It is important to be able to stop, but come on man
Prices for carbon ceramics will come down. The steel rotors and pads work just fine. The carbon ceramic systems push your spine though your stomach when you brake heavily.
I like the results, but they're not necessary. At 60 MPH I stop in like 90'. With steel rotors, it's probably more like 110'. Most cars don't have carbon ceramics and they work just fine.
Yeah, most cars don't have the kind of power that would require those
I expect them to go down in price. People like me are paying for the development and startup costs by buying in early.
Koenigsegg has carbon fiber wheels. The idea of carbon fiber wheels makes my dick hard. You can lift up the wheel with just a few fingers.
Much of a car's performance is in rolling inertia. You have to slow the wheel down to brake, but that also means you must slow down the mass of the wheels. That takes a ton of energy in both directions, acceleration and deceleration.
Those are interesting to me, but they were like $30k each the last time I checked. The prices were expected to get down into the 10k to 15k range.
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