Yep turbos will always be different from NA and supercharged.Peter255 wrote:Saw that posted in F'book.
This bit:
Is more than a little worrying. And until we get to drive one ourselves its impossible to detect the lag from the passenger seat!But a turbo comes with caveats. Lag. Noise. The Atom doesn’t quite manage to give both a full swerve. Lag is there at low revs, and although negligible above 4,000rpm it never has the raw urgency, the instant savage kick that the old supercharged motor had. Nor does it have the same buzzsaw wail that made the Atom 3 sound like a manic motorised mosquito. Now it’s Darth Vader on laughing gas, this frantic gaseous sucking and blowing. It’s good, and you can play tunes, get Darth all riled up and then back him off into a ‘Moon River’ moment, but it’s not stellar.
Modern turbos usually have lots of low down torque with a pretty flat torque virtually to the redline.
I'm a big fan of these type of turbos which in IMHO make this type of car much more driveable. This engine is a real peach - see engineering explained
The downside is usually the sound, turbo lag and off boost behaviour - though the latter two have been largely eliminated.
Fuzzy face is not really a place I'd trust - carperfection gives a much more balanced view
Once Ariel have got more respected reviewers to look at the mk4, I'll think you find that the mk4 is significantly better than the mk3 in all respects.
Looking forward to the 4R!
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