I dont condone street racing but this was on a back road with no other cars around last night and it was a straight road with no turns or corners. I was waiting at a light and a new CR-Z pulled up next to me with a kid in it. He revved and it sounded like an electric golf cart. Light turned green and we took off. Had close to a few cars on him by the time I hit 3rd and then let off since it was total humiliation. Im guessing it was just a young Honda fan boy who thought the CR-Z's were like the old school CR-X's (they could be made into some serious pocket rockets). Wonder if this is going to be the future now. People buying electric vehicles and trying to get them faster than 20 second quarter miles.

 

In a few years most of the fastest street cars will probably be electric or hybrid. It's actually easier to have a very powerful yet efficient electric car than a gasoline powered equivalent. The performance side just hasn't been focused on much yet.

 

^^Very well said. Look at the Tesla Roadster. A bit expensive, but one of the only all electric sports cars on the market. Things will change in time, and electric/Hybrid will one day own most if not all gasoline powered vehicles. Can anyone say, Insta-torque?!

 

I disagree, I don't think electric cars are the future. Remember GM's EV1? That was apparently an amazing car but GM never manufactured it? I think the big oil companies have a bigger influence on car makers than everyone may think. What about all the jobs that would be lost in the oil sector if the gasoline powered car disappeared. I don't see it happening.



BTW - Where is my Hover-car? Shouldn't we have those by now!?

 

People can't drive a regular car.. much less a hover car.

 

Unfortunately, there is not a limitless source of oil. We will be using alternative fuels due to cost within a couple of decades at the most.



Still waiting for an AWD car that has a gas front engine and electric rear drive. Would be pretty amazing.

 

There is actually an abundance of oil on this planet, we just need to find a cost effective way of removing it from the ground (or under the ocean). Canada also has an abundance of oil in Alberta (tar sands). It's not that I'm against electric cars, or saving the planet.... I just don't see a change coming anytime soon. That and I love the sound of performance cars, what would an electric performance car sound like?

 

No doubt electric cars are the fastest. I had a run with a Tesla and they're unbelievably quick but let's see how they can do with 20 bags of cement or 4 occupants like my car.





I really disagree. They have enough oil to last a few good many centuries. All of the leftover energy from deceased matter throughout the history of life amounts to LOTS of organic matter. When they run dry from one location, they will find pockets in another. Antarctica dubbed "no man's land" just like the United States and South America was before Spain, Portugal and England cashed in and look what happened. Russia, Finland, U.S. and other major powers have already began to source MASSIVE pockets of reachable oil under the ice using submarines. There is a "space race" going on to claim them and the law doesn't apply there which is why we never hear about it.





I agree that you disagree. Haha.



I think they will replace fuels with genetically enhanced (to reproduce faster) bio fuels. They've already done it but it'll take years before the government finds a way to exclusively commercialize it.

 

eh?







Im sorry I couldn't hear you over how awesome I am.. come back when an E-car matches this





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Now.. having max torque at zero rpm's is nice. However, we will not see real performance cars, that are really usable (no joke ranges with long charge times) until battery technology gets better. I am glad to see motorsport starting to use some hybrid tech, that may trickle down to real cars.

 

we haven't even gotten burning gasoline perfect. i think that we will progressively start to see gas internal combustion engines get better and better at burning gas. the motors will get smaller, and they will power electric motors.not like in the hybrid fashion we see today where the gas engine takes over when the battery is dead or depleted, but small gas engines powering generators to power electric motors full time. These hybrids are the way of the future. no question in my mind. I think that the current hybrids we are seeing are the test cars for this idea. they are able to get numbers and real world data from consumers of the current hybrid.