Nrburgring lap record for a Toyota powered electric vehicle (sounds amazing)

Or just the heftly power delivery (and torque) of electric motors?

 

I would imagine there is a load of weight in batteries in that thing. Could be the cause of understeer. You don't get that much in the ordinary Prius.

 

It will still be RWD but my guess is batteries are in the front with motor(s) in the back where the engine usually sits.

Will probably have one motor per rear wheel and beacuse of this they have had to put all batteries in the nose and they are not light weight things.

Pretty much someone was bored and took the easy route of slapping in the electric gear into a proven car to get a new record. I dont care about the radical record thing or toyota publicity thing at all - I would do the same. Why not?

The reason I dont like it is because it is sh*t.

 

Unbeatable. Even by this fine racket:

[YOUTUBE]pBzXcsZDUPg[/YOUTUBE]

 

Just battery weight

 

That vid sound quality I posted up is not the best. There is a 7 minute clip though.
It is not a bad sound for 1.5 litre V16 engine.

 

Would it not be possible to use the car as a power source and electrolyte as per the electrolysis thread and it will just corrode itself away while we get our old rusty parts coming up like new?

 

Why not? !!! Why didn't Peugeot do it?

It's the lamest PR front to come out of Toyota Motorsport at Cologne in years!

It's wearing number plates. Any rallyist knows that starting "K-AM" means proper machinery built in-house to win:

 

Peugeot probably did not do it because they are French, so we can forgive them for that.

The irony of those Toyota's you have posted. Busted for cheating on the restrictor system on the turbos.

Cheating here again.

They are really cheating now though. Cheating every single petrolhead with their filth.

Away to browse the 'case for naturaly aspirated thread'...

 

Yep, they are cheats. The bottom ST205 car was busted with the turbo restrictor workaround in 1995, and the ST185 was alarmingly quick on the Monte in 1993, Auriol whisking a win off Ford in the process.

But I wouldn't call this cheating so much as spin. At least with cheating, there's no declaration of what's being done unless it gets laid bare. Here it's what we see - a Radical, with Toyota on it - and the PR dept is left to talk us into believing that it's far less shallow than it really is, that it's an achievement, the Peugeot is a beaten peer in the same class etc. In short, it's just lies, and very visible ones.

Tuck into the Sunbeam, and I'm off for 6 minutes of a V16 at Danster's suggestion!

 

That Sunbeam is good.

Glad you got those bold bits in the right order!

 

The V16 is nice but I need that E30 S14 in my life.

The brush with the limiter at the end of the straight is perfectly timed and just so 'on it'.

Both the driving and the fact that the gearing is so clearly perfected for full on Nordschleife assault.

 

And when you're done, I feel this somehow is a poignant classic, coming from someone running on petrol who turned a corner and saw something he didn't like.

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=196544

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1762894&postcount=25

Is the future of motoring on the downslope?

 

Is that car made purely to understeer !!

What a piece ! Can't believe the lap time considering the handling challenges !

 

Note 'communicatons officer', head of PR spin at Toyota:

I have read elsewhere that the motors are from the UK. Oh look, the comms dept makes no mention of that.

This is the PR dept and they need to objectively look at the sophistry churned out - and stop treating folk like idiots.

As said, a Porsche with Williams KERS on it, is still a Porsche.

 

changing your name to Jochen knocks 3s off your lap times