You’ve clearly created the MERs to be a drag racer. There were a number of engineering choices that detracted from your goal of being a cruiser:
- Why no vvt when you went to the lengths of having vvl? You robbed yourself of huge amounts of low end torque and economy. No matter what, 20L/100km is terrible when this is not a Lamborghini.
- 235 on the front is way too narrow when your car ended up being 1900kg with a front heavy weight distribution.
- your brakes remind me of a 1962 Stingray. That’s not good. More pistons are good but at least make the discs large enough to effectively dissipate the heat. A car this fast and heavy needs at least 350mm front, closer to 315 rear. (To clarify, if you’ve a car with over 600hp and weighs 1.9 tons, you don’t want a 5% penalty for fade, as I mentioned in the review).
- the suspension. I would suggest the ride height not be so low, because your car isn’t getting benefit out of that for sure. Also, I am not sure what the benefit of active Comfort settings are. Maybe that’s in line with your car’s vision, but just watch out for the economy and extra weight.
- Electric diff: great for patching up the dynamics and also for that bit extra in the 0-100 but for a car in this price range, worth it? It’s bloody expensive.
Those issues were the core of why Kai was visibly disappointed when normally he’s just happy to be behind the wheel. But of course, obviously, the main problem is the car doesn’t fit the brief at all, you don’t really need my review to tell you that.