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Hyundai Shows Off 460 HP Prototype Supercharged Tau V8
Detroit, 12:26 PM
Sun Dec 6
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Sir.
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supercharged v8 damnelantra™ FTW
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I'll help you out with that! The end result would be amusing as hell.
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I figured out my problem with the Genesis coupe. Its a matter of styling and history. The styling is clunky and unrefined. The Genesis has no history to support it being a well performing, inexpensive driver's car.
If they can get the styling fixed I will look again.
If they put this thing in the no-frills Genesis coupes I might look past the bizarre sheet metal.
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Food for thought...
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Didn't Hyundai say that the Tau wouldn't fit in the coupe?
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I am just somewhat surprised that it doesn't fit in the first place; 4.6 liters really isn't all that big for V8, and if they can cram a 6.2 into the similarly sized Camaro, and a 5.4 into the Mustang, how did they miss the boat on not being able to stuff a 4.6 into the Genesis coupe?
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That's very true. I have been trying to find physical dimensions on the Tau, but they just don't seem to have released that data in their spec sheets.
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Making a powerful pushrod V8 is about as difficult as falling in love. I've done it quite a few times, it's really, really not hard to do. (Building the V8, I mean. Falling in love, that's a whole other matter.)
Making a powerful, fuel efficient, reliable, lightweight, environmentally-friendly and affordable pushrod V8... that's another matter altogether. Any carmaker can check all those boxes with a DOHC engine. It's not that they're cheaper, it's that they have the ability to fine tune the engine easily without a lot of engineering costs. Most of it can be done with software.
Chevy lucked out. As little as ten years ago, the technology didn't exist to refine the manufacturing process enough to really allow a pushrod engine to compete. But they kept putting a little bit of money in each year, and as the processes caught up, suddenly and unexpectedly, they had a great engine.
It would cost anyone else an absolute fortune to do that again.
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It's true. I remember my father telling me that they used to think that the LT1 was the last of the small block pushrods, and that the Lotus-developed LT5 was the future. And then, suddenly the LS1 arrived, and all was good again.
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The Camaro isn't all that much bigger:
Camaro:
[www.conceptcarz.com]
Genesis:
[www.conceptcarz.com]
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Interesting piece, though.