| JamaicameCRAZY said:
1. Ok have you driven the CR-Z before? Have you driven it in GT5? Who knows it could be a really fun car to drive. We dont know until we try it, so lets not be so hasty to pass judgement on something based on the fact that its a hybrid. If you play it in GT5 and its total garbage and sticks out like a sore thumb then your whole rant is justified. 2. Flogging is usually ment to beat or torture. Hence why i brought up the difficulty. 3. I am not a engine guru so i cant comment on what upgrades this car can or cannot handle. But it can be upgraded all cars can in some way or another (weight reduction, shocks, exaust, bodykit, ect). Check this out http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/09/spoon-developing-parts-for-honda-cr-z/ Goes to show that there are people out there that want to race this car. Also these people would probably be interested in GT5. I would also like to say while on topic of modding or upgrading that this is the one area GT could improve on. I think they should let people put body kits on cars and customize paint jobs. Also yesterday i got passed like i was standing still by a CR-Z and i have to say its a great looking car if it wasnt just a ok hybrid i might want it. But its just ok and my car now non-hybrid does just as good if not better mpg wise.
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1) I don't need to drive the CR-V to make such a general observation. Basic vehicle dynamics says it won't be much good at this sort of thing. You're going to spend the majority of the course at full throttle because you can't accelerate fast enough to even approach the max speeds for most corners. When you do finally build up enough steam to take a corner at your tire's limits, it's going to understeer heavily thanks to a 60:40 weight distribution and you're going to have to fight it all the way through a corner. Fun racing that does not make.
2) "Flogging a car" is an expression to describe driving it on the edge and trying to extract every ounce of performance you can out of a car. Here's a video posted in another forum called "Fifth Gear's Tiff Needell flogging the M3":
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?s=af425fb7a9629ed5dd64e97dc514e664&t=424797
3) Wait, so you think because Spoon, who's whole business strategy is cashing upon the "JDM" obsession of neo ricers, is making aftermarket body kits for the CR-Z like they do every other Honda car it means that the CR-Z is now a fun car to race? No. That doesn't mean anything. Yeah you can throw springs and shocks on the car, but that can't change the fact that the chassis is designed for comfort and space and not rigidity and the suspension geometry was designed with a nice ride in mind, not a good roll center, pitch center, mechanical/pneumatic trail for racing. As I pointed out, a lot of the weight in this car comes from it's hyrbid drive train, there's really not much you can take away. A bodykit is not a performance part. This car doesn't even get fast enough for aero to matter anyways. Aside from getting rid of the catalytic converter, you're not really going to get much out of a new exhaust because the engine isn't moving much air in the first place. I'm not saying those modifications won't be available, but they won't cause any significant performance jump. This car will remain a boring car to race.
