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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: crowMAW on December 02, 2005, 09:50:28 PM
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Big deal, right? But it's a car!
Jeremy Clarkson
Bugatti Veyron (http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-1890873_1,00.html)
"It makes even the Enzo and the Porsche Carrera GT feel slow and pointless."
Model Bugatti Veyron 16.4
Engine 7993cc, 16 cylinders in a W
Power 1001bhp @ 6000rpm
Torque 922 lb ft @ 2200rpm
Transmission 7-speed DSG, manual and auto
Fuel 11.7mpg (combined)
Acceleration 0-62mph: 2.5sec
Top speed 253mph
Price £810,345
Rating Five stars
Verdict Deserves 12 stars. Simply as good — and as fast — as it gets
(http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,246576,00.jpg)
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That's some serious power, but that is also some serious money.
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R.I.P. Here lies the McLaren F1
Clarkson though I hate that guy.
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Clarkson is ass, and that whale is overrated. Laughed my bellybutton off watching it spin at 120mph at Laguna Seca. McLaren would make short work of it on a race track.
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250 mph ! I hit 280 KM/H once in a big Ford Cobra on a long ,straight, flat stretch of road.
Front end got all light and floaty, steering allmost non existant.
Nearly had to change shorts.....I cant imagine what 250 Mile an hour would be like on wheels.
Whats that? 420 odd km/h?
(http://hellcity.candysweet.com/cars_big_fave08.jpg)
good excuse to throw in a piccie of my favourite Aussie muscle car.
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Laguna Seca is one horrid track...
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I would love to drive a few laps at Laguna, I think the corkscrew would be wild :)
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Was a good show on Speed about the making of the car. The technology involved, stuff like panels opening and closing to allow not overheating from citydriving to less drag for high speed.
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Originally posted by crowMAW
(http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,246576,00.jpg)
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.
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Clarkson is funny as hell! This is one of his better articles too.
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Originally posted by Bluedog
250 mph ! I hit 280 KM/H once in a big Ford Cobra on a long ,straight, flat stretch of road.
Front end got all light and floaty, steering allmost non existant.
Nearly had to change shorts.....I cant imagine what 250 Mile an hour would be like on wheels.
Whats that? 420 odd km/h?
(http://hellcity.candysweet.com/cars_big_fave08.jpg)
good excuse to throw in a piccie of my favourite Aussie muscle car.
My SVO felt very comfortable at 140 mph, and a friend's car with a hotter engine and modified turbo topped out at around 190 and was very pleasant to handle. Of course thats in a long straightaway with very little to worry about running into, but it did involve some curves and construction areas. :) The steering was also very mulish at low speeds due to the front wheel settings. I could take my hands off the wheel at 140 and the car would fly straight and true. God I loved driving that thing.
Hated working on it. Expensive b****.
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922 lb ft @ 2200rpm
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Originally posted by moot
922 lb ft @ 2200rpm
It probably weighs less than your computer monitor, knowing these guys...
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hate to pee in your cheerios here... but since when did the hurricane have a max speed of <253 mph?
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This is from Sodas Aircraft page on behalf of the fine Hurricane Mk1....
"Top speed at sea-level is only 253mph (261mph with WEP), increasing to ~320mph @ 16K."
And i can vouch for lots of GVs timidly running instead of staying to fight!! Dweebs :).
Edit: just did some testing in TA: Top speed at sea level 252 mph, 260 mph(with WEP).
A quick google showed no info on top speed at sea level. Maybe someone can dig up reliable sources?
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My pet orangutan on vodka could do better with some blueprint paper and crayolas.
Anyone know what happened to the Cerbera Speed12?
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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".
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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.
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GTR 0-100-0 record
http://www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=100&nr=1
http://www.pistonheads.tv/redirect.asp?id=334
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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.:aok
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Originally posted by Bluedog
(http://hellcity.candysweet.com/cars_big_fave08.jpg)
good excuse to throw in a piccie of my favourite Aussie muscle car.
[aussie voice]
THE LAST OF THE V8 INTERCEPTORS!
[/aussie voice]
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£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:
(http://www.stebbens.org/alan/flying/Airplanes/lancair_turbo_large02.jpg)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Americans ...
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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
(http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/interceptor/images/cots/Lineup2.jpg)
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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
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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:
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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
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That kinda money...Id rather have this
(http://www.avtechgroup.com/images/photogallery/large_97.jpg)
(http://www.avtechgroup.com/images/photogallery/large_98.jpg)
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Originally posted by LePaul
That kinda money...Id rather have this
(http://www.avtechgroup.com/images/photogallery/large_97.jpg)
Gotta agree with that! But you know, if I have the money to own and operate that...then I could afford them both! :D
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Originally posted by crowMAW
Gotta agree with that! But you know, if I have the money to own and operate that...then I could afford them both! :D
DING DING DING!
people do not realise the cost associated with exotic aircraft.
I love to hear people say that if they won 5 million they'd build a huge million dollar house and buy a Corsair (and fly the crap outta it) and some fancy car and boat, and live the good life.
That reality sure would not last long.
Big Arse home 1 million,
taxes, insurance, and upkeep about 100k / year
Total 1100k
A good Corsair is going to run you 1.6 million
sales tax avg 8% (128k)
avg annual (10k)
avg fuel and oil bill (for flying a crap load 150 hours) 50k
Insurance (180k/year)
Maintenance for a year (10k)
Tires (5k/year)
Engine/Prop Fund (20k/year)
Total 1993k
Awesome Car (using one in article) 1.5 million
insurance, taxes, maintenance, and fuel 150k
Total 1650k
That leaves you with about 150k and I did not mention a boat.
Guess you are gonna buy the bassboat, and don't forget to get a better job to support the beasts you now own.
Oh, and almost forgot, the IRS just seized everything because you did not pay the taxes on the 5 million lotto winnings!