Gage
08-24-2008, 11:54 AM
Enter the exoskeleton based sports car.
Most Olympic athletes have something in common with an exocar like the SL-R. They are largely nothing but muscle and bone, lean as a whip, carrying only what they need to excel at their chosen sport.
Put one man who is a hundred pounds overweight against a man who isn't. Who will win? The only contests where that might be different are those where weight is a key to winning, where fitness matters less than mass.
My definition of a sports car has been radically altered because of owning and thus developing a firsthand appreciation for the unusual characteristics of an exo-car. In my mind, the purpose of a sports car is to deliver automotive performance. If you take away any and all unnecessary features from a sports car, and thus weight, you increase the performance and longevity of the machine that remains. In other words.. Cutting out extra weight and gizmo's makes the machine faster and more reliable. It becomes more what it is meant to be.
From my exo-car influenced perspective, normal sports cars are ungainly, expensive, whales. Bloated, wearing a dress, make up, and carrying a huge purse loaded with heavy useless gadgetry, they struggle around a track, breaking nails, shattering high heels, requiring an astounding amount of maintenance and replacement of consumable parts like brakes and rotors.
Tracking and racing a normal sports car is like trying to make a fat woman run an Olympic race. It's a joke. It is a joke relative to the efficiency with which a purpose built exo-skeleton based sports car equipped only with a drive line and essentials for racing will do the same thing.
Muscle and bone, motor and frame, those elements deliver the maximum performance with the most efficient use of energy.
Far less money will be spent on the motor, the brakes, the rotors, general maintenance, trailer hauling to and from a track, <-(not really needed for an exocar) fuel, on an exocar than on a conventional 2000 to 4000 pound track car. Radical performance can be achieved with modest components because of a high power to weight ratio that rivals that of 50k to 500k sports cars, for half the amount spent on the cheapest typical super sports car.
How much do you really need a roof, an air conditioner, traction control, etc. etc. etc.?
How badly do you want to accelerate as fast or faster than a sport bike, like a Porsche Turbo, or some other super car, in a four wheeled machine that you built for the cost of a Honda Civic?
Enter the exoskeleton based sports car.
Most Olympic athletes have something in common with an exocar like the SL-R. They are largely nothing but muscle and bone, lean as a whip, carrying only what they need to excel at their chosen sport.
Put one man who is a hundred pounds overweight against a man who isn't. Who will win? The only contests where that might be different are those where weight is a key to winning, where fitness matters less than mass.
My definition of a sports car has been radically altered because of owning and thus developing a firsthand appreciation for the unusual characteristics of an exo-car. In my mind, the purpose of a sports car is to deliver automotive performance. If you take away any and all unnecessary features from a sports car, and thus weight, you increase the performance and longevity of the machine that remains. In other words.. Cutting out extra weight and gizmo's makes the machine faster and more reliable. It becomes more what it is meant to be.
From my exo-car influenced perspective, normal sports cars are ungainly, expensive, whales. Bloated, wearing a dress, make up, and carrying a huge purse loaded with heavy useless gadgetry, they struggle around a track, breaking nails, shattering high heels, requiring an astounding amount of maintenance and replacement of consumable parts like brakes and rotors.
Tracking and racing a normal sports car is like trying to make a fat woman run an Olympic race. It's a joke. It is a joke relative to the efficiency with which a purpose built exo-skeleton based sports car equipped only with a drive line and essentials for racing will do the same thing.
Muscle and bone, motor and frame, those elements deliver the maximum performance with the most efficient use of energy.
Far less money will be spent on the motor, the brakes, the rotors, general maintenance, trailer hauling to and from a track, <-(not really needed for an exocar) fuel, on an exocar than on a conventional 2000 to 4000 pound track car. Radical performance can be achieved with modest components because of a high power to weight ratio that rivals that of 50k to 500k sports cars, for half the amount spent on the cheapest typical super sports car.
How much do you really need a roof, an air conditioner, traction control, etc. etc. etc.?
How badly do you want to accelerate as fast or faster than a sport bike, like a Porsche Turbo, or some other super car, in a four wheeled machine that you built for the cost of a Honda Civic?
Enter the exoskeleton based sports car.