How long until road cars become so powerful that AWD becomes necessity rather than optional?

How long until road cars become so powerful that AWD becomes necessity rather than optional?

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Right about....now.

Why would they? How are the current power levels inadequate? Wouldn't you rather improve fuel economy instead of even more needless power in mass market cars?

People probably said the same thing 25 years ago. You're an idiot if you don't think cars are going to get more and more power.

The One:1 has 1,000kw and is still RWD.
Using a properly designed chassis, good tyres and computers that know they're shit, it doesn't have any problem.

Supercars did, but the average car? Nah ah.

That's because it's shitty and boring.

>he needs AWD for 3 and 4 figure power numbers

You are aware top fuel don't actually run 10,000hp, right?
Even pushed at low altitudes on cool days they top out at around 8-8,500.

holy shit those wheels!

They just measured one recently. It peaked at over 11 000 and averaged around 7000.

they did, and then it plateaued

>marginal improvements in efficiency with each generation used to just haul more weight around for zero practical power gains

This
You say 8-8,500 as if it's some small number too, top fuel dragsters are astonishing machines.

>sub-4 second 1/4 mile
>speeds over 330mph
>0-60mph in a few feet
>0-100mph in something near one second

Who cares if they get rebuilt each run, they melt spark plugs and diesel halfway down the track, they friction weld their clutches together, the amount of boost they end up running is astonishing, a regular car motor can't even power their superchargers.

I think you fucked up your replies senpai

> computers that know they're shit
> computers that know their shit

at speed

The fucking downforce must be mental at speed.

They accelerate at something like 5 fucking Gs

You didn't make a mistake. You had a happy accident.

When a computer knows it's shit, it means it won't try to interfere? That might be a good thing. It just does as it's told.

fucking dipshits, they'd go faster if their wheels weren't shaped like pentagons

Is that all?

checkd

drivers generally turn while driving

>instead of even more needless power

My vote is for the needless power.

never
f1 cars are rwd and roadcars will never be close to that fast.
Plus rwd car will always be faster than awd cars because less weight and less parasitic loss.

Your insurance company would like to disagree with you

This already happened with the Jaguar F-Type R

Those things are wearing tires that are so grippy they disintegrate in 1000th the time of a road tire though.

>become so powerful

Here's a not-so-secret industry secret: We already had the means to cheaply produce 600+ HP machines for the average consumer as far back as the 60s.... however we really don’t since

1) No great incentive to do. Even if they'd be affordable, it's cheaper to produce reliable 90 - 270 HP shitboxes as 97% of users find this adequate. This is why most consumer ICEs fall in this region.
2) to a limited extent, environmental concerns were a factor.

>put f1 tires on a 918
>now faster than f1 car
no

>Not hill-climbing your funny car

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