According to the reviews that car is bad because of "the less polygons"What they want? A stickerbombed Alzen BiTurbo
No news yet, still waiting on a few bits and pieces form the team before its properly finished.Any news of the UCM Formula Student? Would really love to drive it!
Yeah just noise in photoshop basically, took a while to get it looking okay, still could be a ton better.This tape effect is crazy, is it done with normal maps ? niiiice
Try to explain that to all the guys who wrote negative reviews on my 512...
Hard to break those convictions once you get to know your heroes I suppose, could be disappointing for some and can't take it (so they'd rather complain about it).
I've got the same feeling on the 512 the first time I drove it with Jason's physics, but instead of complaining, I've decided to educate myself on how the real car would handle on a track. Turns out, that's what it is, guess it's the same case here with the 550.
We've got used to glorify these cars for the way they look, but how many can take them to a race track in real life and get to really push them hard as we do in AC?.
I bet it also has a lot to do with modern cars having less roll, and just being used to that. It's easy to forget how much roll older (even 00's) performance cars had.
Not to mention the fact that a LOT of people still think that a suspension is performing at its best when it's as stiff as possible, which isn't necessarily true unless you're running a lot of downforce.
Hmm I don't think its as easy as you think there. It is true that many "enthusiast" link hard suspension to sporty driving, which results in mostly those top sporty RS/M/AMG models being stiffer than needed, but overall suspension development has made big steps in those roughly twenty years. Every sort of movement adds momentum which you don't want. We have active everything now and in general cars do have better handling and more predictable handling for the general non racetrack-trained public, in cars that weight more. Often you can dial it in via a menu inside the car, while driving!Spot on, go to Hertz/Europcar/Sixt/Rentacar and take out any mid to upper mid class sedan from a VW Jetta through a Ford Focus/Taurus/Mondeo up to an E-Class or A6. All of these ride about 20 times stiffer, harder and generally just bumpier than say an E39 M5 which at the time was criticized for having a suspension that wasn't quite as comfortable as one would have liked. Mind you some reviewers actually noted that it was even stiffer than the Ferraris at the time (~1997/1998).
People just have forgotten how comfy cars used to be especially in Euroland where the ever growing demand for less consumption forces OEMs to do what's necessary to achieve the goals AKA stiffen up the f***ing thing, install start/stop and give the engine a schyzophrenic power curve. Sadly those measures don't stop at high performance/high luxury class cars. Of course the press never mentions that being the bullhorn for the OEMs and the youtube reviewers have never driven a late 90s Ferrari, Porsche or S Class for that matter to know how nice a ride used to be.
Anyway, the 512 is absolutely perfect as is and the 550 just keep that thing rolling exactly as it is at the moment. The comment about stiff doesn't help you unless you have a lot of downforce - not sure about that. There is an art called tuning suspensions on road cars. It's all about the balance of dampers and springs and roll bars and suspension bearing stiffness/softness. You don't need a lot of downforce to get a car to handle nice and be fast around a track BUT it will still roll and be demanding to get right.
Hmm I don't think its as easy as you think there. It is true that many "enthusiast" link hard suspension to sporty driving, which results in mostly those top sporty RS/M/AMG models being stiffer than needed, but overall suspension development has made big steps in those roughly twenty years. Every sort of movement adds momentum which you don't want. We have active everything now and in general cars do have better handling and more predictable handling for the general non racetrack-trained public, in cars that weight more. Often you can dial it in via a menu inside the car, while driving!
in cars that weight more
You don't need a lot of downforce to get a car to handle nice and be fast around a track BUT it will still roll and be demanding to get right.
That is why the Can Am cars had the rear wings directly attached to the control arms of the rear suspension. They could could keep a soft suspension and have the downforce applied directly to the wheels. Just was more dangerous as the wings often broke off due to excessive vibrations that the suspension would normally absorb.That was my point; if you're not making piles of downforce, having super rigid suspension is often detrimental to performance. A suspension has two primary jobs; absorb bumps, and keep all four wheels as planted as possible.
The stiffer your suspension, the less it is able to do either of those things (and being too soft obviously hinders as well). The trend of super stiff suspensions on a lot of modern cars come from the ubiquitousness of downforce, for which you want stiffer suspension so that you don't lose that force by simply compressing the suspension. If you don't have downforce, you generally don't want to run as stiff as you would if you were making ample downforce.
That is why the Can Am cars had the rear wings directly attached to the control arms of the rear suspension. They could could keep a soft suspension and have the downforce applied directly to the wheels. Just was more dangerous as the wings often broke off due to excessive vibrations that the suspension would normally absorb.
Is the road 575 going to be manual? I really hope so, because in AC you can turn any car to floppy pedals, but not the other way around. I hear a lot in reviews, that Ferrari's from early 2000's that have manuals are so much better experience than the ones with F1 box. Besides, that gated shifter looks million times better than the silly little "thrust levers" that autos have.
I guess it will also have Fiorano handling package by default?
either I have a sea urchin infection, or I'm doing cage welds