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Offline Ripsnort

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Chrysler prototype goes 0-60 in 2.9 seconds
« on: January 06, 2004, 07:17:25 AM »
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Re: Chrysler prototype goes 0-60 in 2.9 seconds
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2004, 07:28:56 AM »
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(Waves to the Ford GT)



Yea, so what? It may be faster and have 850HP but it will always lack one thing, the blue oval badge...
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2004, 07:31:17 AM »
Oh ya, the prototype made by "Benz".
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2004, 07:34:18 AM »
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Oh ya, the prototype made by "Benz".


No!  Chrysler chief Wolfgang Bernhard said it was an all American car.. ;)
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2004, 07:36:08 AM »
Ya, Wolfgang Bernhard.....my bust.;)
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2004, 07:49:18 AM »
Prototypes are not production cars. Most companies have made one-off freaks for publicity and/or transferable technology.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2004, 07:54:20 AM »
Yeah, and after it hits 60 mph in that whopping 2.9 seconds, the tranny drops to the pavement and you come to a screeching halt in 2.9 seconds :D

I can say that cuz I'm a not so proud owner of a dodge ram going on its 2nd transmission in 60K miles.  :(

I don't care how good/fast the car looks.  I will never by dodge/chrylser again

KIA all the way!!!!  :D
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2004, 08:42:22 AM »
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... but it will always lack one thing, the blue oval badge...


WOOHOOO!!, WTG !!!
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2004, 08:44:37 AM »
Thats interesting Modas, we have a Dodge Ram 1998 that has over 70k miles on it, never had trouble with the transmission.  However, we do own a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee that has gone thru 3 transmissions. The first 2 lasted only about 10k miles each, the 3rd has lasted 130k with no problems.
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2004, 09:23:58 AM »
The dodge protype from "The Wraith" bragged an awe inspiring 100hp/liter for a grand total of 220hp.  It got me thinking about an Oldsmobile I heard about from the late 80's where they were first playing with the Quad 4 and pushing it's performance.  The prototype had a twin turbo quad 4 pushing 750hp (375hp/liter).  I hear rumors that they actually got the engine up to 1200 HP, but can't find much on the web about it.

If we're gonna talk prototypes, they're gonna have to beat this one:

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« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2004, 09:34:00 AM »
But thats not a protype for a road car, its more of a science project.  This chrysler thing has AC, sound system, airbags, meets all government safety regulations etc...
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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2004, 09:38:31 AM »
There is one thing about it - it's almost as pretty as a European sports car.

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« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2004, 10:02:03 AM »
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But thats not a protype for a road car, its more of a science project.  This chrysler thing has AC, sound system, airbags, meets all government safety regulations etc...
Yeah? But will it do 278 mph?
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« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2004, 10:04:45 AM »
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hear rumors that they actually got the engine up to 1200 HP, but can't find much on the web about it.
 


TAG-BMW 1,5l Turbo pushed 1500hp in qualification runs and 1200hp at races..

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It sounds absolutely incredible, but the world`s most powerful Grand Prix engine was based on a production block! That was taken from the 1969 presented type 2002 and reduced from original cubic capacity of 2.0 litres to the 1.500 ccm the Formula One regulations had allowed for turbocharged engines. To reduce inner tentions within the engine blocks BMW only took those ones that had done more than 100.000 kilometres - " they are like well-hung meat," as engineer Paul Rosche said, who had a very close relationship to Nelson Piquet considering him as a perfect test driver. Later a special treatment had been invented to imitate this high kilometre performance to avoid BMW to run out of old engine blocks.
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« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2004, 10:08:06 AM »
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Yeah? But will it do 278 mph?


278mph? Many science projects were much much faster...

http://www.landspeed.com/learn.html

It's a technology demonstrator and nothing more, there were no pretenses of it being a production prototype road car. I know how much you love to argue minid and I dont have the time to do that so I'll leave it at that. :)
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