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Originally Posted by DenverTaco07
Tires - makes sense
weight - so is a 3566 Curb Weight a good spec for this type of car or no (and that's why the published dry for now)? I mean, is there any legit reason why they don't know curb at this point?
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I've seen dry weight quoted a bit with European cars, though in my googling it seems like its normally used for motorcycles.
They'd almost certainly know the curb weight, since they'd have to know much much oil and coolant and such the car needs. So I'd think this is some sort of deliberate choice, the only reason I can think of is because quoting dry weight makes the car seem lighter.
No idea where this puts it relative to other mid-engined cars.
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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
True, although I would guess Lambos and Ferraris are engineered specifically for that low volume production. They'd have to do some intense re-engineering and re-tooling to get those cars on a mass production line and pump out hundreds of units/day.
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Oh for sure. There are certain shortcuts you can take with assembly procedures when you know its going to be a human doing the task in the span of 10 minutes instead of a robot that has 30 seconds. To go mass-volume, it would probably be just as cheap to design a whole new car than to re-engineer an existing low volume model. But, if VW wanted the Huracan replacement to sell 30k units a year, they could probably make such a car in a Skoda plant or something (never
EVER going to happen ... but funny as hell to think about)