2011 370z, 400 hp..... hybrid?

LiquidZ

How will you mod a hybrid? Bigger batteries?

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tolnep

HAR!..

when i was a wee bitty fellar.. some of us were into slot cars.. you'd buy em and go to these slot car tracks and race em.. the true gurus of that world did things like taking their itty bitty motors out and rewinding the coils to pull more power somehow.. i think it actually would suck power into their cars and reduce power to others.. dunno though..

hotrodding electric motors will be cool.. perhaps cooler than hydro-carbon based engines... imagine dropping a locomotive electric motor into a volkswagon and showing up a the local track....

Alexus

The FT-HS is still under development and should debut some time next year as a 2011 model year.

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FricFrac

lol - just take a few winds off your motor and it will draw more current and in turn (no pun intended there) will produce more power. It will also put more load on the power supply and if the power supply isn't up to the task the other cars will be slower

Hot rodding electric motors is already huge with the R/C guys and the new brushless technology its the software in the speed controller that is making huge leaps in performance including software timing advance, etc...

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370Zilla

Great post wstar!

One reason they have not done this is the retooling costs. They are setup to make the types of vehicles they make. They don't want to spend the money, and have the downtime to retool the factories, and retrain the workers. Not to mention training technicians for repair. IMHO, they should have used the bailout money for this.

FricFrac

WStar the four wheel/motor system is going to be a huge leap in how the car handles as well. There is no need for a differential you can program LSD however you want it to react - its going to give unbelievable handling characteristics.

As for our love or hate for hybrids they are going to be here regardless. Its the step consumers need to take going from gas to electric - its part of the psychology of changing technologies. Its the same reason your DVD player is backwards compatible with your CD player, etc. We don't like change even if its for the better so Hybrids are part of the transition. Full electric will be outstanding and with battery technologies changing as rapidly as they have been the future isn't far off. An electric motor will eat any gas motor - its just a matter of time before we can carry enough electrons in our cars to make this possible.

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SpawnAeroJohn

IMO The FT-HS probobly wont ever come because nobody wants to drive space ships. Its 2009 not 2049.

MutantChicken

I've been a hot rodder for years, I've owned a '67 Firebird, '40 ford, and my wife just bought a 2010 Camaro. But I still find myself wondering where our future lies .... I'm in my mid 40's now, and I find that I want there to be some sort of future for my children, does that mean my son is going to be hotrodding hybids ? Does that mean I need to hotrod a 370Z hybrid ? For some strange reason that doesn't bother me anymore ... I say bring it on !!!! Quite frankly I have hotrodded everything with a carburator that I can, I'm bored. Injectors ? Getting boring .... Let's try somthing new !!!!

Naytch

No thanks. Thats why I settled for the 2010 when I heard about this. If I wanted to go green I'd go all electric, ride a bike, or take the freakin bus. Call me old fashion but there is something about putting a battery in a car....especially in a sports car for that matter. If performance hybrids turn out to be the next big thing of this century, fine...I'll still be proud to own a "real" sports car that feeds on fuel and not some damn battery powered "toy" car.

Vegitto-kun

and then you see your *** getting handed to you by these "toy" cars

LuckyJinx

400 hp for the hybrid z. TT on the '09 '10 z. There you go.

Vegitto-kun

lol you need to start turbo charging your car to handle a "toy" car.

Naytch

pfff..i'll believe it WHEN i see it. On paper its a huge jump in performance, but it still needs to prove itself...also reliability is still in question. If I do get my *** handed to me...that just means its a faster car...but it doesnt mean its a better car, I'm predicting its going to have its own set of problems and I'm not going to put my hard earned money down to find out....I'll settle for the 2010 thats tried and true thank you.

tjlazer

JeeZe. And someone thought I was bringing back old threads from the dead.

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wilsonp

I wouldn't call this a toy:
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