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Toyota Hybrid Supercar
As seen in last month's sport compact car:
http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/future/volta.html Thoughts and opinions? I think it looks sweet, and the 0-60 is simply blistering. Not to mention it will go ~450 miles on less than 14 gallons of gas! |
well with 408 HP, i really hope it would be quick...I want one..
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that is sweet
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I hope they actualy take it into production... not that I could afford to buy one, but it would be a great symbol for Toyota – Their pace car for the entire company!
;) ...Or maybe Toyota could make a 2+2 slightly less powerful version and call it a Celica? :D |
looks cool!
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That car looks hot. Probably weighs 5000 pounds and handles like a truck though.
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Originally posted by Z00M RX8 That car looks hot. Probably weighs 5000 pounds and handles like a truck though. |
Originally posted by jonnyb try about 2800 and i bet it will handle better than your 8 :p. |
They won't produce it.
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Even if they don't, it just shows that you can still have a fast and light hybrid car .
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yeah definetly,
power and quickness is what's really holding hybrids back. If they could make this or even a less powerful model (along with more pratical design) I think it would really do well. I would love to get 30+ mpg in a car with 400+ hp, hell I'd settle for 250 hp :) |
agreed
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Originally posted by glxyjones yeah definetly, power and quickness is what's really holding hybrids back. If they could make this or even a less powerful model (along with more pratical design) I think it would really do well. I would love to get 30+ mpg in a car with 400+ hp, hell I'd settle for 250 hp :) shi..... I'll go with that idea ANYDAY ANYtime.... |
hard to believe that is a Toyota. I like it.
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hahaah yah i know i said id never drive a toyato but that is a sexy car
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Originally posted by draco067 Even if they don't, it just shows that you can still have a fast and light hybrid car . Meet MR Hybrid – Toyota will soon produce a hybrid sports car. Hinted at by the CS&S concept shown in Frankfurt last fall, the production car will be a compact 2-door successor to the MR-2 Spyder ... Expect at least 300 horsepower and all-wheel drive ... hits the road before the end of the decade. Mazda: A new member of the rotary club. At the Tokyo show in 2005, Mazda plans to unvail the turbo RX-8! ... it's going to be a newly developed electrically assisted turbocharger that will be able to meet the increasingly strigent emmissions regulations ... |
Honda had a very similar concept car a couple of years ago. I think it was called the Dual Note or something like that. I wonder how feasable for production a high-performance hybrid actually is.
Wasn't there a big expose recently where they claimed that current hybrid cars aren't as fuel efficient as they thought? |
I remember Honda's Dual Note. Pretty sweet. I'm glad these guys are going in the right direction when it comes to combing power, beauty, and environmental friendliness. I am not too sure about the name, which is after the guy who founded electric potential (you can find that information in Chapter 1 of any EE book), but the concept is refreshing in a world run by leviathan SUVs and butt-ugly commuter cars.
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The name is Allessandro Volta, after the Italian scientist. I should mention that Italdesign did the styling . . .
Peace policy |
Originally posted by policyvote The name is Allessandro Volta, after the Italian scientist. I should mention that Italdesign did the styling . . . Peace policy :D I can only hope that the next generation Celica will share some of it's lines ... ;) |
I can't wait for the Mazda Laplace Transform to come out :).
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Originally posted by shelleys_man_06 I can't wait for the Mazda Laplace Transform to come out :). Here I was hoping that you knew some insider info about a new Mazda hybrid car. Let f(t) be a function defined on tex2html_wrap_inline134 . The Laplace transform of f(t) is a new function defined as displaymath108 The domain of tex2html_wrap_inline138 is the set of tex2html_wrap_inline140, such that the improper integral converges. (1) We will say that the function f(t) has an exponential order at infinity if, and only if, there exist tex2html_wrap_inline144 and M such that displaymath109 (2) Existence of Laplace transform Let f(t) be a function piecewise continuous on [0,A] (for every A>0) and have an exponential order at infinity with tex2html_wrap_inline154 . Then, the Laplace transform tex2html_wrap_inline138 is defined for tex2html_wrap_inline158 , that is tex2html_wrap_inline160 . (3) Uniqueness of Laplace transform Let f(t), and g(t), be two functions piecewise continuous with an exponential order at infinity. Assume that displaymath110 then f(t)=g(t) for tex2html_wrap_inline168 , for every B > 0, except maybe for a finite set of points. Laplace transforms are used to solve differential equations. As an example, Laplace transforms are used to determine the response of a harmonic oscillator to an input signal. It's all greek to me! |
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