Scion Challenged 3 Media Outlets to Develop the Ultimate FR-S—These Are the Results

Scion’s annual Tuner Challenge, in which 3 tuners are provided a Scion, $ 15,000, and 90 days to customize the automobile for the SEMA show, has become anything we appear forward to each year. For 2014, Scion has changed things up: instead of handing the automobiles over to tuners, the automaker issued its challenge to 3 media outlets: Super Street, Speedhunters, and the GT Channel. Just days just before the automobiles (which are intended to take inspiration from the FR-S Release Series 1.) make their official debut in Vegas, Scion has just provided some information and a slick YouTube video of how every team’s ride is coming along.

GT Channel Scion Tuner Challenge FR-S

The GT Channel chose to keep the body of its vinyl-wrapped FR-S largely stock (i.e.: it didn’t fatten it) but it did add a sweet reduced physique kit, a modest (by SEMA standards) rear wing, and TRD HID headlights. The group also swapped in new taillights, side mirrors, and matte-blue 18-inch wheels. The hood, trunk cover, and rear diffuser are all carbon-fiber pieces. An HKS supercharger kit, a Ganador exhaust technique, and a slammed suspension add some go to the Scion’s show, while the interior has been dressed with a TRD steering wheel and shift knob, Recaro seats, harnesses, and of course an upgraded sound program.

Speedhunters Scion Tuner Challenge FR-S

Speedhunters’ entry is old-school in the ideal way possible. Think of vintage TRD, TRA Kyoto, Trans-Am, pro touring, and muscle vehicles, and it’s difficult not to draw a hyperlink. The team’s FR-S employs a Cosworth supercharger kit and a 3-inch single exit exhaust, among numerous other engine upgrades, and a suspension that drops the wide-physique Scion down on its custom Rotiform 17-inch wheels. The physique gets a new front splitter, fender flares, and hood louvers. The mirrors and door handles have been shorn off, and even the door glass was removed. The interior gets a 4-point roll cage, low-back bucket seats, leather upholstery, and a rapid-release steering wheel hub.

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Super Street Scion Tuner Challenge FR-S

The group from Super Street chose to stay close to the general appear and color scheme of the FR-S Release Series 1. with its construct auto, only they cranked up the volume in pretty much every single way. The body wears painted carbon-fiber side sill and splitter extensions, hood and trunk, and massive fender flares, all slammed down on prime of ultra-wide 18-inch BBS wheels. The interior gets Recaros, a 6-point roll cage, a quick-release steering wheel hub, custom upholstery, and huge audio upgrades. Beneath the hood, the FR-S’ boxer 4 engine gets person throttle bodies and breathes through a Borla header and cat-back exhaust with quad tips.

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Scion Challenged 3 Media Outlets to Develop the Ultimate FR-S—These Are the Results

Prepare for Ludicrous Speed! Porsche 918 Spyder Featuring Our Exclusive Test Final results

Hi-Po Silver! Porsche’;s 918 Spyder is the quickest production vehicle however. Here’;s how it makes the numbers.

Flush as we are with nutty overall performance automobiles at the moment, we should keep in mind that automobiles as swift as the Porsche 918 do not come along also frequently. In 2008, the quickest (and quickest) production automobile we had ever tested was the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It could hit 60 mph in 2.5 seconds and burn the quarter-mile in 10.1 ticks. The Porsche 918 crushes the original million-dollar car with a 2.2-second sprint to 60 mph and a 9.8-second quarter-mile time. To place that in perspective, .3 second is about how extended it takes you to blink. As acceleration instances shrink, their deltas grow to be increasingly larger percentage gains, so the 918’s third-of-a-second edge over the Veyron represents an astounding achievement. To wit:

Virtually any automobile sold in America can hit 100 mph. Plenty can even hit a prime speed of 150. So if all you wanted were speed in this planet, you could get it cheaply. But what you actually want is to minimize the time it takes to go from zero to 60. You want the capability to alter path at high speeds whilst keeping control of the automobile. You want the capability to brake speedily. You want to drift the vehicle sideways at higher speeds, as advertisements of sporty autos are compelled to show on tv. These functionality features garner premium rates in any automobile line.

And they are all exhibitions of acceleration—legal in most locations across the universe.

Algebra issue of the day: 2 918s accelerate from rest in a one-mile-long tunnel from opposite ends. What is their closing speed at the center of the tunnel?

Answer: Greater than 350 mph.

Launch handle requires the guesswork out of testing the 918. 2 electric motors with a combined 285 horsepower operate in concert with the flat- crank, 608-hp 4.6-liter V-8. By routing torque— as much as 830 pound-feet—to all 4 wheels, the 918 maximizes traction.

If we had a small much more testing space, we may have been able to hit 200 mph and dethrone the Veyron’s 25.5- second zero-to-200- mph time. (It is also the only auto for which we have that stat.) But even Porsche admits that the Veyron accelerates tougher at higher speed.

Glancing at the speed show for half a second although going 187 mph— the fastest speed we achieved—makes 137 feet of road disappear. That’s 5 feet much less than it requires the 918 to quit from 70 mph in a full panic circumstance.

There is very little wheelspin throughout the 918 launch. But assuming for a moment that there is no at-launch wheelspin whatsoever, the 918 jumps to 16 mph after just one particular wheel rotation, or in about 6 feet. Its massive 325/30ZR-21 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 rear tires ($ 729 apiece) stand almost 29 inches tall, practically 2 inches taller than a 911 Turbo S’s rear rubber. Escalating the general diameter of a tire increases the location of the get in touch with patch. That is why Leading Fuel dragsters’ tires are engineered to expand in response to inertial forces at launch. Widening the tires assists to increase the lateral limit.

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