I rode in a friend’s Ferrari (1978 308) recently and while I love how it sounds… I often can not get enough of the turbocharged sound. So if you love the sound of turbochargers doing work here you go:
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It may be an older video of ours, but I love it and cannot get enough.
Update: Apparently I decided to post this exactly two years after uploading it to YouTube. Odd.
You may have noticed that the co-driver can barely see above the dashboard. No… co-drivers are not like horse racing jockeys, they are average when it comes to height. What makes them look like children is the seat height.
Co-driver seats (to an extent Driver seats too) are much lower in the car than your standard seat. That is because the engineers are trying to bring the center of gravity(CG) closer to the wheel hub height for more predictable handling. Higher centers of gravity accentuate ‘weight transfer’ in the car and that can make a car way more dangerous than it should be.
This is why all the components that are high up, like the steering wheel, tend to be made of materials like carbon fiber. While the cars have a minimum weight (in the WRC) the engineers try and place the weight as low as possible in the car. In fact, Subaru’s “boxer” engine is an attempt to keep the engine as low as possible and further bring the CG down.
So stop making fun of how a co-driver might look in the car, for all you know they could be bigger faster and stronger than you… looks can be deceiving.
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