As fast as a Hawker Hurricane!

[moot]

My pet orangutan on vodka could do better with some blueprint paper and crayolas.

Anyone know what happened to the Cerbera Speed12?

[indy007]

If you can afford the million+ for the car and the insurance premiums... I highly doubt you'll even be caring about the gas pumps.

As for the McClaren F-1... the Pagani Zonda claimed the top speed record awhile ago. To top them all though, the brit built, 350 chevy powered Ultima GTR (about $100k, also available as a kit) currently holds the 0-100-0 record, which is considered to be the true measure of a sports car. The best McLaren road car they could send up to compete against those numbers would be chassis #073. It has an updated LM engine with 691bhp @ 7500 rpm & a one off "high downforce package".

[Furball]

Ultima GTR also has the lateral G record

http://www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=348&nr=1

The Ultima GTR logged a road car skidpad world record of 1.176g lateral grip around a 200ft diameter circle, at the Chertsey test facility.

[Furball]

GTR 0-100-0 record

http://www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=100&nr=1

http://www.pistonheads.tv/redirect.asp?id=334

[superpug1]

OMG Veyron. i just read an article about it in MPH. keep in mind that something like a mclaren, or zonda, or probably even a 911 turbo could slaughter it on track like laguna seca. This thing weighs 2 tons dry. with a F1 driver, and full fluids it goes up to about 4300 pounds.  it is made to go fast, and stop fast. not turn lol. Haha, here is a fun fact. it has 10 radiators.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Bluedog



good excuse to throw in a piccie of my favourite Aussie muscle car.

[aussie voice]

THE LAST OF THE V8 INTERCEPTORS!

[/aussie voice]

[Holden McGroin]

£810,345...  If I had that much in my transportation budget, I'd buy a Chevy Pickup, a motorcycle, build a hanger and build one of these:




370 mph cruise, 33 gph, +3.8, -1.9 G's, 7000 fpm climb.

And I'd still have money left over for an addition to the house and a vacation.

[nirvana]

I'd agree, the Veyron would get it's arse kicked in a race, however, it would be a beast to drive around a race track with really long turns, or high banked turned.

he auto tech class i'm in is obsessed with it too.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

You guys have it all wrong, u buy something like that to own a rare piece of awsome ingeneering. It's one of the ultimate moving mechanized sculpture.

[Holden McGroin]

I have a bridge I'd like to sell ya.  We can fly under it in a Lancair Propjet and give you a close look.

You can see the awesome engineering of the bridge and appreciate the Lancair's sculpture at 370 mph.  Getting better fuel efficiency, and being able to do 370 anyplace above 10k (or is it 12?) rather than just at the racetrack or the autobahn.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Americans ...

[moot]

[Bluedog]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
[aussie voice]

THE LAST OF THE V8 INTERCEPTORS!

[/aussie voice] [/QUOTE

Allmost

That is an XC Falcon Cobra, Mad Max's 'Interceptor' was an XB Falcon GT two door.

Allmost identical though, just the XC is a later model ('78-'79 for the XC, '73-76 for the XB)

The one in the piccie is one of only 30(its #13) built by Ford Australia to full race specs for what was then the James Hardy Bathurst 1000....Aussie 1000km touring car race.
351 Cleveland, 4 speed Top Loader, disc brake, limited slip 9 inch diff and balls the size of watermellons.
Ford Aus made 300 all up, but most of the other 270 are tame by comparison, only packing a 302 and auto.

When we hit 280km/h in that thing, it had more power up it's sleave and could have done quite a bit more if my courage had been up to it, but we were running out of road fast, and I was allready more than impressed.


BTW, Max's Interceptor now shares garage space with Magnum PI's Ferrari, Mr Bean's Mini and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in England at the Cars of the Stars Museum
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[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by capt. apathy
fun to drive but I'd be crying at the pumps.

no carb, no injection- just a monkey under the hood, throwing buckets of gas into the engine.

8 mpg City

2.5 mpg at 253mph sustained

Karaya

[bozon]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
£810,345...  If I had that much in my transportation budget, I'd buy a Chevy Pickup, a motorcycle, build a hanger and build one of these:
...
And I'd still have money left over for an addition to the house and a vacation.

Well said.

Plus, that car is butt ugly. I hate the slick pseudo futuristic look.
I also bet that if we race on a real jumpy dirt road I can beat it with my Fiat Punto.

Bozon