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    New RS5?

    It is not the straight-line performance weight I have a problem with. Electric cars and hybrids have had more than enough power to overcome that weight for a long time now. It is the completely blunted driving dynamics they have round every bend or roundabout, even Lotus couldn't mask it...
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    New RS5?

    That's not difficult to look better than the M3, but IMHO neither of them look as good as what was around 10 years ago. RS5 weighs more than my Land Rover even when it's fully loaded with my gear :astonished:
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    New RS5?

    Life is not all about drag races but this showed you cant get past the extra weight that is being added to all these cars. 40 years ago cars were about 1200kg, 10 years ago that had grown to about 1500kg but in the last few years we seem to have added about an a tonne. I feel it in every modern...
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    Ouch. Bald tyres to blame.

    @HM3P Seems to be catching, another 8Y candidate for a cut and shut and advertised as one careful owner :tearsofjoy: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1758876378890134
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    New Merc AMG CLA45 unveiled at Goodwood

    The gearbox is not just for efficiency, it just puts the car in a better torque band at higher speed which will increase efficiency but also available performance. From Porsche's own blurb: "First gear gives the Taycan even more acceleration from a standing start, while the long second gear...