i wasn't talking to you, just thought i'd make that clear i was poking fun at the guy you quoted.

 

physics is awesome!

 

Oh yeah I know. I just didn't feel like scrolling up and quoting him.

 

i think the new ones look 100x better than the previous generation.

 

They're still fat blobs made for highschool girls that want a different looking car...just like the last Eclipse.

 

The eclipse not being turbo had nothing to do with the Evo .... It is simple. GSX's and GST's only made up 10percent of the number of eclipses sold in the US.... Turbo cars just dont sell well; the market is too small. When they offer a base model for 16k and then a turbo model for 30k; its hard for alot of people to justify. Similarly; the evo is probably about 5 percent of the total sales of lancers. Add on the terrible resale of mitsubishi's; its hard for them to justify turbo cars from a financial gain perspective. They spend more money in R&D and high warranty repairs and don't get it back.

I think the new eclispe looks good from some angles. Im waiting to see people start hooking them up. If it didnt have a 6inch wheel gap and the front and rear end werent so ugly, it would be a sweet car. So, with a lot of modification, there could be some really nice ones out there.

 

I just really don't understand how you go from this:




which is clearly a BAD ASS design... to this:





frumpy monstrosity. they lost SO much going from concept to production that I think they lost the concept all together.

and that ass still looks familiar Mitsu... Not quite, but nice try though.

 

Momentum refers to a rate of speed, or better rate of acceleration correct? So, the car has a rate of acceleration from the line to the finish, correct? Are we saying that this rate of acceleration somehow changes dramatically depending on the distance you are traveling, without some kind of forced induction or change in timing like vtec?

Of course we aren't doing an 1/8 mi, stopping and doing another. It's a continuous rate of acceleration, so that rate isn't a variable (again without FI), however the distance is, and the distance traveled is changing for 1/8mi to 1/4, essentially doubling.

Every thing else, (time off the line, rate of acceleration) should be the same provided there are no mechanical changes.

SO, the variable in the equation is distance which is halved, everything being relative, doubling the 1/8 mi time with a margin of error can be used to project, NOT ACCURATELY MEASURE a 1/4 time.

That being said, I made that post to try and find out where that guy was getting his math. He said it does 8.3 in 1/8mi and the proceeded to say the car would do mid-late 14's.

Mid-late 15's make a lot more sense.

 

nope, the concept was ugly as shit too. the engine setup was interesting though.

 

I'm sure there will be a aero kit out there for it that resembles that concept in some form. I think I saw an aero kit as one of the upgradable options on the Mitsubishi website.

That being said there aren't many cars that carry the same exact design from concept to production...Changes are made between to tailor the vehicle to the target market...