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> Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, dynamics, and a bunch of vague "feelsomeness" as sports cars slowly become like horses. I think this is mostly ju
by enragedcacti 3y ago
> Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, dynamics, and a bunch of vague "feelsomeness" as sports cars slowly become like horses.
I think this is mostly just the experience of people who only started caring about performance cars when EVs started being competitive. Porsche people (and many others) have been ranting about the engagement and driving dynamics for 50 years now. There are decades of arguments on forums about handling, 50/50 weight ratios, understeer and oversteer, shifter feel, track times, etc. in addition to arguing about straight line acceleration.
EV people feel like those things are just excuses because previously they only digested mainstream auto news which puts a massive emphasis on straight line acceleration.
- tsunamifury 3y agoThis has been an age old debate -- if you read the comment closely it was saying that supercars were defined by acceleration and handling, but now acceleration is no longer their forte. You could always get a sports car like a P-car if you wanted handling. Don't think everything is just defined by this one issue, it goes way back, but Electric has now killed the first half of a supercar
- enragedcacti 3y ago> if you read the comment closely it was saying that supercars were defined by acceleration and handling > sports car community > as sports cars slowly become like horses can you see how I might have been confused that the comment was about sports cars? > supercars were defined by acceleration and handling, but now acceleration is no longer their forte. I would argue that their forte is (usually) being fast around a track, and that acceleration and handling are just aspects of a complete system, subject to engineering tradeoffs like anything else. When we evaluate through that lens, ICE/hybrid supercars are doing just fine.