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Originally Posted by Vettezuki
Power can overcome weight for acceleration. Torsional rigidity, dialed in suspensions, great tires can TO A DEGREE compensate for some, even most of the weight penalties under normal or even sporting driving conditions.
You can never overcome weight penalties for peak handling performance. It's just a loss. Moreover, removing weight is the ONE thing that benfits every category of performance.
The Evora, a perfectly lovely 2+2 GT is 2,900 something.
But the thing we're sort of forgetting here is the simply unbelieviable advances that are being made in material science. Decades off from being seen in production vehicles, but things like Bucky Paper and other nano-structured materials offer strength VASTLY greater than steel by volume and orders of magnitude less weight.
"Buckypaper is one tenth the weight yet potentially 500 times stronger than steel when its sheets are stacked to form a composite."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckypaper |
"You can never overcome weight penalties for peak handling performance. It's just a loss. Moreover, removing weight is the ONE thing that benfits every category of performance".
Correct Ben.
