G2turbo_terror

WTF is drive by wire.

<----never owned a car newer than 92.

Sinner

"Compression Ratio 10.5 "

PoorMansPorsche

it means </mechanical linkage between the pedal and the throtle> in other words.. sensors measure the distance the accel pedal is pushed and relays that to the throtle mechanism to open the throtle body to the oppropriate angle. Its what all cars will be in the coming years.. but this is basically one of the first "economy" cars to impliment the technology.

MakAttack

not sure if anyone would care....but there's a video about that...found it on a different article

http://world.honda.com/HDTV/news/2005-4050705a/

Cray91

there is fly by wire for planes. So if you put your *** in the air with it, then I suppose in a car is okay.

stenseltizm

I don't know if I believe that. I've seen some videos of those planes ------- up during demonstrations. Basically during a low level flyby, the computer thought the plane was supposed to land. so it did, right into the woods next to the runway. I just think about all the bugs and glitches that are always in computers, no matter how hard you try you'll always have at least one.

spongerlbc

Planes are also inspected before they take off. Wanna know something scary... Fedex has a more rigorous preflight inspection then most passenger airlines... (dad works for Fedex, used to work for a few commercial airlines).

jung4g

And instead of carbon fiber hoods, they'll be solar panel hoods. "Yo man, check this out, I get an extra 2.5kw from this thing. Only during the day though "

Semnos

Don't think it's a D18...it has a 81mm bore like a B-series does.
And it has less torque then HP(sorry SinisterCRx)
It has 128 lb.ft. torque....on the site it says 174 NM that is what they mostly use in europe and other shitty countries.

mattnteclipse

Its gonna be a sadd day when i have to hunt down a dseries