Oh, I see. A V8 is more like a equal length box, but I thought the non-corvette body has a longer engine compartment.
Not long enough, sadly!
Strop hit the nail on the head, higher possible displacement with V8. But I forgot this was not to be daily driver so is with 95RON, got some more tweaking potential all of a sudden 
Edit: And the engine reliability is at 49.9.
Using 98RON I pushed it to 1355hp, and lap time down to 6.36
Originally, I also planned to submit a hypercar for this round: the Armare CST-72 R. However, it was so over-engineered and full of advanced tech that I could not bring myself to submit it. Anyway, here it is:
With over 1200 bhp and loads of torque from a twin-turbo 7.2-liter V12, this would have been a serious rival to the R1; I planned to sell 500 examples annually at $240,000 each including markups. I bet Kai would have been terrified and thrilled in equal measure when the boost kicks in, particularly in a RWD monster like this one, but when I realized he already had a hypercar, I went to plan B and proposed the K4 as a replacement for Toothless. Still, I have no regrets building this thing…
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b-b-b-but that’s what a supercar is all about…
but you’d be glad you didn’t, because that would lose in quite a lot of categories.
for your car 7/10
for propping up yourself in front of everyone that didn’t care 1/10
also.
##Phyton Glandict
https://gfycat.com/ifr/GargantuanPaleBaldeagle
.#shamelessplug
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FFS, you don’t get marks for something you don’t submit!!! The entire point of this exercise is to submit the one thing in an attempt to appeal to the customer’s tastes.
Are you writing these kind of statements out of sheer optimism or some kind of magical belief that everybody needs to think the same way as you? Because I think I speak for everybody when I say it’s not going to make any (positive) difference to what we think and it’s not going to influence things in your favour. As I sincerely hope you’ve worked out by now, it’s actually doing the opposite.
I promise, though, my review of the car you DID submit will be as fair and unbiased as I can manage.
@JohnWaldock Let’s see now. I’ve written 7 so far. That leaves 15 to go. So, I guess they’ll come out when they come out.
I gotta say though, I think I’m possibly going to have to divide the results into two posts.
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hypehypehypehypeHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE
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but it’ll be a wall off text won’t it? i’m literally gonna prepare a snack for reading this tomorrow
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@koolkei, NEEDS MOAR HYPE!
As long as it doesn’t spoiler much about the other group of cars, I wouldn’t have a problem with two posts. I divided mine into three, actually.
Dude, get yourself a fucking big bowl of Es Teler, because it’s gonna be HUGE.
Also let’s just say I’m purely writing these in order of entry (like the last time I hosted), and the only thing you’ll know coming away from reading is if your car’s out of the running.
Just… please… let him work…
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heiiiiiiiiii i didn’t expect to read that here. you’ve eaten one before haven’t you?
in fact, you’ve been here before haven’t you?
also 2 post is not really a problem. i even made a separate thread just because i didn’t want to feel like i’m cluttering here.
@NormanVauxhall just can’t take it anymore and want it to come as fast as possible.
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try to read that out of context. another accidental gold.
I’ve never been to Indonesia, but my family tree goes through Malaysia a lot and there’s similarities. Did I mention I love sago pudding?
also FFFfffffffffffffffffff 
TIL that ‘sagu’ is actually called ‘sago’ originally. and we don’t have that here, i think that’s a malaysian cuisine.
we have this though
es cendol/es dawet. same thing
You know what’s great about Australia?
You can get Malaysian, Indonesian*, nearly anything you care to have. This includes cendol. And unlike in Malaysia, you don’t have to worry about where the ice came from LOL.
Also everybody else don’t worry, I won’t be going to bed without posting the first half of the reviews.
* there’s a freaking chain of Indonesian called Es Teler, no jokes
oh really?
i smell a cliffhanger coming… please keep it and just post it tommorow. don’t make us can’t sleep tonight 
also.
you meant this?
the es teler 77 chain shops.
Yeah those ones.
Also, let’s put it to an impromptu vote for those who are here now: who’s in favour of me posting the first half now and the second half tomorrow, and who’s in favour of me keeping it until I’m done? Aside from work, this is the only thing I’ve got going on right now yes I literally put the rest of my life on hold.
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I’m not picky either way, honestly. I’d prefer, though, to have the first half, if it’s practical to do so.
I’d rather have the first half today, a little less wall of text 