Need For Speed, Tesla Breaks Dyno, Real-Life Hoverboard: The Week In Reverse - Motor Authority
A new Need For Speed video game is coming, and it looks amazing. Need For Speed has been entertaining us for years with its arcade antics, but for the latest version of the game , it looks like things are stepping up a notch or two, with hyper-realistic graphics and some stunning car choices. If you’ve ever though Ford really should have built a V-12 engine for Le Mans back in the ‘60s, Jan Baker is your new hero. Starting with two Ford V-8s and some spare parts, he fashioned exactly that—and it’s a 552-cubic-inch, odd-firing monster. The Tesla Model S P85D does, and it has it instantaneously thanks to the black magic (or, as engineers would call it, physics) of electric motors. Here, that instantaneous torque turns a dyno into a pile of broken parts. You probably know all about the four-cycle combustion process of a typical engine, and you may even be up on the Atkinson cycle. But do you know—like, really know— how a differential works. It’s not exactly like the one we dreamed about every weekend since Back To The Future II—it’s more like a two-rotor giant drone you can stand on—but it’s awesome anyway. You’ll find stories like these and much more every week at Motor Authority, so be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook,. Source: www.motorauthority.com
