06-06-2012, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by nuTinmuch
It's possible to have everything with smart engineering.
The BRZ, for example. Or -- in another category all together -- the Hyundai Sonata. It's lighter than our car, yet it's a feature-loaded comfortable family sedan.
Honestly, we just had to put up with a lot of bad design in the 90s and early 2000s. That led to more weight than anything else.
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"Safety measures" didn't make cars lighter. It made them bulkier, less maneuverable, harder to stop. So then braking and handling had to be upgraded to keep up. Engines needed more power to be considered "fast". Then someone noticed that heavier cars with more powerful engines were brutally inefficient, and so FI became the winning move. Even archaic BMW moved into FI performance models.
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