays flat until 4750 and only then starts to fall off and my F350 makes peak torque at 1600 RPM.
I've driven plenty of Naturally Aspirated V8s in my time and a non-boosted Coyote seems to need that extra RPM to get it to wake up
As for cars getting lighter. I really doubt we will see cars going the other way on weight anytime soon without either a huge cost increase, or significant discovery. One of the biggest reasons we keep seeing weight increases is due to increasing safety features such as small overlap front collisions. The new mustang has 8 airbags for instance.
I get it that we want light cars, but I think that most of us also want to be safe. Unfortunately, it seems there is a trinity of Weight, Cost, and Safety - choose 2, type of situation. Low weight, low cost = bad safety. Good Safety plus low cost means high weight, etc.
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