Actually it has 10 Radiators and the engine makes 3000hp, but 2/3's of the energy is heat. Leaving around 1001ish is available at the wheels (but the actual number is not released by Bugatti). 250mph to a standstill in around 10 secs has to be an amazing feat of engineering. I am not mentioning the World Record Edition, just the Standard.
But there is the Venom GT, I mean the reworked Lotus Exige. Gimme the Bugatti. Why? It is an original design and not a bastardized version of something else.
Original Veyron had 10, the SS has 12 (I was one off)
As for 3000hp... ...
I have no idea what you're on about, horsepower is a unit of measurement for work, not heat energy, 1 horsepower = 33,000lb/ft of work per minute. All engines waste energy as heat, that has nothing to do with how much work they can accomplish. All you're saying is that that engine has poor thermal efficiency (all internal combustion engines do) horsepower has nothing to do with wasted thermal energy.
As for a reworked Lotus. The only thing left from the original Lotus on the Venom is the windshield, doors, and a few interior bits. 95% of the car is purpose built by Hennessey.
The difference is that mass production cars need to stay in one piece for longer than 1 two mile strip at a time. It's easy to pull 2000hp from an engine. To have that engine last for a decade in random use then again...
Oh poppycock. That Hennessey built drivetrain will easily last just as long and be just as reliable as the VW. I would argue more reliable since it's a much simpler design with about half as many potential failure points. Besides the instances when either the Venom or the VW would actually hit the peak of their powerbands are so rare anyways. Those engines will live 90% of their life tooling around making less than a third of their peak power, and when they do hit peak power it'll only be for a few seconds at a time.
That Goodwood clip indeed leaves you thinking that either the Venom has a really crappy gearbox or the driver didn't know how to drive stick lol.
The gearbox in the Venom is a Ricardo, same unit used it the Ford GT. It's a bulletproof gearbox.
