Andreas¹

I don't think you'll find many people here who don't use Hardcore mode. No, it isn't very realistic gravity-wise but neither is Arcade mode where the gravity is set to Jupiter or something. Gravity aside, I find (and I think most other people as well) Hardcore mode to be more realistic in most other aspects of handling and physics and I used a keyboard for most of my TDU days as well.

It's a twin-engine petrol-electric hybrid. BMW, Mercedes and Audi all offer old fashined petrol engines, but as far as I can work out none of them offer a hybrid to compete with the T8, especially none that can give you >100mpg and 400bhp at the same time. Yeah, the people who are actually buying the cars might have more important priorities than the sound the engine makes. Even if they don't, reading just two reviews - by people who have driven the and do so for a living - is enough to contradict your statement: The 4-cyl D5 (225bhp) is practically made for the D5 and pushes the XC90 along very nicely Sound comfort is up there with the best, it's compared to the Mercedes ML and Range Rover Sport Volvo's 4-cyl diesel rattles less than the 6-cyl diesels of "certain competitors" *cough* If anything, the petrol is the one that needs a more interesting sound, and that's precisely what's being dialed in during these last few weeks before production starts Would they fit it with an engine they knew wasn't going to be refined enough for the car, especially when they are so openly going after the Germans?

Whatever it is Morgan are showing in Geneva it sounds a-ma-zing :panic:

I thought he was referring to your avatar but in that case I don't get it either.

Aiming at the German cars IE it's rivals, X5, Q7 etc. And why be so hung up on the cylinders? Even the smallest D5 engine has over 200 bhp and the T8 packs over 400.

They're really aiming for the Germans with this one though aren't they?

I've always thought it looks good but it was even better in the flesh so to speak. Didn't get a very good look though, didn't look up until it was already passing me. I think the boot said D5, so no fancy T8 but it still sounded okay iirc :hmmm:

I saw one of the new XC90's out on the road today, must've been Volvo out testing :hmmm:

I love it. :D When not driving, I could cut cheese or something on the edge of the boot lid.

Let's hope not, that thing is ugly as hell :eek:

Possible but the verb "Regera" mean "to rule" or "to reign" so I think Koenigsegg are being not very humble about it. :p

I feel like there are a lot of interesting things to be revealed in March. :hmmm:

Only just realized? :p As good as the screens look, they've at the final stages for a long time now :wait:

I just got to watch the third episode and I really liked it, laughed a lot to be honest and the paramedic-around-the-track segment was hilarious. xD

Jelly. :( Can't wait for summer. :D

That's very fancy :hmmm: Something I'm not really fussed about but want to try just because it looks so snazzy :p

Interesting. :hmmm:

:welcome: Teeth please!

Hey I gave an opinion :gmc:

None of them probably, not a fan of Bond to be honest.

:birthday: Have some rum and listen to some Rom :nods:

That's what I was thinking but if they are still as future proof as you say then I guess that doesn't really matter.

As shallow as it may sound, I'm with Mike here and I'll say the looks. The car might be amazing in all areas but I wouldn't want to live with it if I had to walk out to it every morning and think "God that's ugly".

When was the the i5 4xxx series released? The i7 5xxx series is just being put on the market, will the i5 follow or is that going to take a while? Don't know much about Intel and their release schedules :hmmm:

Basically, the higher the number the better. The current series is the 900-series. Cards from x10 - x40 are prefixed GT (GT210, GT610, GT620...) and are the low end cards. x50 and up are prefixed GTX (GTX960, GTX970, GTX980...) and the performance cards. The suffix Ti (GTX750 Ti for example) supposedly stands for Titanium and is basically a slightly improved version of that card (so GTX750 Ti is better than the GTX750, but still below the GTX760). For gaming, I think you're looking at a x60 minimum really. With a 960 I don't think full HD will be a problem but you might have to turn down some of the extra options a notch or two. Depends on the amount of video rendering you want to do. The difference between i5 and i7 is that the i7 supports Hyper Threading. I'll admit straight away I don't know what that is but from what I've read (also looking at CPUs at the moment) Hyper Threading really only makes a difference for really CPU heavy stuff like video rendering and there are hardly any games today that support it. In other words, if you want to do a lot of video rendering, an i7 might be worth the extra money but for games it won't. Or you can wait for Camel to come round and correct everything I've gotten wrong.