Interesting. 261 horses from a 3 cylinder. If I would trust turbo from any company, it would be Toyota. This means light as hell, so better handling in the track? I'd like to see it in the curved track. I need to see what it can beat in a curved track.
By sound we mean the exhaust sound? I got a 6 cylinder G35, and it sounds really nice out of tunnels.
It's still a 1300 kg car, with a pretty normal COG and engine layout. Compared to a S660, it's a lot heavier and doesn't handle like a road legal go-kart.
It behaves like a very good hot hatch in the corners from my test drive, suspension is well judge and very controlled for the height of the car. It just grips and grips, never felt the 2 LSD working unlike my FWD Type R where the LSD will pull the car towards the apex. The steering, chassis and drivetrain is amazing and don't need mods IMO. No drama or "playful" loose handling, simply tied down and grip as it goes.
In terms of intake or exhaust sound, it just lacks any. No fun turbo noises or throaty exhaust sound, just nothing. Inside the cabin, there pumped in audio through the speakers that sounds OKish but doesn't sound like a sporty car at all.
It's still a 1300 kg car, with a pretty normal COG and engine layout. Compared to a S660, it's a lot heavier and doesn't handle like a road legal go-kart.
S660 has 63 horses, which made me disinterested. It didn't even have decent amount of power. I wonder what is the most ratio of horses to weight for stock factory car, not moded? <-forget I asked this, it's got to be some supercar. What I was meaning was from light weight class cars like Yaris, not supercars. Probably Miata, S2000, or MR2.
I'm guessing this is more for daily driver that happens to be fun.
Please no fart can exhausts. It's better to just to not have those sounds. It's proper to have big sounds from big engines.
S660 has 63 horses, which made me disinterested. It didn't even have decent amount of power. I wonder what is the most ratio of horses to weight for stock factory car, not moded? <-forget I asked this, it's got to be some supercar. What I was meaning was from light weight class cars like Yaris, not supercars. Probably Miata, S2000, or MR2.
I'm guessing this is more for daily driver that happens to be fun.
Please no fart can exhausts. It's better to just to not have those sounds. It's proper to have big sounds from big engines.
I don't own any stock factory car, and I do agree without mods the kei limited 64ps is pretty slow.
It's never meant to be a track monster, so having less power means I can use all of it all the time, even at about 90ps now it's still slow enough to have fun within legal speed. Especially when I can pull over 1G in the corners on a daily commute with traction to spare. Bone stock one will still hold 1.3G from factory in the bends. It's just made for corners and corners only. With less than 10 in the whole country, it's also pretty interesting to own.
Old MR2 and Elise might be close with more power. Kei-cars are simply not for NA market.
I have a very quiet exhaust and a carbon intake, it makes all the right noises quietly. On the other hand, GR Yaris sounds like a standard Yaris Hybrid. Completely uninspiring, my only gripe about the car really.
Have not stopped by here in a while but my wife is on the last year of her lease so I'm starting to look since I'm giving her my Outback. Coming to the Outback from four VW GTI's in a row I sure miss my small, nimble and toss-able cars. Ever since the scandal (known as the 73 million $ bump in the road for VW) my wife hates them and would give me daily grief if I got one so have considered a S-Cooperwerks Clubman or depending on review & specs one of these
Good call, wife's had both and moved to a CRV these days. Me, I'm more of a German guy so Golf or Jetta would be my pick for a 1st timer. (for sure a stick) Guess it would also be budget driven as well As mentioned above won't be long before Elon has the Model 2 out the factory and if that's not your bag and you can reach into the 30's I'd consider GTI, A3 or even a Clubman since BMW has a heavy hand in the Mini now I got a small crush as one of my golfing buddies has this one
Honda Pilot, Honda Civic (electric hybrid with dead battery so around 100hp), Toyota Corolla
the usual
oh and 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS and 2009 Lexus IS350 which was only half a second slower to 60mph
Now most of those cars are gone and I want -> Audi RS5 4.2 FSI(B8) -> Audi R8 RWS -> Aston Martin V8 4.0L Vantage -> that stupid ridiculous Lamborghini SUV
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Guess it would also be budget driven as well
I got a small crush as one of my golfing buddies has this one
